Medication Safety Specialist Pharmacist

King's College Hospital; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare trust in the UK is seeking a passionate and experienced pharmacist to join the Medication Safety Team. The role involves leading medication safety initiatives, promoting safe medication practices, and collaborating with healthcare professionals. Ideal candidates should have a pharmacy degree, strong communication skills, and a commitment to patient safety. Join us in making a lasting difference to patients and the community.

Qualifications

• Passionate about patient safety with experience in Medication Safety.
• Understanding of the NHS Patient Safety Strategy.
• Experience in human factors ergonomics and improvement science.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Medication Safety agenda within the Trust.
• Promote safe medication use across the organization.
• Coordinate responses to safety events.

Skills

Empathy

Communication

Collaboration

Digital literacy

Project management

Education

Pharmacy Degree

Job description

Many opportunities are available for personal and professional development as you will work with colleagues and patients across the Trust to develop and implement improvement initiatives and provide risk and safety expertise. There will also be opportunity to develop and implement Trust policies and guidelines, promote safe medicines use and practice and represent the Medication Safety and Pharmacy teams locally, regionally and nationally. The post holder will work as part of the multidisciplinary Medication Safety Team to lead, provide and develop specialist Medication Safety services to the Trust.

Responsibilities

• To take a leadership role in developing, delivering and monitoring the Trust's Medication Safety agenda.
• To act as a specialist role-model and provide expertise in Medication Safety across the Trust.
• To promote and facilitate safe medication use and practice.
• To develop, assess and monitor the implementation of local and national safety guidance.
• To implement change to reduce the risk of preventable harm caused by medications.
• To facilitate learning from patient safety insights including by coordinating and leading responses to safety events.
• To promote and drive a positive safety culture with regard to medicines use and practice.
• To provide education and training to healthcare professionals within and outside the Trust.
• To participate in practice and clinical research and audit.
• To deputise for Consultant Pharmacist Medication Safety.

About the role

We are seeking a motivated and experienced pharmacist who is passionate about patient safety to join the King's Medication Safety Team. This is a fantastic opportunity to deliver local and national medication safety priorities across the organisation working in our team of pharmacist and nurse medication safety specialists. Our team is in an exciting position at the centre of the patient safety and digital medicines management work happening in the Trust right now.

Success in this post will require

• Empathy and curiosity
• Great communication and collaboration skills
• Understanding the NHS Patient Safety Strategy and practical experience of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework
• Experience and/or ready to further develop skills in human factors ergonomics, improvement and implementation sciences and project management
• Digital literacy and data management skills
• Ability to be agile to adapt to changing priorities, partnerships and demands

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust's strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD: Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King's to another level.

We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.

King's is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone's contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust's carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.