Medicines Governance Officer

Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

The Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust is expanding its Pharmacy Medicines Governance team and seeks a detail-oriented governance officer. This role focuses on supporting medicines safety and governance, contributing to patient safety initiatives and offering administrative support for effective governance.

Qualifications

• Detail oriented and professional governance officer.
• Experience in health-related governance roles is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Maintain active role in office management and governance support.
• Facilitate meetings and coordinate production of documents.
• Minute specified meetings to accurately record decisions.

Skills

Detail oriented

Organized

Professionalism

Job description

Great things are happening in our Hospital Pharmacy Services across University Hospitals Liverpool Group (UHLG). UHLG is one of largest and most complex NHS organisations in the UK, serving a large, diverse and deprived population.

Following a successful business case, we’re expanding our services at Liverpool Women’s Hospital (LWH) – and we’re thrilled to offer several new roles to support our passionate and dedicated pharmacy teams across UHLG.

We are looking for a detail orientated, organised and professional governance officer to support our medicines safety, optimisation and pharmacy governance workstreams.

Are you passionate about driving forward improved patient safety and providing expert support to our medicines governance?

The growing Pharmacy Medicines Governance team is friendly, supportive, and patient safety is at the heart of everything we do. The Pharmacy Department is large, innovative, and ever developing with lots of opportunities to progress.

This is a great time to join the Pharmacy and wider Medicines Governance Team at UHLG with our ambition to deliver great care as we continue our improvement journey and partnership working for the benefits of the patients of Liverpool and beyond.

The post holder will work as part of the Medicines Safety, Optimisation and Pharmacy Governance team to provide high quality support and facilitate and maintain administrative arrangements and procedures for the sound corporate governance of the Trust.

The Post Holder Will Also

• Maintain an active role in supporting office management ensuring requirements are sufficiently met.
• Act as a point of contact as part of the Medicines Safety, Optimisation and Pharmacy Governance team.
• Facilitate meetings within the Medicines Safety, Optimisation and Pharmacy Governance team.
• Coordinate the production of papers, ensuring timely distribution of agendas and supporting papers for internal and external stakeholders.
• Attend and minute specified meetings and accurately and appropriately record discussions and decisions taken.
  
  

Liverpool Women’s NHS FT became part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group (UHLG) in November 2024, following the coming together with Liverpool University Hospitals NHS FT. UHLG was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide to our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues who are dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond. For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, UHLG is also their local NHS, providing general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

At Liverpool Women’s Hospital, each year we deliver approximately 7,500 babies, carry out around 50,000 gynaecological inpatient and outpatient procedures, care for over 1,000 poorly and premature newborns, perform around 1,000 IVF cycles, and conduct over 4,000 genetic appointments.

We believe that this, along with a strong dedication to research and innovation, makes us the specialist health provider of choice in Europe for women, babies and families.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jennifer Bellis Job title: Lead Pharmacist for Medicines Optimisation Email address: [e-mail]

If you have any questions then please contact Dr Jenny Bellis, Lead Pharmacist for Medicines Optimisation on 0151 706 2768 or Paul Skipper, Deputy Chief Pharmacist - Governance & Medicines Safety on 0151 706 2137.