Senior Pharmacist — Medication Safety & Governance

Bedfordshire Hospitals; Luton; On-site; GBP 58,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Specialist Pharmacist in Medication Safety & Governance at NHS AfC Band 8a for Luton/Dunstable sites. The post is a permanent, full-time role with 37.5 hours per week and includes late, weekend and on-call commitments.

You will join the Medicines Use, Safety, Governance and Quality team to provide expert clinical input across the Trust, driving quality improvement, governance and service development while supporting safe, evidence-based

Qualifications

• Pharmacy degree (Masters level) and GPhC registration.
• Post graduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent.
• Post graduate Masters in Pharmacy and ongoing professional development.
• Member of the RPS and QSIR training or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Support the Principal Pharmacist – Medication Safety and Governance to improve incident reporting and learning within the Trust and coordinating, monitoring and auditing the required actions to ensure compliance with Care Quality Commission criteria.
• Actively support the Principal Pharmacist – Medication Safety and Governance to improve medication safety within the trust and to ensure good clinical governance, audit and risk management within medicines management activities.
• Plan, develop, coordinate and audit the impact of medicines safety initiatives across the Trust. This will involve close working with other members of the multidisciplinary patient safety team.
• Be a key member of the Pharmacy Clinical Governance Meetings, Pharmacy Weekly and Monthly incident Meetings.
• Provide support and advice on medicines related Patient safety incident response framework (PSIRF) actions, ensuring any agreed plans or areas of concern are fully integrated into the overall Quality Management System within Pharmacy.
• Support the running of the Trust Medicines Safety Committee (MSC), including reporting output of designated subgroups; to produce Trust wide medicines safety communication and to assist with the Trust PSIRF agenda work streams.

Skills

Organised work planning

Clinical literature review

Influence professionals

Training & mentoring

Medicines safety enthusiasm

Education

Pharmacy Masters

GPhC registration

Clinical Pharmacy Diploma

Masters in Pharmacy

RPS member

MIFRPS (Stage 1)

QSIR training

Job description

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Specialist Pharmacist in Medication Safety & Governance at NHS AfC Band 8a for Luton/Dunstable sites. The post is a permanent, full-time role with 37.5 hours per week and includes late, weekend and on-call commitments.

You will join the Medicines Use, Safety, Governance and Quality team to provide expert clinical input across the Trust, driving quality improvement, governance and service development while supporting safe, evidence-based