Senior Technician - Medicines Safety & Governance

Wye Valley Nhs Trust; Hereford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in Hereford is seeking a dedicated professional to promote medication safety and coordinate auditing processes. The role involves managing the security and supply of FP10 prescriptions and engaging with healthcare professionals to advance safety practices. As part of a progressive organization, you'll join a team committed to providing high-quality care and ensuring the well-being of the community. Embrace an opportunity to work in a beautiful rural location while making a significant impact.

Qualifications

• Experience in promoting medication incident reporting.
• Ability to coordinate medication audits and ensure compliance with national standards.
• Skills in managing security and supply of prescriptions effectively.

Responsibilities

• Promote medication incident reporting across healthcare professionals.
• Produce memos to raise awareness of safety-related incidents.
• Co-ordinate medication audits throughout the Trust.
• Manage security and supply of FP10 prescriptions.
• Work with the Medicines Safety Officer to maintain a network of champions.
• Dispense medications to patients.

Job description

Responsibilities

• Promote medication incident reporting within the Trust across all healthcare professionals.
• Produce memos for Trust-wide circulation to raise awareness of safety-related incidents.
• Co‑ordinate medication audits throughout the Trust, ensuring medications are stored safely and in line with national standards; carry out additional audits related to medication use, some of which can be complex; report data at a high level.
• Manage the security, ordering, supply and issue of FP10 prescriptions for Non‑Medical Prescribers (NMP) and specialty FP10 pads; ensure all issues are controlled in line with Trust policy; maintain systems for recording the full process from order to issue, including audit returns.
• Work with the Medicines Safety Officer (MSO) to help maintain a network of medicines safety champions within Wye Valley NHS Trust and promote this topic with staff.
• Hand‑out medications to patients in the Dispensary; counsel patients where appropriate within the limitations of the role.
• Dispense medication to support workflow through the dispensary.

About Wye Valley NHS Trust

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT, the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, the Trust provides acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and runs Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on‑Wye.

The Trust is progressive and forward‑looking, with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they report it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire. The Trust offers a great work‑life balance and has a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman, states: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”

Our core values – Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence – are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.