Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will:

Support the work of the Medicines Safety Officer and Medicines Governance Advisor in the promotion of safe medication practices across the organisation.

-        Work together with partners such as the Trust Assurance Team and the Health and Safety team to ensure that the department is adhering to the Trust requirements

-       Support the Medicines Safety Officer and Medicines Governance Advisor in  writing reports and developing dashboards to provide clear evidence of compliance and escalation where appropriate.

Support and provide training to the pharmacy team on incident reporting, incident management, risk management and health and safety practices. 

Lead on Health and Safety within the department advising on all aspects of Health and Safety including fire, first aid, working with equipment and Control of Substances Hazardous to Health.

Ensure all mandatory reporting on Health and Safety using approved audit tools for the Pharmacy is completed timely and reported to the pharmacy quality teams and to the Trust.

Compile reports on all aspects of pharmacy governance and medicines management.

Co-ordinate the production and review of pharmacy SOPs and policies and write any relating to risk management and governance; that may impact in the wider Trust. Maintain the departmental SOP register.

Lead on pharmacy department governance SOPs

To advise and act upon any actions on temperature control monitoring systems across the department and wards, liaising with the pharmacy informatics team and the pharmacy staff and the nursing staff.

Support with the investigating and responding to patient complaints.  

Medicines Safety

Supports and deputises for the designated Medication Safety Officer and Medicines Governance Advisor for the Trust to manage reported incidents, follow them up and present data on KPIs and trending patterns. Includes assessments for duty of candour. 

Produce routine and ad hoc reports for reporting to pharmacy, divisional teams, Trust wide or ready for external visits such as CQC or MHRA, ensuring the quality of data is validated.

Promotes all staff to improve the reporting and learning from medication related incidents and errors both inside and outside of the Trust.

Recommends actions to be taken for improvements following on from incidents including the training and education to be delivered to multi- disciplinary groups for the purpose of patient safety and best practice.

Supports the implementation of changes in practice and processes regarding the safe use of medicines based on national benchmarking and learning.

Communicates and advises on up-to-date information from external bodies such as MHRA and NHSE on best practices on safe usage of medicines, ensuring information is documented.

Carry out medicines related audits as required and support with developing action plans.

To support in the management of drug recalls and alerts, ensuring all actions are complete and documented.

Work closely with all healthcare professionals including medical and nursing staff groups and pharmacy staff to ensure the highest standards possible are achieved for medication safety across the organisation.