Job summary
- Main area
- Medicines Management
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 9 months (Maternity leave cover ending 30th September 2026)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (take part in the EPMA on-call rota)
- Job ref
- 292-7410498-CSS
- Employer
- The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
- Town
- Harlow
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 per annum, plus 5% high cost area supplement
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Lead Nurse for Medicines Safety
NHS AfC: Band 8a
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.
Our values
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) promise to our patients, as identified by our three values which will contribute to improving our patients’ experiences, is:
Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts.
Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both.
Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care.
Job overview
We are looking for a senior nurse with a keen interest in medicines safety to act as the liaison between pharmacy and nursing teams on all aspects relating to medicines management.
The post holder will work closely with the electronic prescribing team to help audit and implement medication related policies.
Main duties of the job
To provide leadership, support and training at ward/department level to nursing, medical and pharmacy staff to improve all aspects of medicines management and optimisation. This will include developing strategies to minimise medicine omissions, improving controlled drug record keeping at ward/department level, leading on and supporting safe medication practice.
Working for our organisation
Our Organisation
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.
We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop’s Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.
Our Values
The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:
Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts
Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both
Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care
The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job description and person specification for the full job details. This is available to download at any time.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse (part 1 Register)
- Educated to Masters degree level or equivalent experience in nursing
Desirable criteria
- Independent prescriber status or ability to complete course leading to independent prescribing qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial post registration experience as a practising clinical nurse. Experience of dealing with highly complex clinical issues which require the analysis of information from a range of sources, which may not be, in agreement.
- Experience of dealing with a wide variety and grade of hospital staff (including senior medical and managerial staff) on a regular and ongoing basis
- Experience of undertaking specific project based and audit work
- Wide experience in the use of computers and data analysis and reporting
- Up to date knowledge of clinical governance and experience in risk management process in relation to incidents
- Ability to undertake clinical incident investigations and develop action plans to prevent reoccurrence
- Knowledge and understanding of medicines legislation
Desirable criteria
- Completion of teaching and assessment programme
- Experience in training, assessing, supervising and monitoring staff
- Understanding the importance of monitoring quality of service
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to influence prescribing practice to promote medicines optimisation
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- John Biddulph
- Job title
- Chief Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01279 827349
- Additional information
Steven De-Giovanni, Deputy Chief Pharmacist and Medication Safety Officer.
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