Job summary
- Main area
- Medicines Safety
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 321-CSS-6238543-B8a
- Employer
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- John Radcliffe Hospital
- Town
- Oxford
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Advanced Pharmacist Medicines Safety
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Many of our recruitment programmes use Value Based Interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families. For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values
Job overview
In this post, you will be a key member of the medicines safety team, involved in dynamic workstreams focused on optimising and improving the safe use of medicines throughout the trust. This role provides an opportunity to take a leadership role in the Medicines Safety team.
The role provides an opportunity to expand your expertise and skillset, to be involved in service development or research and to put your management and leadership skills into action in a supportive setting. The post holder should maintain high standards of pharmaceutical care, ensure timely, effective, communication with both the multi-disciplinary clinical teams and collaborators.
Main duties of the job
The main duties of the job are active involvement in learning from incidents and risks, measuring and monitoring safety to ensure the safest use of medicines, optimising processes and systems and engaging all staff in the medicine safety agenda.
Working for our organisation
OUHNHSFT is part of the acclaimed Shelford Group and is one of the largest teaching trusts in the UK. Our pharmacy department contains around 400 multidisciplinary healthcare staff.
The medicines safety team is a multi-disciplinary team who aim to promote the safe use of medicines across the trust to improve safety for all our patients and help equip staff with the knowledge and expertise they need to use medicines safely.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Main responsibilities
- To promote the safe use of medicines in accordance with legislation, guidance and evidence based best practice.
- To work with corporate and divisional colleagues to ensure medication risks are identified, assessed and risk reduction measures put in place and monitored.
- To promote a multidisciplinary approach to medicines safety and that all healthcare professionals are trained and competent in safe medicines use
- To act as a mentor and role model and be a source of expert medication safety practice and to raise the profile and promote sharing and learning with colleagues and patients locally.
- To have a leadership role in the design and implementation of smart infusion pumps and dose error reduction software.
- To promote learning and sharing of experiences in risk reduction and improvement methodologies in relation to medicines safety.
- To participate in audit, research and quality improvement to support medicines safety
- To use innovation to support effective patient outcomes, experience, improve cost effectiveness and in particular to support safety improvement.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree in Pharmacy (Masters) or equivalent
- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Post-Graduate Clinical Pharmacy Diploma or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or Patient Safety (or equivalent)
- Education and training experience
- Patient safety or human Factors training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Broad clinical pharmacy provision in a number of different clinical areas or sectors.
- Delivering quality improvements and change management
- Risk management and investigation of incidents
Desirable criteria
- Line management / Leading a team
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Seetal Puaar
- Job title
- Medicines Safety Consultant Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865221930
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