Senior Clinical Pharmacist – Risk and Medicines Safety Officer - Band 8a
Permanent
Full time 37.5 hours per week
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced pharmacist to join the Pharmacy Team to provide specialist medicines related to risk and medicines safety.
This Senior Clinical Pharmacist will work as the Trust Medicines Safety Officer and act as an expert and advisor to colleagues across the Trust in relation to the risks associated with medication.
You will be a team player with a flair for communication, you will have good problem solving skills and an approachable, supportive nature. You will be required to work in a pressurised environment and will be expected to manage your own workload and timetable effectively. This is an excellent opportunity to further develop your own skills as an expert within the Pharmacy Team.
We are looking for a motivated, enthusiastic and skilled clinical pharmacist, with a keen interest in reducing risk associated with medicines use to further enhance our service.
For further information or an informal chat, please contact:
Lauren Nichol on 01204 390555 or email lauren.nichol@boltonft.nhs.uk or Ribal Ahmed, Current MSO post holder on 01204 390555 or email ribal.ahmed@boltonft.nhs.uk
The postholder will:
• Act as the Medication Safety Officer, fulfilling the role described by NHS England
• Oversee the investigation of medicines related incidents and complaints by leading the medication safety team by exploring and implementing ways of minimising the risk of future reoccurrence to staff and patients.
• Proactively identifying medication risk prior to patient harm through innovatively developing local and trust wide action plans
• Work with other Senior Pharmacists to ensure that the whole team delivers a consistent level of safe pharmaceutical care and actively seeks to improve pharmacy services
• Participate in relevant local, regional and national medicine safety networks ensuring the communication of information and shared learning of patient safety incidents
• Review maintain and update the departmental Risk Register and provide assistance into Trust wide medication risks
• Coordinate the review of medicines related clinical incidents and implement innovate action plans to mitigate risk and promote learning as NHS England’s Patient Safety Incident Response framework (PSIRF)
• To act as the medicines safety expert in local departmental meetings and Trust wide committees including medicines safety, medical gases, divisional governance and drugs and therapeutics
• Promote and foster a safe working environment for shared learning through incident reporting
Do you want to work at a trust which is at the heart of the Greater Manchester health and social care network – but that is as friendly as a district general hospital or local health centre? Are you looking for a place to work that is classed amongst the best in the region for several of the services it provides – but without having to travel into the city centre every day? Are you interested in some of the best training opportunities in the North West, with leading consultants in a trust developing its research portfolio – but with a management team who value the personal approach? Then look no further than Bolton NHS Foundation Trust. Situated in a borough of 275,000 people, the Trust is part of the expanding ‘Northern Powerhouse’.
For further information regarding the key responsibilities of this role please see the attached job description. If you have any further questions regarding this role please do not hesitate to contact us via the information below.
This advert closes on Tuesday 18 Jun 2024
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