Principal Pharmacist Clinical Effectiveness & Medication Safety
Job Description
Job summary
To lead on the clinical effectiveness of Pharmacy services, including governance, medication safety and electronic prescribing.
To act as the Trust's Medication Safety Officer. To support local medication error reporting and learning and act as the main contact for NHS England and MHRA.
Main duties of the job
To be the designated Medication Safety Officer (MSO) for the Trust.To improve the reporting and learning from medication incidents and errors, both within the organisation and outside.To oversee the investigation of all medication related incidents. To provide support for investigators of medication related incidents and, where appropriate, request the provision of a root cause analysis (RCA) report.To work closely with the pharmacy governance lead on all aspects of patient safety relating to medication usage.To drive improvements in data quality from Trust Safeguard reporting system for local and national learning. To report on these to the appropriate national/local body as required.To liaise with, and produce information and reports for, appropriate internal and external bodies such as MHRA and NHSE.To develop, monitor and implement the Trust strategy around medication safety through clinical leadership, taking the lead role in setting the agenda and workplan of the Safe Medication Practice group and acting as vice-chair.To drive change and improvement within the Trust regarding the safe usage of medicines, based on intelligence and investigation from medication incidents, and national benchmarking and learning.
About us
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust is an integrated Trust and the only provider of NHS acute care in Walsall, serving a population of 286,700, providing inpatient and outpatient services at the Manor Hospital as well as a wide range of services in the community. Walsall Manor houses the full range of district general hospital services under one roof. The £170 million development was completed in 2010 and the continued upgrading of existing areas ensures the Trust now has a state-of-the-art Critical Care Unit, Neonatal Unit, Obstetric Theatre, and Integrated Assessment Unit facilities. Work is also well underway on its multi-million pound new Urgent and Emergency Care Centre which will house a new Emergency Department (including Children's Emergency Department), co-located Paediatric Assessment Unit, Acute Medical Unit and Urgent Care Centre. This is scheduled for completion this year.
Job responsibilities
To lead on the clinical effectiveness of Pharmacy services, including governance, medication safety and electronic prescribing.
To act as the Trusts Medication Safety Officer. To support local medication error reporting and learning and act as the main contact for NHS England and MHRA.
To lead on the development and delivery of effective clinical governance relating to medication usage and medication safety initiatives across the Trust. Within the Pharmacy management Team, to contribute to the planning and implementation of change in Pharmacy services or the way they are delivered.
To be responsible for leading the clinical pharmacy service to a division, ensuring that the service is provided at the highest possible standard within the available resources.
To develop the service to meet the needs of patients and clinical specialties within the Division.
To advise on the management of drug expenditure within the Division to ensure optimisation of medicines usage.
To lead on and co-ordinate clinical or practice research and audit within Pharmacy. To lead on teaching across the Trust relating to medication usage and clinical pharmacy.
Support the education and training of pharmacists.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters Degree in Pharmacy
- Registered with the GPhC
- Evidence of commitment to CPD
- Registered independent prescriber
- Postgraduate qualifications in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience as a qualified hospital Pharmacist Management experience at band 8a level or above
skills and knowledge
Essential
- Able to work as part of a team.
- Evidence of leadership skills/abilities
- Ability to manage equipment resources within the Pharmacy Department.
- To be able to manage own service within the given financial/staffing constraints.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Ability to confer complex information to clinical staff and patients.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
Address
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
Moat Road
Walsall
WS2 9PS
