Medicines Management Governance Advanced Clinical Manager | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 09 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £50,952 - £57,349 Per Annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 June 2024 |
| Location: | Warrington, WA2 8WA |
| Company: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6283786/350-TWS6283786 |
Summary
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
As part of an organisational change, we have recruited a number of experienced clinicians to roles within our newly formed medicines management governance team with drive and aptitude to become part of a dynamic and developing Medicines Management Team. We are committed to developing and training our staff and you will work in a supportive environment with training opportunities, to build on your foundation skills and develop your expertise. This post is open to all registered healthcare professional staff who meet the essential criteria.
You will join our dynamic, Trust wide medicines management governance team in providing medicines optimisation, quality improvement and support safe use of medicines across the Trust.
You will have the opportunity to develop your practice in a wide range of clinical areas in a large organisation but as part of smaller supportive medicines management team.
You will be supported in any ongoing studies relevant to the role.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
The Trust has invested in expanding the medicines safety and governance team to improve the reporting and learning from medication incidents across the Trust, support the regional and national network of medicines safety professionals, ensure compliance with MHRA requirements and statutory standards.
You will be and experienced registered health care professional, joining the medicines management governance team consisting of experienced clinicians. You will be expected to work as part of the multidisciplinary team to deliver support for the management of medicines governance issues in both mental health and community care services within the Trust.
You will be expected to co-ordinate complex work plans, complete audits, develop training, write reports; and lead meetings that are relevant to your role.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together.
We call this continuous improvement in quality and cost, ‘striving for perfect care’. Our aim is to play a full part in the health and social care economies we serve, by promoting and driving greater integration between mental and physical health and social care.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
1. To participate in the delivery of highly specialist clinical pharmaceutical and medical supply services, ensuring that services meet the standards set by the General Pharmaceutical Council
and relevant legislation.
2. To deputise for the Medicines Optimisation and Governance Lead at relevant trust-wide multidisciplinary meetings, forums, and Committees.
3. To be a member of, and represent the medicines management team at, the trust-wide multidisciplinary meetings, forums, and Committees relevant to role.
4. To ensure the safe, appropriate, and effective use of medicines across the primary careservices.
5. To develop and support the implementation of medicine optimisation and quality strategy across teams.
6. To support primary care service in the implementation of any service changes in relation to medicine optimisation and quality strategy.
7. To liaise with operational and clinical staff in primary care services on all aspects of medicines management governance and quality.
8. To interpret national guidance, and lead the development of Medicine management strategies, policy and guidance comply with national/local targets or directives.
9. To develop, monitor implement audits in line with the medicines management audit programme performance indicators and quality schedules for primary care Services and support teams in the
delivery of action plans following audits.
10. To monitor and report on medicines management performance indicators and qualityschedules
for primary care health services.
11. To actively initiate and take part in practice research relevant to area of work.
12. To ensure appropriate review of prescribing of services, in line with the relevant formularies and clinical guidelines and the medicine optimisation and quality strategy.
13. To lead on, and provide expert support advice regarding, medications errors and incidents
involving patients, safe and effective storage of medicines within primary care services, and support review and learning where required as follow up. 14. Please see JD for more information.
This advert closes on Monday 20 May 2024