Advanced Specialist MH Pharmacist – Medicines Safety Officer
| Posting date: | 15 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | £58,698.00 to £65,095.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £58698.00 - £65095.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 June 2024 |
| Location: | Tooting, SW17 7DJ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9294-24-0432 |
Summary
To participate in Trust incident investigations, prescribing & medicines complaints management and in the preparation & planning for regulatory inspections, as the pharmacy lead for patient safety & experience. To undertake investigation of pharmacy medicines incidents To proactively deliver clinical pharmacy services within an agreed service line, in line with local and national objectives and to support the lead pharmacist with the service line governance and business requirements. To line manage Band 7 clinical pharmacists, including performance appraisal and IPR, in accordance with Trust and departmental policy. To be the lead pharmacist for safe medicines management including safe storage, incident reporting and implementing risk minimisation schemes within the Trust, delivering, developing and evaluating defined areas of safe medicines practice in the pharmacy department and/or across the Trust to enable learning from medicines incidents. This will include audit, guideline development, agreement, implementation and evaluation of training programmes to ensure safe use of medicines in line with the objectives agreed with the Lead Pharmacist. To receive and respond to requests for information about medicines error incident reports from the NRLS and the MHRA ensuring compliance with alert action requests and new medicines legislation. To support Trust teams to improve the quality of medicines incident reports before submission to the NRLS. To be an easily identifiable and highly visible presence as the specialist pharmacist who is a resource/link between nursing, pharmacy and other clinical staff and who provides specialist clinical practice in medicines safety and legislation contributing to a high quality, evidence based service. To analyse trends, write, present & raise awareness of reports, including quarterly medicines incident reports and CD occurrence reports To horizon scan, assess and arrange the dissemination of medicines safety communications from NHS England and the MHRA ensure the inclusion of in medicines training packages and in Trust policies e.g. Trust Medicines Code, drug alerts procedure, CAS policy. To serve as a link between the Trust and local and national medication safety initiatives as an active member of the National Medication Safety Network.. To be responsible for updating the Trust Medicines Policy, in line with new legislation, patient safety communications/guidance, learning from incidents and regulatory inspections, after changes have been agreed by the Safe Medication Practice Committee, and to ensure the code is regularly audited. To be the secretary to the Safe Medication Practice Committee (chaired by the Chief Pharmacist) arranging meetings, preparing agendas and taking minutes. To lead and deliver the provision of medication education sessions to patients and carers. To provide specialist advice to medical and nursing staff on the use of medicines, including participation in education and training sessions under the direction of the Lead Pharmacist. To participate in the dispensing and supply of medicines to patients, according to the rota/s. To respond to MI enquiries from staff, patients, neighboring Trusts and commissioners, in a timely manner, according to the rota/s and in accordance with departmental procedures, to ensure compliance with external QA processes. To participate in the Trusts Emergency Duty Pharmacy service, in accordance with the rota To assist with the preparation and implementation of departmental standard operating procedures, and their audit. To provide lectures and tutorials to various non-Trust staff, at the request of the Chief Principal or Deputy Chief Pharmacist. To promote good prescribing practice throughout the Trust, in accordance with the Medicines Formulary. To be a member of the clinical pharmacists MI peer review Group and the Pharmacy medicines management group. Training and Development To undertake mandatory and statutory training as required by Trust policy. To contribute and commit to undertaking an annual Performance Appraisal and Development Review (PADR). To undertake personal development as identified in the Personal Development Plan (PDP). NON-MEDICAL PRESCRIBING WHERE QUALIFIED Responsible for undertaking and fulfilling this role to benefit service user access to treatment. To work alongside and in partnership with medical colleagues in delivering treatment in the most timely and efficient manner. To actively prescribe for service-users once annotated to professional and Trust registers. To actively manage a defined case-load within a specified service where non-medical prescribing will enhance service delivery. To conduct comprehensive service user treatment reviews, which involves a range of assessments and tailored interventions enabling service users to maintain their concordance with prescribed medicines. To actively access CPD opportunities regarding non-medical prescribing via Trust based supervision groups and other appropriate workshops agreed through line manager to maintain competency. To participate in research and audit programmes both locally and nationally which pertain to evaluation of non-medical prescribing and the potential benefits to service users.