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Medicine Safety & Governance Pharmacy Technician | London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 05 March 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £42,939 - £50,697 per annum including HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 April 2025 |
| Location: | Harrow, HA1 3UJ |
| Company: | London North West Healthcare NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6982254/337-NP-8634DG |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has been created at LNWUHT for an enthusiastic pharmacy technician to work closely with the Medication Safety Officer & Governance Support Pharmacist. The post holder must have a keen interest in medication safety, good communication skills with strong attention to detail.
The post holder will support and lead on key medication safety workstreams to continuously improve the Governance and Medication Safety agenda across the organisation.
The post holder will champion on promoting the safe use of medicines, supporting the investigation, and learning from medication related incidents and sharing good practice. The post holder will be involved in audits and teaching of medicines safety.
• Work alongside the Medication Safety Officer & Governance Support Pharmacist to lead the Medicines Safety agenda for the Trust, both local and national medication safety initiatives.
• Identify, promote and improve the safe use of medicines across the organisation.
• Work in collaboration with other healthcare professionals to promote reporting and prompt investigations of medication incidents.
• Review medication incidents reported to ensure correct completion of data fields to improve the quality of reports and identify trends or themes.
• Assist in investigation of incidents, Serious Incidents and Never Events reported in the Trust.
• Help with sharing learning from medication incidents across the trust and implement system changes to improve medication safety.
• Assist in the coordination and completion of audits and corresponding action plans and monitoring compliance to agreed actions.
• Attend and contribute to relevant meetings.
• Assist with completing actions from national medication related Patient Safety Alerts.
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We run major acute services at:
• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
To view the main responsibility, please see the attached the job Description and Person Specification.
This advert closes on Wednesday 19 Mar 2025