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Medicines Governance and Safety Pharmacist
| Posting date: | 27 March 2025 |
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| Salary: | £53,755.00 to £60,504.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £53755.00 - £60504.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 April 2025 |
| Location: | Preston, PR1 8XJ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | D9125-25-0020 |
Summary
To lead, deliver, develop, and evaluate specialist medicine safety programs across general practice. To assess and review medicine safety within general practice to ensure services are safe, equitable and appropriate. To develop and monitor standards of medicine safety practice across primary care, in line with national and local guidance. To provide clinical pharmacy and governance support to primary care to investigate and manage incidents. To produce regular reports, investigate incidents, and ensure learning is shared. To co-ordinate and undertake audits of all aspects of medicines safety processes and disseminate findings. To analyse national and local patient safety, medical and pharmaceutical alerts, including Central Alerting System (CAS) alerts from MHRA, for dissemination and action. To manage medicine incident reporting including dissemination of lessons learnt from incident investigations. To identify medicine safety issues from national guidance and embed into clinical practice. To deputise as the organisational link with the MHRA and NHSE to receive essential communications and escalate concerns related to the safe use of medicines. To implement local actions to improve medicine safety which align with national safety initiatives, including national patient safety alerts. To be an active member of the Medicines Safety Committee and Medicines Safety Task and Finish Group to represent safe use of medicines. Support with medicine safety areas including Antimicrobial Stewardship, opioids and controlled drugs. 1 1