Advanced Pharmacist Medicines Safety | Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 23 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £53,755 - £60,504 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 July 2025 |
| Location: | Liverpool, L8 7SS |
| Company: | Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7269597/159-LWH-132-25 |
Summary
Great things are happening in our Hospital Pharmacy Services across University Hospitals Liverpool Group (UHLG). UHLG is one of largest and most complex NHS organisations in the UK, serving a large, diverse and deprived population.
Following a successful business case, we’re expanding our services at Liverpool Women’s Hospital (LWH) – and we’re thrilled to offer several new roles to support our passionate and dedicated pharmacy team.
We are looking for a dynamic and forward-thinking pharmacist to work with our medication safety officer to lead the medicines safety programme at the Liverpool Women’s Hospital.
This role is ideally suited to candidates with a passion for medicines safety who want to grow in a leadership role. The successful candidate must have strong interpersonal skills, the desire to network and collaborate, together with the ability to inspire a team towards continuous improvement.
Do you have an enquiring mind and a knowledge of system-based approaches to incident investigation? Join us to make medicines use safer at Liverpool Women’s Hospital.
The post holder, along with the Lead Pharmacist for Transformation and Medicines Safety (Medicines Safety Officer), support the development, delivery, monitoring and optimisation of the trust-wide medication safety agenda and improvement plans.
They will facilitate the reporting, review and investigation of medication errors, near-misses, issues and risks. They will also identify medicines-related themes and trends from incident and other available data and develop system-based action plans and risk reduction strategies. They will also facilitate organisational learning and improvement following medication incidents.
They will develop communications and share learning from medication errors across the organisation and wider safety network and organisational interfaces.
Liverpool Women’s NHS FT became part ofNHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group (UHLG)in November 2024, following the coming together with Liverpool University Hospitals NHS FT. UHLG was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide to our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues who are dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond. For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, UHLG is also their local NHS, providing general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
At Liverpool Women’s Hospital, each year we deliver approximately 7,500 babies, carry out around 50,000 gynaecological inpatient and outpatient procedures, care for over 1,000 poorly and premature newborns, perform around 1,000 IVF cycles, and conduct over 4,000 genetic appointments.
We believe that this, along with a strong dedication to research and innovation, makes us the specialist health provider of choice in Europe for women, babies and families.
For roles at Liverpool University Hospitals, visit theircareers page.
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Act as the nominated deputy for the Trust Medication Safety Officer and fulfil the requirements of the role in line with national guidance including the National Patient Safety Alert; NHS/PSA/D/2014/005.
Collaborate with the Medication Safety Officer, Chief Pharmacist, Clinical Lead for Medicines Safety, the Medicines Safety matron and the pharmacy Senior Leadership Team to develop, implement and maintain effective medicines safety strategies, policies and improvement plans (Medicines Safety Improvement Plan).
Be a designated lead contact for the Trust for the reporting and investigation of medicines-related incidents, issues and concerns.
Oversee and analyse the reporting of medication incidents and near-misses within the Trust incident reporting system and to ensure appropriate and proportionate level of investigations/reviews are undertaken.
Provide pharmacist and medicines safety representation and expert input at serious incident investigation panel meetings and other incidents requiring high level of investigation within the Trust; assisting or leading (where appropriate) the investigation and development and implementation of the improvement plan.
For full details, please refer to the attached job description
This advert closes on Sunday 6 Jul 2025