Medicines Safety Officer and Learning Disability Pharmacist
| Posting date: | 08 April 2026 |
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| Salary: | £57,528.00 to £64,750.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £57528.00 - £64750.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 April 2026 |
| Location: | Chelmsford, CM1 3AG |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9364-26-0290 |
Summary
The role requires a competent professional with the clinical and leadership skills needed to manage the pharmacy services for learning disability and medicines safety The post-holder will provide professional leadership for a specific aspect of pharmacy services and work collaboratively, as part of the Trusts pharmacy senior management team, to ensure that service needs are met across all geographic and functional areas of mental health services. They will work with clinical and operational leaders outside the department in their specific area of clinical and/or operational practice. The post-holder will support the Chief Pharmacist and Deputy Chief Pharmacist in the delivery of the vision and priorities for the pharmacy department and work alongside colleagues to ensure patient centred services are provided by a competent and flexible pharmacy workforce. They will promote the safe use of medicines across the Trust. To actively contribute to, and participate in, the provision and development of pharmaceutical services within the Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, as part of the Trusts pharmacy and medicines management team. To promote the safe use of medicines across the Trust, be the named designated Medication Safety Officer on behalf of the Chief Pharmacist, and be an active member of the local and national Medication Safety Networks. To organise and manage the activities of pharmacy staff providing services to learning disability services and act as the first point of contact with operational management for these services. To provide support to the Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust Business Unit in relation to learning disability services on medicines optimisation issues. To take responsibility for reviewing all medication incidents to ensure data quality for local and national learning. Investigate medication incidents, and improve the reporting and learning from these incidents. Use incident reports, clinical audits and other local intelligence to identify trends and themes in the medication incidents that occur in the organisation. To deputise for the Deputy Chief Pharmacist as required. To lead the development and delivery of trust-wide initiatives and projects relating to medicines management as requested by the Deputy Chief Pharmacist or Chief Pharmacist. To work collaboratively with pharmacy colleagues to ensure that the needs of the organisation can be met, including participating in patient-facing clinical pharmacy services, in response to service demand. To support and participate in clinical audit, in particularly those related to medicines safety.