Medicines Safety Support Officer
Job overview
An exciting and novel opportunity has arisen to become the Medicines Safety Support Officer within a specialist cancer hospital pharmacy team.
We are seeking a dynamic individual with experience in medicines safety and clinical governance to support our Medicines Safety Officer and drive the medicines safety agenda forward.
This is an exceptionally exciting opportunity for the right individual to join our team to develop and lead on services within the Pharmacy Department, Trust and wider system. The successful candidate will have well developed listening and communication skills as well as the ability to build effective working relationships.You will provide pro-active professional medicines safety support to our clinicians, managers, patients and carers. You will have relevant experience in fields such as clinical audit, trend analysis, effective report writing and demonstrable skills in producing, maintaining and implementing multidisciplinary action plans
The postholder will be based within the pharmacy team and will represent pharmacy services both within the Trust and externally, and be able to work towards Trust, locality and ICB agendas.
Oncology experience is desirable however not essential and we would encourage applications from all individuals with the relevant experience as laid out in the job description. Professional registration is not essential, but may be of benefit for certain role elements.
Main duties of the job
To work with the Medicines Safety Officer (MSO) and divisional clinical governance team in areas of incident management , risk management, clinical audit and effectiveness to support the delivery of an effective, high quality medicines governance and risk management programme across the department and Trust.
To proactively identify medicines safety issues and support the timely review and update of incidents and risk.To co–ordinate, supervise, deliver and contribute to the medicines safety audit programme supporting implementation of outcomes arising from audit.
To deliver and contribute to the education and training strategy for Trust wide staff in relation to medicines safety.
To collect data to support the investigation of medication errors and implement changes to minimise risk both within pharmacy and in the community.
To develop innovative quality improvement projects to improve medicines safety and quality outcomes for our patients.
Analyse individual medicines incidents ensuring categorised correctly and produce monthly incident reports for divisions, specialities, and pharmacy, providing trend reports to appropriate groups and committees
Review and implement medicines policies, propose changes to working practices and procedures.
Support the pharmacy department in the collection and coordination of data for submission towards regulatory inspections e.g. CQC.
Working for our organisation
The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre is one of three specialist cancer centres in England. With 1,800 specialist staff and three sites, we are one of the largest NHS providers of non-surgical cancer treatment. The Trust has a unique multi-site care model serving the 2.4 million population across Cheshire and Merseyside and is consistently rated by patients as one of the best performing hospitals.
Our vision is to not only maintain this level of commitment to excellence but to work with our academic and healthcare partners across the region to ensure care, treatment and patient outcomes continuously improve in the future. We are very proud of all our expert and loyal staff and we welcome people who share the collective aim of delivering excellence in everything that we do.
Our values represent who we are and what we believe in. They define how we act to deliver the best possible care for our patients and shape The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre as a great place to work.
We are -- Kind
- Empowered
- Responsible
- Inclusive
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for detailed responsibilities and standards.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Educated to degree level or equivalent
- Leadership qualification/training or equivalent experiential learning
Knowledge
Essential criteria- Current, relevant knowledge of hospital pharmacy procedures acquired though training, experience and knowledge
- Pharmaceutical Law
- Pharmaceutical Practice
- Hospital Pharmacy Practice
Experience
Essential criteria- Ability to work within clearly defined occupational polices and standard operating procedures (SOPs)
- Experience in developing and implementing SOPs.
- Proven ability to manage own workload and the workload of others, delegating supervision activities as appropriate.
- Experience of assessing the work of others, feeding back appropriately and ensuring staff are working within defined SOPs.
- Knowledge and experience of recording data, including sensitive information
- Experience of conducting and reporting project & audit work
- Experience of working with a wide range of other health care professionals
- Experience of providing training
- Knowledge of risk management systems and processes
- Knowledge of medicines legislation and regulation within NHS acute trust settings
- Experience of working across organisational boundaries and managing complex stakeholder relationships
- Experience of contributing to the delivery of medication governance and medication safety, including experience of reviewing medication incidents, identifying the root cause and providing solutions with a plan to prevent recurrence