Job summary
Employer heading
Medicines Safety Officer Pharmacist
Band 7
Community healthcare is unlike any other part of the NHS. It’s personalised care that helps people to retain their independence. It’s the NHS at its best and the difference you make is truly tangible.
Our colleagues often describe us as a family, and we know how important that sense of belonging and support is when you start a new job. Our preceptorship programme is second to none hence the award and logo. It’s simple - happy, engaged staff provide better services. In 2018, we were named ‘Best Place to Work for Employee Satisfaction’ by the Nursing Times. The same year, we won the Workforce category at the HSJ Awards. In the latest NHS Staff Survey results 2020, we had the best response rate amongst community trusts nationally.
We are the top community trust in the country on the theme Quality of care for the third year. We had the highest percentage of staff who felt they are able to deliver the care they aspire to and are satisfied with the quality of care they give to patients or service users.
Job overview
To provide a clinical pharmacy service to the inpatient unit at Teddington Memorial Hospital, and support the Medicines Safety officer role to support the safe medicines agenda at HRCH.
Main duties of the job
- To provide professional pharmaceutical advice to all Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare teams.
- To identify and act on pharmaceutical issues which arise in the community
- To reduce risk associated with medicines use by contributing to the safe medication practice agenda
- To be responsible for communicating and interpreting relevant national and local decisions and policy relating to medicines, to community healthcare staff.
Working for our organisation
Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust (HRCH) provide a wide range of healthcare services for the population of London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and the London Borough of Hounslow.
The Clinical Services Directorates have a wide range of responsibilities to manage, including co-ordinating and delivering community primary care services on behalf of the Trust. A wide range of these healthcare services are delivered by staff in the community, who include medical staff, paediatric therapists, therapy assistants, health visitors, specialist nurses, nurses, nursery nurses, paediatric phlebotomists and healthcare support workers with the support of administrative staff working in localities with GPs, other health professionals, early years, education, and social care professionals.
The digitalisation of health services is underway with a requirement to become paper-light by 2023 through improving the use of digital tools and adopting mobile and agile working practices and increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of clinical delivery.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Member of General Pharmaceutical Council
Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum of 2 years experience in providing pharmaceutical advice in either primary care, or hospital or community pharmacy
- Experience in Hospital Pharmacy and Community Health Services Pharmacy or Community Pharmacy
- Evidence of success in service development
Knowledge&Skills
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with a range of healthcare professionals
- Good written skills with the ability to produce reports proposals and deliver presentations
- Ability to prioritise workload, to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Navneet Sahota
- Job title
- joint deputy chief pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07786197109
- Additional information
Brenda Edwards [email protected]
Mobile: 07585 980831
Joint deputy chief pharmacist
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