Job overview

To lead on the clinical effectiveness of Pharmacy services, including governance, medication safety and electronic prescribing.

To act as the Trust’s Medication Safety Officer. To support local medication error reporting and learning and act as the main contact for NHS England and MHRA.

Main duties of the job

To be the designated Medication Safety Officer (MSO) for the Trust.
 To improve the reporting and learning from medication incidents and errors, both within the organisation and outside.
 To oversee the investigation of all medication related incidents. To provide support for investigators of medication related incidents and, where appropriate, request  the provision of a root cause analysis (RCA) report.
To work closely with the pharmacy governance lead on all aspects of patient safety relating to medication usage.
To drive improvements in data quality from Trust Safeguard reporting system for local and national learning. To report on these to the appropriate national/local body as required.
 To liaise with, and produce information and reports for, appropriate internal and external bodies such as MHRA and NHSE.
To develop, monitor and implement the Trust strategy around medication safety through clinical leadership, taking the lead role in setting the agenda and workplan of the Safe Medication Practice group and acting as vice-chair.
 To drive change and improvement within the Trust regarding the safe usage of medicines, based on intelligence and investigation from medication incidents, and national benchmarking and learning.

Working for our organisation

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust is an integrated Trust and the only provider of NHS acute care in Walsall, serving a population of 286,700, providing inpatient and outpatient services at the Manor Hospital as well as a wide range of services in the community. Walsall Manor houses the full range of district general hospital services under one roof. The £170 million development was completed in 2010 and the continued upgrading of existing areas ensures the Trust now has a state-of-the-art Critical Care Unit, Neonatal Unit, Obstetric Theatre, and Integrated Assessment Unit facilities. Work is also well underway on its multi-million pound new Urgent and Emergency Care Centre which will house a new Emergency Department (including Children’s Emergency Department), co-located Paediatric Assessment Unit, Acute Medical Unit and Urgent Care Centre. This is scheduled for completion this year.