Job summary
- Main area
- Medicines Risk and Quality
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 153-SP03294
- Employer
- University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Poole hospital
- Town
- Poole
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 pa/pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Medicines Management Nurse Specialist
Band 6
As University Hospitals Dorset we are a three site acute trust with ‘university hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.
We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.
In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches you’ll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we’re also less than three hours from London by road or train. The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.
We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work.
We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.
At UHD our active staff network groups are the Women's Network, Black Asian Minority Ethnic Group (BAME), Pride Network, European (EU), Pro Ability Staff Network, and the Armed Forces Support Group.
As a Trust we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes.
Job overview
Are you searching for the next step in your healthcare career? Are you highly motivated and passionate about patient and medication safety?
We’re looking for an experienced registered nurse with excellent communication and interpersonal skills to join our Pharmacy Risk, Quality and Governance Team at #TeamUHD.
You’ll have the opportunity to develop your leadership and management skills with varied training, such as leading Datix review investigations, Root Cause Analysis and more. Your success is our success and we’ll support you in all your training and development endeavours.
You will help to solidify and grow the relationship between pharmacy and nursing staff, bringing a valuable nursing perspective to help shape pharmacy service delivery.
We offer generous relocation support to candidates outside our area to help the transition. Please get in touch if you have any further questions.
Base Location: Poole Hospital
Interview Date: TBC
Main duties of the job
- Provide support to Pharmacy and Ward staff in the implementation and management of safe medication practices, e.g. NHS Commissioning Board Special Health Authority / National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS) alerts, Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency (MHRA) alerts, NHS England advice
- Support pharmacy and nursing staff in analysing, reporting on, reflecting, and learning from medication incidents.
- Identify trends in mismanagement of medicines and to drive and support change in practice to avoid recurrence.
- Be a champion and advocate for medication safety, supporting both Pharmacy and the wider Trust.
- Support pharmacy and nursing staff in analysing, reporting on, reflecting, and learning from medication incidents.
- Provide nursing expertise, facilitating evidence-based, patient centred care for patients.
Working for our organisation
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have at interview.
We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.
We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work. We can offer fully paid and highly regarded training opportunities such training programmes and advanced leadership courses
At UHD our active staff network groups are the Women's Network, Black Asian Minority Ethnic Group (BAME), Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Network Group (LGBTQ+), European (EU), Pro Ability Staff Network, and the Armed Forces Support Group
As a Trust we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We commit to consider all potential work life balance options for all posts.
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registration with NMC
- Advance diploma/degree in adult health nursing studies
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive ward based experience
- Excellent IT skills
- Audit and research skills, including feedback and implementation of findings
- Comprehensive understanding of professional nursing issues
Desirable criteria
- Familiarity with WellSky pharmacy / prescribing system
- Experience of delivering training
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Specialist working knowledge of management of medicines in hospitals and the risks associated with medicines use
- Ability to produce and interpret medicines management related policies
- Well developed knowledge across a wide range of medicines management related procedures
Desirable criteria
- Awareness of quality and safety agendas that support governance framework
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Lenka Dowdell
- Job title
- Lead Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 019 5718
- Additional information
Rachel Richardson, Lead Pharmacy Technician: Risk and Governance
0300 019 5718
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