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Senior Pharmacist – Medicines Safety Officer and Governance lead

Band 8b

Part time, 30 hours per week (0.8 WTE). Permanent post.

We have a fantastic opportunity for a dynamic and experienced pharmacy leader to join the senior pharmacy team as the Medicines Safety Officer and Governance Lead.  

If you relish a challenge and want the chance to develop your clinical, leadership, research and managerial skills, this could be the right role for you.

We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic pharmacist to help develop the pharmaceutical service. 

You will need an excellent clinical knowledge base, possess significant and proven leadership, project, and change management skills and have an ability to build effective relationships and influence prescribing practice at a senior level.

You would need to be an experienced pharmacist and be motivated in developing the service and your own professional skills.

Main duties of the job

·            To lead the strategic development of the Trust-wide medication safety agenda and identify initiatives to minimise risk from medication safety issues which have the potential to cause patient harm including prescribing, dispensing and administration of medicines and monitoring of medicines use.

·            To be the designated Medicines Safety Officer for the Trust. The role will support the Chief Pharmacist, Medical Director and Chief Nurse Officer in undertaking their overall corporate responsibility for Medicines Management.

·            To act as the pharmacy lead for Trust-wide implementation of medicines related NHS Improvement alerts, MHRA Drug Safety Updates and alerts and manufacturer initiated safety initiatives including production of action plans and monitoring of ongoing compliance.

·            To review medication incident reports, ensure appropriate investigations and implement action plans to ensure lessons are learned and, where appropriate

·            Support the Deputy Chief Pharmacist with all elements of medicine and pharmaceutical clinical governance, ensuring that policies and procedures for all aspects of medicine use are developed to the highest quality and that all relevant standards, professional, statutory and operational are met

·            Lead the Pharmacy Governance Group 

·            Support the Controlled Drugs Accountable Officer 

Working for our organisation

Why Bolton?

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust is an integrated provider of acute, intermediate and community health care serving the population of Bolton. This provides us with an opportunity for our services to work closely with our partners in primary care and the local authority to ensure a seamless service for our patients.                                                          

Here at Bolton our patients are at the heart of everything we do. We ensure our patients receive the highest quality of Care and are guided by our trust Values. We are proud that our Trust is a centre of excellence for maternity, neonatal and care for children.

The aims of this Trust are to improve the health of and provide the best possible care to the population in which we serve and ensure that our staff have joy and pride in their work. We are striving to recruit a workforce that reflects the communities in which we serve. We value our staff and can offer excellent opportunities for further training and development. We are keen to reflect our local population and therefore applications from all sectors of the community are welcomed.