Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
We are looking to appoint a number of experienced clinicians to roles within our medicines management governance team with drive and aptitude to become part of a dynamic and developing Pharmacy Team. We are committed to developing and training our staff and you will work in a supportive environment with training opportunities, to build on your foundation skills and develop your expertise. These posts are open to all staff who work within the Medicines Management Team and meet the essential criteria.
You will join our dynamic, Trust wide medicines management governance team in providing medicines optimisation, quality improvement and support safe use of medicines across the Trust.
We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation within Pharmacy to facilitate improvements in our medicines safety, medicines governance and assurance oversight.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
The Trust has invested in expanding the medicines safety and governance team to improve the reporting and learning from medication incidents across the Trust, support the regional and national network of medicines safety professionals, ensure compliance with MHRA requirements and statutory standards.
Shortlisting planned for: 27 August 2024
Interview planned for: 6 September 2024
You will be and experienced registered health care professional, joining the medicines management governance team consisting of experienced pharmacy clinicians. You will be expected to work as part of the multidisciplinary team to deliver support for the management of medicines safety and controlled drug issues within the Trust.
You will have the opportunity to develop your practice in a wide range of clinical areas in a large organisation but as part of smaller supportive medicines management teams.
You will be supported in any ongoing studies relevant to the role.
You will be expected to co-ordinate work plans, complete audits, develop training, write reports; and lead meetings that are relevant to your role.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together.
We call this continuous improvement in quality and cost, ‘striving for perfect care’. Our aim is to play a full part in the health and social care economies we serve, by promoting and driving greater integration between mental and physical health and social care.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
1.Liaise with the Chief Pharmacist, Deputy Chief Pharmacist, Mersey Care Business Managers, CCG colleagues, GPs, LMC/LPC staff as required to discuss/ address issues connected with medicine safety.
2. Deputise for the Trust Medicines Safety Officer to represent the Trust on the National Medication Safety Network.
3. Attend, contribute to and report back from Trust / CCG / University / Regional / National meetings as required by the Medicines Safety Officer.
4. Support the implementation of MHRA, NHS England and other medicine safety communications with associated record keeping.
5. Work with key stakeholders to review areas of prescribing and administration practice as identified in anythematic analysis of prescribing and administration errors.
6. Provide detailed reports and analysis of all incidents involving medication for scrutiny by the MSG, DTC and/or Patient Safety Groups.
7. Promote and maintain positive, effective communication systems and support the embedding of best practice within teams across the organisation in respect of medication errors.
8. Undertake presentations at education sessions, individual meetings with senior medical staff and at Directorate meetings and advise and influence prescribers and other healthcare professionals on the action, properties and the safe, cost- effective use of medicines.
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This advert closes on Monday 26 Aug 2024