Permanent Term Contract. Full time 37.5 hours per week.
We are looking for a specialist Medicines Safety Nurse to join our Pharmacy team. You will work closely with the Pharmacy Medicines Safety Team to provide specialist insight to medicines-related safety issues from a nursing perspective.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will be a specialist nurse who offers advice and support to professional groups in all areas relating to medications safety. They will act as a resource/link across the Trust to ensure that patient safety systems/processes, which relate to medicines management in clinical areas, are safe, legal, and comply with national and professional guidance, requirements, policy, and legislation.
The post holder will have delegated authority from members of the Medicines Safety Group to manage the medicines management agenda.
The post-holder will lead developments related to medicines safety across the Trust. They will be responsible for developing clinical standards relating to medicines and other related areas of clinical practice. They will have responsibility for the monitoring, evaluation, and implementation of improvements via the Trust audit programme including BoSCA and KPI audits.
The overall objectives of the post will be to optimise Medicines Management systems within the trust to ensure safe practice, optimising patient care, considering national & professional standards, learning from incidents and complaints. This will be shared and discussed at suitable forums such as the Trust Medicines Safety Group, National & Regional Medicine Safety Forums, and other relevant Trust Groups/Committees.
Working for our organisation
We’re very proud of the team we’ve built at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust. We’ve always been an organisation defined by bringing together talented people with a shared vision and passion for helping us to be the best we can be for our patients.
All of our people are unique individuals who are united by a set of six core values that apply to everything we do to help improve the health and wellbeing of the communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful candidate will work in conjunction with the wider corporate team to ensure they are able to fulfill the details included within the job description.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Nursing degree or equivalent diploma or qualification
* Registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council
* Relevant Master’s degree or working towards
Experience
* A minimum of 5 years post-qualification experience or experience of working in a specialised area as a band 6.
* Working knowledge and understanding of medicines management processes and of managing professional standards within an NHS setting.
* Experience of patient safety issues and clinical governance.
* Evidence of recent relevant professional development and experience of contributing to and effectively implementing Nursing and Midwifery and/or other professional strategies.
The vision of this Trust is to be recognised by the people of Bolton and beyond as an excellent provider of health and care services and a great place to work. We are striving to attract, recruit and retain high calibre skilled staff which reflect our communities. We are an inclusive employer who trains and develops our staff in a positive learning environment.
We thrive on cultivating cultural architecture. If you have the right skills, attitudes, and behaviours, in line with our Trust values, we welcome and appreciate the diversity you bring to our organisation.
We offer a wide range of staff benefits; please click on the link below to see what current benefits we have.
From time to time we may need to close a vacancy early when in receipt of a sufficient number of applications. If you are interested in this post and wish to be considered, we strongly advise you to complete and submit your application as soon as possible.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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