Greensleeves Care, a leading not-for-profit care provider in the UK the leading is seeking a Medication Management Coordinator to support its homes in ensuring safe, accurate, and compliant medication administration across the trust.
Responsible to : Director of Quality and Compliance
Location: Based at nearest care home with regular travel to all homes and sites.
Our Values:
Respect – We treat residents and colleagues with dignity and value their unique life experiences and personal contributions.
Openness – We act openly and honestly, building confidence in our intentions and behaviour. We choose words and actions that are sincere, not misleading.
Responsibility – We are committed to meeting the needs of others and behave responsibility towards residents and colleagues, being careful of the choices we make.
Core responsibilities in this role
* Support colleagues in Homes to assess their medication management processes and ensure compliance with Greensleeves Care policies and procedures, regulatory requirements and any special needs of residents.
* Work with Homes to maintain up-to-date and accurate care plans in respect to Resident medications by supporting with queries and questions and undertaking spot checks of homes medication care plans as needed.
* Work with Homes to ensure safe practice and accuracy, openness and transparency at all times concerning the management of medication and in particular the management of medication audits.
* Participate in medication audit activities as appropriate and where agreed with the Director of Quality & Compliance.
* Maintain, review and as necessary develop medication systems within homes to ensure and facilitate effective communication around medication management.
* Assist homes to ensure all medication incidents are reported promptly in accordance with Greensleeves Care policy and support in the management of any investigations, outcomes and lessons learned with regards to any medication errors where appropriate.
* Participate in meetings with Greensleeves Care partners in medication management including pharmacies, e-Mar providers etc. and where relevant support the roll out of new systems or updates to current systems.
Skills and experience required in this role:
* The Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF) Level 3 or equivalent in care or other relevant qualification.
* Experience of working with older People in the care home environment.
* Experience of administering medication.
* Experience of leading medication rounds.
* Experience of wider medication management and working with teams to improve performance.
* Understand care planning
* processes and have experience of writing care plans specifically around the management of medication.
* Experience of conducting medication audits.
* An understanding of the legal and regulatory requirements around the management of medication within a care home
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Please note this role is open to UK-based candidates only.