Senior Lead Pharmacist - Medicines Safety, Risk & Physical Health

Senior Lead Pharmacist - Medicines Safety, Risk & Physical Health

The Senior Lead Pharmacist Medicines Safety, Risk and Physical Health role is a senior role within the Pharmacy Department providing strategic leadership and direction for:

all aspects of medicines safety

all aspects of risk identification and management related to medicines use and pharmacy

effective and safe medicines use to optimise the physical health of individuals with mental health conditions, particularly those with complex physical health co-morbidities

They will:

• Be the trust designated Medicines Safety Officer and have a lead role in developing systems to optimise safe medication practice and organisational learning.
• Lead on and deliver the Trust medicines safety programme and ensure that it develops in line with local, regional and national directives.
• Lead on and be responsible for collating, analysing, investigating and learning from incidents to improve medication safety for patients.
• Lead on risk management for medicines and pharmacy.
• Lead on initiatives to improve the pharmacological management of physical health co-morbidities of people living with severe mental illness.
• Be the trust designated lead for antimicrobial stewardship

Main duties of the job

Lead the Trust Medicines Safety Programme and act as MSO.

• Chair the Medicines Safety Group and provide reports to governance committees.
• Oversee medicines-related incident reporting, analysis, action planning and learning.
• Provide specialist clinical pharmacy input in psychopharmacology and physical health
• Review and respond to MHRA Drug Safety Updates, CAS alerts, supply notifications and National Patient Safety Alerts
• Support safe use of emergency medicines and medicines-related medical devices
• Lead development and delivery of medicines audit programmes
• Provide expert leadership to optimise physical healthcare for people with serious mental illness
• Lead antimicrobial stewardship Trust-wide.
• Support CQC compliance, risk register management and medicines-related policies.
• Line-manage allocated pharmacy staff and oversee training, development and supervision.
• Contribute to service development, QI activity, audits and research.

About us

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

• We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
• With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
• We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care

Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Job responsibilities

The Senior Lead Pharmacist Medicines Safety, Risk and Physical Health role is a senior role within the Pharmacy Department providing strategic leadership and direction for:

all aspects of medicines safety

all aspects of risk identification and management related to medicines use and pharmacy

effective and safe medicines use to optimise the physical health of individuals with mental health conditions, particularly those with complex physical health co-morbidities

They will:

Be the trust designated Medicines Safety Officer and have a lead role in developing systems to optimise safe medication practice and organisational learning.

Lead on and deliver the Trust medicines safety programme and ensure that it develops in line with local, regional and national directives.

Lead on and be responsible for collating, analysing, investigating and learning from incidents to improve medication safety for patients.

Lead on risk management for medicines and pharmacy.

Lead on initiatives to improve the pharmacological management of physical health co-morbidities of people living with severe mental illness.

Be the trust designated lead for antimicrobial stewardship

Person Specification Knowledge

• Higher degree/ diploma in clinical pharmacy/ diploma in psychiatric pharmacy or equivalent

Values Based Questions

• We Inspire; We are Kind
• We are Collaborative; We Work Together
• We are Compassionate; We are Proudly Diverse
• We Empower; We keep things Simple

Skills

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Experience

• Significant demonstrable advanced experience of working as a clinical practitioner in mental health.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

St Ann's Hospital site (but is a Trust-wide role)

£72,921 to £83,362 a yearPer annum including HCAS

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

455-NLFT-0678

Job locations

St Ann's Hospital site (but is a Trust-wide role)