Job summary
Specialist Nurse - EPMA & Medicines Safety
We are seeking an experienced, committed, and motivated registered nurse with a passion for patient safety, learning and development. We welcome and encourage applications from individuals who have strong clinical and managerial experience acquired from a diverse background
The Specialist Nurse for ePMA & Medicines Safety will be responsible for the management and oversight of trust-wide learning from incidents associated with electronic prescribing and medicines safety. This a quality and governance role and the post holder will be required to manage the entire incident review process, supporting reviewers, analysis of review data, sharing of learning and performance improvement. The post holder will make use of best practice review methodology to identify trust-wide procedural, clinical and system weaknesses linked to ePMA & medicines safety trough identification of root causes, contributory factors and lessons learned identified, supporting SMART action plans so that recommendations can be put in place.
The post holder will support the Solent NHS Trust Medication Safety Officer (MSO) and Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (ePMA) team. Working with nursing and medical colleagues to promote the safe management, prescribing and administration of medicines throughout hospital and community settings.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will support the Solent NHS Trust Medication Safety Officer (MSO) and Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration team. Working with nursing colleagues to promote the safe management, prescribing and administration of medicines throughout hospital and community sites, with areas in scope including (but not restricted to):
ePMA Administration (medicines) errors
ePMA Prescribing (medicines) errors
Auditing of Incident reporting: (Ulysses)
Thematic Incident reporting
Patient Safety Incident Investigation (PSII)
Implementation of lessons learnt to improve clinical practice
ePMA operational, governance and project support
Education, training, research, and development
The post holder will be a resource/link, championing the safe management of medicines whilst using ePMA within both hospital and community settings.
The role will provide expert clinician support and specialist education and training to Solent staff to embrace safe medicines management process and clinical practice whilst utilising ePMA system and support the Medicines Safety Officer (MSO), Matrons and Ward Managers in relation to the safe and secure handling and storage of medicines and use of ePMA system within the trust hospital and community sites
About us
Make a difference with us
If you are looking for somewhere you can make a real difference and are passionate about keeping people safe, well and out of hospital, a career with us may be just what you're looking for. At Solent NHS Trust, we strive to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of our communities.
We are proud to be an organisation which is focused on our people and we welcome people who share our values to come and work with us.
To deliver great care that is safe, simple and easy to access
To be a caring, flexible and supportive place to work
To deliver the best value for money
Our shared values support the development of a strong working culture. They breathe life into our organisation -- guiding and inspiring all of our actions and decisions. They enable us to be better at what we do and create a great place for our staff to work, whilst ensuring we provide the highest quality of care to our patients.
In creating our values, we spent time listening to our employees and members. Based on what people told us, we created our HEART values to reflect the deep belief that we are caring organisation at the centre of our community: Honesty, Everyone counts, Accountable, Respectful, Teamwork.
We are an accredited Real Living Wage employer.
We encourage and support our staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against Covid-19.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will identify, develop and promote best practice for medication safety whilst using ePMA system. This will include reducing the risks related to specific medicines as identified by local incident reporting and supporting the implementation of external patient safety guidance from NHS England, MHRA (Medicine and Healthcare products regulatory agency), NICE (National Institute of Clinical Excellence) and other organisations - implementation will require coordination and support for process and system changes to reduce the likelihood of serious medication risk
Clinical Duties
- Visible and maintains a high profile in clinical areas
- Where necessary, work clinically with teams to support the safe delivery of care through safe medicines management and ePMA
- Provide specialist medicines management and ePMA advice to patients and registered Health Care Professionals and unregistered staff
- Contributes and critically discusses any issues encountered with colleagues ensuring and maintaining high standards of clinical care
- Supports the MSO and Nursing colleagues when investigating incidents and complaints. Actively work with clinical leaders to reduce the number of incidents and formal complaints by acting early on concerns related to medicines safety and use of ePMA.
- Develops and implements service user engagement to improve patient experience
- Ensures ePMA system configuration and ePMA pathways meet best practice in medication safety
- Support the internal and external technical teams to design, create and test the EPMA system
- Act as a translator between current written protocols and system configuration
- Lead on the successful planning and set-up of the EPMA reporting systems
- Works with ward/department/community managers to develop systems of supervision for nurses/doctors in their clinical area with regards to ePMA, while ensuring that clinical practice is research/evidence based
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will identify, develop and promote best practice for medication safety whilst using ePMA system. This will include reducing the risks related to specific medicines as identified by local incident reporting and supporting the implementation of external patient safety guidance from NHS England, MHRA (Medicine and Healthcare products regulatory agency), NICE (National Institute of Clinical Excellence) and other organisations - implementation will require coordination and support for process and system changes to reduce the likelihood of serious medication risk
Clinical Duties
- Visible and maintains a high profile in clinical areas
- Where necessary, work clinically with teams to support the safe delivery of care through safe medicines management and ePMA
- Provide specialist medicines management and ePMA advice to patients and registered Health Care Professionals and unregistered staff
- Contributes and critically discusses any issues encountered with colleagues ensuring and maintaining high standards of clinical care
- Supports the MSO and Nursing colleagues when investigating incidents and complaints. Actively work with clinical leaders to reduce the number of incidents and formal complaints by acting early on concerns related to medicines safety and use of ePMA.
- Develops and implements service user engagement to improve patient experience
- Ensures ePMA system configuration and ePMA pathways meet best practice in medication safety
- Support the internal and external technical teams to design, create and test the EPMA system
- Act as a translator between current written protocols and system configuration
- Lead on the successful planning and set-up of the EPMA reporting systems
- Works with ward/department/community managers to develop systems of supervision for nurses/doctors in their clinical area with regards to ePMA, while ensuring that clinical practice is research/evidence based
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree with training relevant to speciality to masters level equivalent
- BSc Nursing or RN currently registered with NMC
- Demonstrates evidence of ongoing continuous professional development
- Qualification in Teaching and Assessing in Practice e.g. ENB 998 or equivalent
- Leadership and Quality Improvement qualification or equivalent experience in clinical practice
- Post-registration training preferably in speciality area
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience working as a Band 6/7 Registered Nurse in the hospital setting
- Demonstrable experience and knowledge for implementation of medicines management & safety interventions within the clinical setting
- Service development and change management experience
- Evidence of leadership skills and innovation in previous posts
- Evidence contributing to the development of policies/guidelines/protocols
- Experience delivering training and presenting to groups in person and virtually
- Specialist knowledge across a wide range of medicines management and safety related procedures underpinned by theory
- Previous experience and knowledge in implementation of new IT systems
- Keen interest in training and development
- Experience of working under pressure with varying levels of seniority
- An awareness of new technologies and their potential for application in healthcare
- Considerable experience of using clinical information systems
Desirable
- Experience working in the Community setting
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Capable of developing training sessions that are tailored to the needs of a service user group
- Reliable, confident, approachable team player willing and able to challenge constructively and to contribute ideas to the wider team
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree with training relevant to speciality to masters level equivalent
- BSc Nursing or RN currently registered with NMC
- Demonstrates evidence of ongoing continuous professional development
- Qualification in Teaching and Assessing in Practice e.g. ENB 998 or equivalent
- Leadership and Quality Improvement qualification or equivalent experience in clinical practice
- Post-registration training preferably in speciality area
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience working as a Band 6/7 Registered Nurse in the hospital setting
- Demonstrable experience and knowledge for implementation of medicines management & safety interventions within the clinical setting
- Service development and change management experience
- Evidence of leadership skills and innovation in previous posts
- Evidence contributing to the development of policies/guidelines/protocols
- Experience delivering training and presenting to groups in person and virtually
- Specialist knowledge across a wide range of medicines management and safety related procedures underpinned by theory
- Previous experience and knowledge in implementation of new IT systems
- Keen interest in training and development
- Experience of working under pressure with varying levels of seniority
- An awareness of new technologies and their potential for application in healthcare
- Considerable experience of using clinical information systems
Desirable
- Experience working in the Community setting
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Capable of developing training sessions that are tailored to the needs of a service user group
- Reliable, confident, approachable team player willing and able to challenge constructively and to contribute ideas to the wider team
Additional information
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
