Medicines Safety Support Officer

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHSFT

The closing date is 23 January 2025

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Job summary

An exciting and novel opportunity has arisen to become the Medicines Safety Support Officerwithin a specialist cancer hospital pharmacy team. We are seeking a dynamic individual with experience in medicines safety and clinical governance to support our Medicines Safety Officer and drive the medicines safety agenda forward. This is an exceptionally exciting opportunity for the right individual to join our team to develop and lead on services within the Pharmacy Department, Trust and wider system. The successful candidate will have well developed listening and communication skills as well as the ability to build effective working relationships. You will provide pro-active professional medicines safety support to our clinicians, managers, patients and carers. You will have relevant experience in fields such as clinical audit, trend analysis, effective report writing and demonstrable skills in producing, maintaining and implementing multidisciplinary action plans The postholder will be based within the pharmacy team and will represent pharmacy services both within the Trust and externally, and be able to work towards Trust, locality and ICB agendas. Oncology experience is desirable however not essential and we would encourage applications from all individuals with the relevant experience as laid out in the job description. Professional registration is not essential, but may be of benefit for certain role elements.

Main duties of the job

To work with the Medicines Safety Officer (MSO) and divisional clinical governance team in areas of incident management , risk management, clinical audit and effectiveness to support the delivery of an effective, high quality medicines governance and risk management programme across the department and Trust.

To proactively identify medicines safety issues and support the timely review and update of incidents and risk.To co-ordinate, supervise, deliver and contribute to the medicines safety audit programme supporting implementation of outcomes arising from audit.To deliver and contribute to the education and training strategy for Trust wide staff in relation to medicines safety.To collect data to support the investigation of medication errors and implement changes to minimise risk both within pharmacy and in the community.To develop innovative quality improvement projects to improve medicines safety and quality outcomes for our patients.Analyse individual medicines incidents ensuring categorised correctly and produce monthly incident reports for divisions, specialities, and pharmacy, providing trend reports to appropriate groups and committeesReview and implement medicines policies, propose changes to working practices and procedures.Support the pharmacy department in the collection and coordination of data for submission towards regulatory inspections e.g. CQC.

About us

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre is one of three specialist cancer centres in England. With 1,800 specialist staff and three sites, we are one of the largest NHS providers of non-surgical cancer treatment. The Trust has a unique multi-site care model serving the 2.4 million population across Cheshire and Merseyside and is consistently rated by patients as one of the best performing hospitals.

Our vision is to not only maintain this level of commitment to excellence but to work with our academic and healthcare partners across the region to ensure care, treatment and patient outcomes continuously improve in the future. We are very proud of all our expert and loyal staff and we welcome people who share the collective aim of delivering excellence in everything that we do.

Our values represent who we are and what we believe in. They define how we act to deliver the best possible care for our patients and shape The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre as a great place to work.

We are -

  • Kind
  • Empowered
  • Responsible
  • Inclusive

Date posted

09 January 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

158-24-349-PHA

Job locations

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre - Liverpool

65 Pembroke Place

Liverpool

L7 8YA


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for detailed responsibilities and standards.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for detailed responsibilities and standards.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to degree level or equivalent

Desirable

  • Leadership qualification/training or equivalent experiential learning

Knowledge

Essential

  • Current, relevant knowledge of hospital pharmacy procedures acquired though training, experience and knowledge

Desirable

  • Pharmaceutical Law
  • Pharmaceutical Practice
  • Hospital Pharmacy Practice

Experience

Essential

  • Ability to work within clearly defined occupational polices and standard operating procedures (SOPs)
  • Experience in developing and implementing SOPs.
  • Proven ability to manage own workload and the workload of others, delegating supervision activities as appropriate.
  • Experience of assessing the work of others, feeding back appropriately and ensuring staff are working within defined SOPs.
  • Knowledge and experience of recording data, including sensitive information
  • Experience of conducting and reporting project & audit work
  • Experience of working with a wide range of other health care professionals
  • Experience of providing training

Desirable

  • Knowledge of risk management systems and processes
  • Knowledge of medicines legislation and regulation within NHS acute trust settings
  • Experience of working across organisational boundaries and managing complex stakeholder relationships
  • Experience of contributing to the delivery of medication governance and medication safety, including experience of reviewing medication incidents, identifying the root cause and providing solutions with a plan to prevent recurrence
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to degree level or equivalent

Desirable

  • Leadership qualification/training or equivalent experiential learning

Knowledge

Essential

  • Current, relevant knowledge of hospital pharmacy procedures acquired though training, experience and knowledge

Desirable

  • Pharmaceutical Law
  • Pharmaceutical Practice
  • Hospital Pharmacy Practice

Experience

Essential

  • Ability to work within clearly defined occupational polices and standard operating procedures (SOPs)
  • Experience in developing and implementing SOPs.
  • Proven ability to manage own workload and the workload of others, delegating supervision activities as appropriate.
  • Experience of assessing the work of others, feeding back appropriately and ensuring staff are working within defined SOPs.
  • Knowledge and experience of recording data, including sensitive information
  • Experience of conducting and reporting project & audit work
  • Experience of working with a wide range of other health care professionals
  • Experience of providing training

Desirable

  • Knowledge of risk management systems and processes
  • Knowledge of medicines legislation and regulation within NHS acute trust settings
  • Experience of working across organisational boundaries and managing complex stakeholder relationships
  • Experience of contributing to the delivery of medication governance and medication safety, including experience of reviewing medication incidents, identifying the root cause and providing solutions with a plan to prevent recurrence

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Additional information

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHSFT

Address

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre - Liverpool

65 Pembroke Place

Liverpool

L7 8YA


Employer's website

https://www.clatterbridgecc.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHSFT

Address

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre - Liverpool

65 Pembroke Place

Liverpool

L7 8YA


Employer's website

https://www.clatterbridgecc.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact:

Deputy Director of Pharmacy

Ben Woodhouse

ben.woodhouse2@nhs.net

01513188712

Date posted

09 January 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

158-24-349-PHA

Job locations

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre - Liverpool

65 Pembroke Place

Liverpool

L7 8YA


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