Job summary
To support the Medication Safety Officer (MSO) in investigating medicines incidents, reviewing investigations, disseminating alerts, preparing reports, and sharing lessons learnt.To support all aspects of the medicine's safety agenda across Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust.To ensure consistent review and updating of medication errors.To act as an advisory on medicines safety.To support the MSO in disseminating lessons learnt from incident investigations, to identify medicines safety issues from national guidance and embed into clinical practice.To assist in preparation for the Medicines Management and Safety Group.To analyse data, providing interpretation and reports as appropriate to a wide variety of staff groups.To provide training on medicines safety to a wide variety of staff groups
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities:oTo liaise with services to ensure medication errors are reported and investigated appropriately.oTo disseminate medication alerts and coordinate response.o To train staff in incident reporting and investigation.oTo ensure that medicines management practices within MDT and services comply with legal, national, and local guidelines.oTo ensure that drug therapy is evidence-based, safe, cost-effective, and appropriate to the individual patient.oTo support the Trust with the implementation of the patient safety incident response framework for responding to patient safety incidents for the purpose of learning and improving patient safety.
About us
Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -
We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference
We Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs
We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners
We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :
Increase mileage rates for > 3500
A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
Plus many more.
We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.
BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please read the attached Job description and person specification for more details about this role.
Right to Work in the UK
Prior to your appointment you will be asked to provide confirmation of your right to work and reside in the UK. During your continued employment with the Trust, you have a personal responsibility to notify your manager as soon as possible should there be any changes to your right to work status.
Regrettably, if the role is not eligible for sponsorship under the Trusts eligibility criteria, the Trust are unable to extend your employment beyond the expiration of your current visa. The Trust is not responsible or liable for ensuring that your employment continues after this period.
As a condition of continuous employment, it essential you maintain the legal right to work in the United Kingdom throughout the duration of your employment with Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust (BDCFT). Any change in your right-to-work status, including but not limited to visa expiration, revocation, or denial of renewal, may impact your eligibility for employment with the Trust. It is your responsibility to promptly inform your Line Manager of any changes in your right-to-work status immediately and to provide necessary documentation for verification purposes. Failure to obtain or renew your visa in a timely manner is a breach of employment conditions and will result in termination of your employment. We appreciate your attention to this matter and your commitment to fulfilling this requirement promptly
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please read the attached Job description and person specification for more details about this role.
Right to Work in the UK
Prior to your appointment you will be asked to provide confirmation of your right to work and reside in the UK. During your continued employment with the Trust, you have a personal responsibility to notify your manager as soon as possible should there be any changes to your right to work status.
Regrettably, if the role is not eligible for sponsorship under the Trusts eligibility criteria, the Trust are unable to extend your employment beyond the expiration of your current visa. The Trust is not responsible or liable for ensuring that your employment continues after this period.
As a condition of continuous employment, it essential you maintain the legal right to work in the United Kingdom throughout the duration of your employment with Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust (BDCFT). Any change in your right-to-work status, including but not limited to visa expiration, revocation, or denial of renewal, may impact your eligibility for employment with the Trust. It is your responsibility to promptly inform your Line Manager of any changes in your right-to-work status immediately and to provide necessary documentation for verification purposes. Failure to obtain or renew your visa in a timely manner is a breach of employment conditions and will result in termination of your employment. We appreciate your attention to this matter and your commitment to fulfilling this requirement promptly
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Holds professional clinical registration as Nurse / Pharmacist / Pharmacy Technician
- Leadership, management, and quality improvement experience and/ or qualification.
Desirable
- Post graduate clinical qualification
Training
Essential
- Evidence of regular Continuing Professional Development.
- Awareness of performance measures (specifically with reference to Clinical Governance and Healthcare Standards)
- Specialist Training
Experience
Essential
- Hospital Experience
- Mental Health Experience
- Supervision of staff
- Delivery of training
- Experience of multidisciplinary working
- Experience in educating patients and carers
- Medicines management
- Relevant professional, managerial and leadership experience of pharmacy technicians and support staff.
- Excellent time management skills required to manage own time most effectively by planning and prioritising workload appropriately.
- Use judgement to respond to service/ staffing changes to maintain services and ensure a safe working environment within the team, also regarding when to escalate any concerns.
Desirable
- Experience of Incident Management
- Reporting systems
- Experience of medication safety
- Delivery of training to other staff
Knowledge
Essential
- Have a knowledge of clinical governance, clinical audit, and risk management.
- Have up to date knowledge of mental health and community services.
- Have knowledge of primary and secondary care services.
- Understanding of health services and medicines/ pharmacy related issues in primary and secondary care.
- To have knowledge/ experience of quality improvement and service development
Desirable
- Understanding of local and national priorities through thorough knowledge of the NHS, government and local structure, policy, process and guidelines relevant to medicines management, pharmacy and mental health.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Holds professional clinical registration as Nurse / Pharmacist / Pharmacy Technician
- Leadership, management, and quality improvement experience and/ or qualification.
Desirable
- Post graduate clinical qualification
Training
Essential
- Evidence of regular Continuing Professional Development.
- Awareness of performance measures (specifically with reference to Clinical Governance and Healthcare Standards)
- Specialist Training
Experience
Essential
- Hospital Experience
- Mental Health Experience
- Supervision of staff
- Delivery of training
- Experience of multidisciplinary working
- Experience in educating patients and carers
- Medicines management
- Relevant professional, managerial and leadership experience of pharmacy technicians and support staff.
- Excellent time management skills required to manage own time most effectively by planning and prioritising workload appropriately.
- Use judgement to respond to service/ staffing changes to maintain services and ensure a safe working environment within the team, also regarding when to escalate any concerns.
Desirable
- Experience of Incident Management
- Reporting systems
- Experience of medication safety
- Delivery of training to other staff
Knowledge
Essential
- Have a knowledge of clinical governance, clinical audit, and risk management.
- Have up to date knowledge of mental health and community services.
- Have knowledge of primary and secondary care services.
- Understanding of health services and medicines/ pharmacy related issues in primary and secondary care.
- To have knowledge/ experience of quality improvement and service development
Desirable
- Understanding of local and national priorities through thorough knowledge of the NHS, government and local structure, policy, process and guidelines relevant to medicines management, pharmacy and 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.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
