Clinical Pharmacist, Medication Safety Officer

Job summary

Do you have a passion for medication safety? Are you a highly motivated and experienced pharmacist with the skills to assess and manage risk, initiate and manage change, and also provide assurance around the safe use of medicines? Could you find opportunities to influence patient safety across the system? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you! ABUHB are looking for a Medication Safety Officer (MSO) to join our pharmacy team.

This role is vital for encouraging medication incident reporting and learning from these incidents. You will work closely with the pharmacy teams at all hospital sites within the HB and also link in with primary care. This role is immensely rewarding and enables the opportunity to make a real difference to patient care. ABUHB believe that providing the highest quality of care, is about having the best people, inspired and supported by the best leaders.

ABUHB Pharmacy offers a dynamic and supportive environment that values our staff, with many opportunities for personal development along your career pathway We support flexible working and welcome applicants looking at full- or part-time working. Consideration will be given to an element of remote working. Base site is flexible to any of our acute sites across the HB and will be agreed on appointment. The post currently has a clinical commitment to be undertaken at GUH (2 sessions per week) which can be discussed further prior to appointment.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be able to work in a collaborative, effective and efficient manner to lead and support the medicines safety strategy. This includes responsibilities to: -

o Lead, develop, deliver and evaluate the medication safety strategy for the Health Board in line with regional, local and national directives.

o Act as the lead Pharmacist for the management of medicines shortages to support the Principal Procurement Pharmacist and procurement Pharmacy Technicians across ABUHB to ensure robust supply chain.

o Support the Procurement Pharmacist and Divisional Pharmacists to manage clinical impact and safety implications of medication switches and policy amendments during a medicines shortage scenario through effective information dissemination to clinical teams.

o Provide medication incident trend analysis and work with the ABUHB patient safety stakeholders to prepare improvement plans, prioritising actions that will lead to the greatest benefit and harm prevention to patients.

o Promote medicines safety agenda by leading on specific audits, intervention reports and quality improvement projects.

o Provide support for Pharmacy, Medical, Nursing, and other staff on safety initiatives. This includes the delivery and development of educational resources.

The terms and condition of the post will be negotiated with the successful applicant prior to appointment so please contact us if you wish to discuss the role in more detail.

About us

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.

We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.

Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.