Senior Lead Pharmacist - Governance and Medication Safety

Senior Lead Pharmacist - Governance and Medication Safety

Would you like to be part of a dynamic team leading our pharmacy Governance and Medication Safety agenda within the Medicines Resource Centre (MRC) team at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust?

We are a strongly patient focussed team who are passionate about our roles, support and develop each other and our colleagues, across our healthcare system.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will be the lead for the provision and assurance of our governance and medication safety agenda in line with agreed objectives. You will manage and reduce medicines related risks and ensure that the Trust Medicines Policy and medicines legislation is complied with. You will be supported by and line manage the Medicines Safety Pharmacy Technician.

Job responsibilities

For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.

Person Specification

Education, Qualification & Training

• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Post-graduate diploma/MSc in clinically-based pharmacy or recognised equivalent
• Pharmacy degree (BPharm, BSc or MPharm)
• Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical society

Skills, Abilities & Knowledge

• Able to prioritise and manage own workload
• Work, communicate and provide effective leadership within a team
• Clear and concise verbal and written communication to ensure liaison with multi-disciplinary team, patients and carers and to ensure records are kept accurately and in a legible manner.
• To have a positive attitude, be able to recognise and communicate need for change and be able to participate in change management processes.
• Able to recognise limits of own competencies and to refer and seek advice from colleagues.
• Able to recognise and embrace new ideas and developments in clinical practice and implement under supervision of superiors
• Prepared to attend any training sessions necessary for personal and service development

Experience

• Considerable hospital pharmacy experience at Post Registration Pharmacist level
• Delivery of pharmacy services to a range of specialities
• Evidence of significant relevant Continuing Professional Development
• Experience of project management
• Experience of training of other pharmacy staff
• Experience in pre-registration training

Special Circumstances

• Able to travel to other sites within the Trust and to venues for training.

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.

Associate Director of Pharmacy - MRC & Governance

£53,755 to £60,504 a year per annum pro rata