Pharmacy Foundation Training Lead

2 weeks ago


StocktononTees County Durham, United Kingdom North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust Full time

This is an exciting opportunity to work with the corporate nursing, clinical pharmacy and wider multidisciplinary teams to ensure a high standard of patient care with regard to medicines safety. As a Medicines Management Lead, you will participate and/or lead on developments in clinical practice, with respect to the safe, and effective management of medicines. It is a great opportunity for you to provide leadership, support and co-ordination for the implementation of the medicines optimisation strategy.
The role requires post holder to work in collaboration with Medicines Safety & Governance Pharmacist to promote and improve medication safety throughout the trust. You will be expected to disseminate incident learning and assist in implementation of error reduction strategies across the trust. Your role also involves supporting the production, education, training and dissemination of documentation in relation to medicines management and safety. Working with a wider multidisciplinary team, you will use appropriate skill mix to ensure best practice is employed, monitored and assured for medicines safety.


Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation at the Trust are well developed and we aim to provide high quality care with an emphasis on services to patients, through a modernised lean process. The department is committed to the use of new technology and we use ASCribe/EMIS, Omnicell electronic storage cabinets, 2 state-of-the-art BD Rowa Vmax robots, and have implemented ChemoCare and TrakCare electronic prescribing systems.
At North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust our main priority is, and always will be, to provide safe and high quality care to our patients every day the kind of care we would want for ourselves and our loved ones. We will support staff through providing an inclusive and supportive workplace with health and well-being initiatives, staff benefits and opportunities for personal and professional development. Staff recognition is very important to us as well as performance reviews and appraisals, we recognise staff through Star and Team of the month, colleague recognition - a note of thanks, Managers Awards, Shining Stars and Service Awards.


To provide leadership, support and co-ordination for the implementation of safe medicines practice. Lead on project management of all aspects of effective medicines management throughout the Trust e.g. medicines storage, use of patient own drugs and self-administration, ward temperature monitoring. To support the quality strategy on reduction of medication harm and improvement. Contribute to the development of best practice in medicines administration, which include update and implementation of relevant guidelines, care pathways and Trust wide policies and procedures. To plan, develop, organize and implement educational programs to improve practice around medicines management. Work as part of the Pharmacy team to deliver a high quality service to patients and users, adhering to standards of service delivery.


Qualifications & Training
Registered healthcare professionals with relevant and significant experience at Band 6 or above
Patient Safety Level 1& 2 (ESR)
Quality Improvement Training e.g. Qualifications in medicines management
Experience of managing medicines in any setting e.g. safe and secure handling of medicines, administration of medicines.
Education and training experience

Significant previous clinical experience (senior level) or have experience in medicines management services
Previous experience of project management.
Experience of quality improvement methodology
Involvement in a project or service development

North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust
University Hospital of North Tees


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