Medicine Safety Officer / NMP Lead

This is a fantastic opportunity to work alongside a dedicated team of Pharmacy and Nursing colleagues to prioritise patient safety and support medicines optimisation across our organisation. The post holder will lead and support our team of medicines management nurses who provide oversight of medicines practice across the Trust. The role involves managing a number of key projects, leading on staff training, policy development and incident management. The post holder will work closely with the Patient Safety Team and across multi-disciplinary teams to ensure staff are confident and competent in their ability to manage medicines, whilst providing ongoing assurance to our commissioners and the CQC. Alongside this, the post holder will lead on the Non-Medical Prescribing (NMP) Strategy for the Trust. This will support the ongoing development of our Non-Medical Prescribing workforce and ensure such roles are considered and aligned to relevant teams to provide essential timely access to care, workforce development and cost efficiencies. Together, our team are committed to providing high quality services and deliver safe outcomes for patient care, ensuring medicines are managed safely and effectively across our Organisation. You will be working alongside an outstanding Senior Leadership Team, with a wealth of experience and support available., The post holder will be a senior clinical nurse who will act as the Medication Safety Officer for the Trust and provide line management to the team of Medicines Management Nurses who support networks across the Trust. You will be responsible for ensuring that the systems and processes in place provide an appropriate framework for safe prescribing and administration of medicines by the appropriate professional groups and that assurance can be provided regarding the competency of such staff. The overall objectives of the post will be to optimise Medicines Management Systems within the Trust to ensure safe outcomes of patient care considering national and professional standards, learning from incidents and complaints. Alongside Medicines Management, the post holder will work with relevant stakeholders to lead Non-Medical prescribing across the Trust to ensure that staff are working safely and effectively within their competence to prescribe effectively for patients in their care, improving patients' access to medicines, through innovative business planning aimed at increasing choice and maximising benefits. They will ensure that the Non-Medical Prescribing agenda has high priority, e.g. through Service Development and integration of care pathways. There will be a requirement to travel to all localities in the Trust.

We have an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled, enthusiastic and motivated nurse, with previous experience in a senior nurse leadership role, to join our pharmacy and medicines management team within LSCFT.

Band 8b Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism and community based services for the populations we serve. As an integrated mental health, learning disability and community Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including:

• Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, forensic services including low and medium secure care.
• Specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
• Community physical health and well-being services for children and adults.
The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,000 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health and general nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers. Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust supports flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, home/remote working, and flexi-time. For more information visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT., The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area. Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview. For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT