Medicines Governance Pharmacist and MSO

Are you interested in improving patient safety but still want to be a senior pharmacist with some clinical duties ? This is an excellent opportunity to further develop your leadership, multidisciplinary and clinical skills as well as making a positive difference to medicines safety, This is a well established and respected post within the Trust. The successful candidate leads on all aspects of medicines governance including incidents and security. You will be required to work with clinical teams throughout the hospital to support these activities, in addition to linking with other MSOs. As with other posts in a small department, the post holder's responsibilities are wide-ranging. Time will be given to fulfil expected duties. Along with the other senior pharmacists you will deputise for the Chief Pharmacist in their absence. The pharmacy department serves the whole hospital as well as providing clinical pharmacy services to the adjacent private hospital (The McIndoe centre).,

• Designated Medication Safety Officer for the Trust.
• Lead for clinical risk management for pharmacy, plus audit and assurance programmes in relation to medicines for the Trust.
• Lead pharmacist for a speciality.
• Provide clinical pharmacy services in line with professional, departmental and Trust standards.
• Line manage a band 7 pharmacist.
• Be a senior member of the pharmacy team
You will have exposure to all the specialisms and will be looked to for promoting safe, cost-effective prescribing and medicines optimisation. You will not be expected to have experience of the specialisms covered by the Trust, but must have good broad clinical pharmacy knowledge and skills. Currently there are no weekend duties, but you are expected to provide some bank holiday cover. You may also be expected to work some weekends or late nights in the future. There is a drive to encourage independent prescribing within the Trust and there is the potential for you to undertake the training to support the department on this initiative.

We are looking for a pharmacist to be our Medicines Governance Pharmacist as well as the Trust's Medication Safety Officer (MSO). We need a self-motivated and proactive pharmacist that is passionate about medication safety to join our small, but friendly pharmacy department.

Rated GOOD overall with outstanding care by the CQC. A specialist NHS hospital providing life-changing reconstructive surgery, burns care and rehabilitation services across the South of England and beyond. A centre of excellence, with an international reputation for pioneering advanced techniques and treatments. Everything we do is informed by our passion for providing the highest quality care and the best clinical outcomes. At QVH we are proud of our achievements and our specialist services continue to record excellent clinical outcomes for patients. We regularly receive excellent results from patient satisfaction surveys and on average 98% of inpatients say they would recommend the hospital to their family or friends. Our success is underpinned by the skills and enthusiasm of our staff and a strong culture of partnership. We are fully committed to training and development of the workforce with support for continuing education and learning.