Medicines Optimisation and Governance Lead

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities., We are looking to appoint a experienced clinician to a new role within our medicines management governance team with drive and aptitude to become part of a dynamic and developing Pharmacy Team. We are committed to developing and training our staff and you will work in a supportive environment with training opportunities, to build on your foundation skills and develop your expertise. These posts are open to all staff who meet the essential criteria.

You will join our dynamic, Trust wide medicines management governance team in providing medicines optimisation, medicines governance oversight, quality improvement and support safe use of medicines across the Trust.

The Medicines Optimisation Lead will work closely with the whole Medicines Governance Team reporting to the Medicines Management Quality and Governance Group and ultimately to the Drug and Therapeutics Committee to deliver on relevant objectives within the Medicines Optimisation Strategy on community division.

You will be supported in any ongoing studies relevant to the role.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Shortlisting planned for: 7 October 2024

Interview planned for: 10 October 2024 (subject to change), This Medicines Optimisation Lead role will oversee key areas within the medicines governance in the Trust including medicines information, audit, medicines procedures and antimicrobial resistance in the community division.

You will be joining the medicines management governance team consisting of experienced pharmacy clinicians. You will be expected to work as part of the multidisciplinary team to deliver support for the management of medicines incidents within the Trust, with a focus on supporting mental health services.

You will have the opportunity to develop your practice in a wide range of clinical areas in a large organisation but as part of smaller supportive medicines management teams.

You will be expected to co-ordinate work plans, oversee medicines governance activities, write reports, attend key internal and external meetings and lead meetings that are relevant to your role.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together.

We call this continuous improvement in quality and cost, 'striving for perfect care'. Our aim is to play a full part in the health and social care economies we serve, by promoting and driving greater integration between mental and physical health and social care.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North-West, serving more than 11 million people.We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.Our inpatient services cover a wide