Medicines Safety Officer Pharmacist

All references from current and previous employers will be sought and MUST cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Where possible this should be from two separate employers. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed.
PLEASE NOTE it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their DBS certificate if a check is required for the post. This will be done through deduction from your monthly pay over a maximum of three months. It is also a requirement that all successful applicants register or are registered with the DBS update service where a DBS is required.
All new entrants to the NHS will be appointed on the minimum of the pay scale in line with Terms & Conditions., The Pharmacy Department at Gateshead Health is progressive, continually transforming to deliver innovative services and ensure patients get optimal care and outcomes from their medicines.
There is now an excellent opportunity to join our dedicated, supportive and enthusiastic team as the Medicines Safety Officer Pharmacist
This post would be ideal for an ambitious and highly skilled Pharmacist to develop their career and improve medicines safety in a combined Acute and Community NHS Foundation Trust, with the primary focus of providing excellent health services to the local community.
Medicines are the most widely used intervention in health. The Medicines Safety Officer has a key role in delivering the medication safety agenda for the organisation.
We are looking for a motivated, enthusiastic and highly skilled clinical pharmacist, with a keen interest in working in Medicines Safety to lead on managing the risk from medicines, encouraging medicine incident reporting, learning from incidents and promoting the safe use of medicines in the organisation.
This split role will also provide the opportunity for the successful applicant's clinical pharmacy career to develop, continuing to work as a Clinical Pharmacist.
To be successful in this post, the candidate will be of a continuous improvement mindset; be innovative and passionate about improving medicines safety; be able to implement change; and demonstrate commitment to self-development and the development of others., To provide highly specialist advice and information on the safe use of medicines, and to promote good practice on medicines use across Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust.
To be an active member of the National Medicines Safety Network
To collate, analyse and investigate medication incidents, learning from these incidents to improve medication safety for patients
To support the development and review of the Medication Safety Strategy for the organisation and implementation of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework
To be a Clinical Pharmacist within the Clinical Pharmacy team.

Working for our organisation
Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.
Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients.
We now employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region.
Our values should be the 'golden thread' which runs through everything we do - they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronym ICORE; Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement.
We have a number of staff networks including the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network and the Women's Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our Armed Forces network is one of our emerging networks.
The health and wellbeing of our staff is one of our highest priorities, and we offer a range of support and initiatives as part of our 'Balance' programme balancegateshead.com to cater for our diverse workforce, so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.