Job summary
Great things are happening in our Hospital Pharmacy Services across University Hospitals Liverpool Group (UHLG). UHLG is one of largest and most complex NHS organisations in the UK, serving a large, diverse and deprived population.
Following a successful business case, we're expanding our services at Liverpool Women's Hospital (LWH) - and we're thrilled to offer several new roles to support our passionate and dedicated pharmacy team.
We are looking for a dynamic and forward-thinking pharmacist to work with our medication safety officer to lead the medicines safety programme at the Liverpool Women's Hospital.
This role is ideally suited to candidates with a passion for medicines safety who want to grow in a leadership role. The successful candidate must have strong interpersonal skills, the desire to network and collaborate, together with the ability to inspire a team towards continuous improvement.
Do you have an enquiring mind and a knowledge of system-based approaches to incident investigation? Join us to make medicines use safer at Liverpool Women's Hospital.
Main duties of the job
The post holder, along with the Lead Pharmacist for Transformation and Medicines Safety (Medicines Safety Officer), support the development, delivery, monitoring and optimisation of the trust-wide medication safety agenda and improvement plans.
They will facilitate the reporting, review and investigation of medication errors, near-misses, issues and risks. They will also identify medicines-related themes and trends from incident and other available data and develop system-based action plans and risk reduction strategies. They will also facilitate organisational learning and improvement following medication incidents.
They will develop communications and share learning from medication errors across the organisation and wider safety network and organisational interfaces.
About us
Liverpool Women's NHS FT became part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group (UHLG) in November 2024, following the coming together with Liverpool University Hospitals NHS FT. UHLG was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide to our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues who are dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond. For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, UHLG is also their local NHS, providing general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
At Liverpool Women's Hospital, each year we deliver approximately 7,500 babies, carry out around 50,000 gynaecological inpatient and outpatient procedures, care for over 1,000 poorly and premature newborns, perform around 1,000 IVF cycles, and conduct over 4,000 genetic appointments.
We believe that this, along with a strong dedication to research and innovation, makes usthespecialist health provider of choice in Europe for women, babies and families.
For roles at Liverpool University Hospitals, visit their careers page.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Act as the nominated deputy for the Trust Medication Safety Officer and fulfil the requirements of the role in line with national guidance including the National Patient Safety Alert; NHS/PSA/D/2014/005.
Collaborate with the Medication Safety Officer, Chief Pharmacist, Clinical Lead for Medicines Safety, the Medicines Safety matron and the pharmacy Senior Leadership Team to develop, implement and maintain effective medicines safety strategies, policies and improvement plans (Medicines Safety Improvement Plan).
Be a designated lead contact for the Trust for the reporting and investigation of medicines-related incidents, issues and concerns.
Oversee and analyse the reporting of medication incidents and near-misses within the Trust incident reporting system and to ensure appropriate and proportionate level of investigations/reviews are undertaken.
Provide pharmacist and medicines safety representation and expert input at serious incident investigation panel meetings and other incidents requiring high level of investigation within the Trust; assisting or leading (where appropriate) the investigation and development and implementation of the improvement plan.
For full details, please refer to the attached job description
Job description
Job responsibilities
Act as the nominated deputy for the Trust Medication Safety Officer and fulfil the requirements of the role in line with national guidance including the National Patient Safety Alert; NHS/PSA/D/2014/005.
Collaborate with the Medication Safety Officer, Chief Pharmacist, Clinical Lead for Medicines Safety, the Medicines Safety matron and the pharmacy Senior Leadership Team to develop, implement and maintain effective medicines safety strategies, policies and improvement plans (Medicines Safety Improvement Plan).
Be a designated lead contact for the Trust for the reporting and investigation of medicines-related incidents, issues and concerns.
Oversee and analyse the reporting of medication incidents and near-misses within the Trust incident reporting system and to ensure appropriate and proportionate level of investigations/reviews are undertaken.
Provide pharmacist and medicines safety representation and expert input at serious incident investigation panel meetings and other incidents requiring high level of investigation within the Trust; assisting or leading (where appropriate) the investigation and development and implementation of the improvement plan.
For full details, please refer to the attached job description
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Vocational masters degree in pharmacy
- Membership of the GPhC
- Post graduate diploma is clinical pharmacy
Desirable
- MRPharmS membership
- Training in incident investigation, human factors and/or QI
Experience
Essential
- Relevant post diploma clinical experience at specialist clinical pharmacist level in a range of specialities within secondary care.
- Demonstrable commitment to continuing professional development / education.
- Previous knowledge and experience of medicines incident review, investigation and contributory factor/human factor assessment.
- Evidence of involvement in and undertaking of audit/service evaluation.
Desirable
- Experience of providing teaching/education sessions to multi-professional groups.
- Experience of leading and managing change projects to improve services/systems.
Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team.
- Self-motivating and able to motivate/inspire others.
- Ability to work well under pressure to meet deadlines
- Ability to affect and manage change.
Desirable
- Awareness of the requirements of Patient Safety Incident Response Framework.
- Analytical and data manipulation skills.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Vocational masters degree in pharmacy
- Membership of the GPhC
- Post graduate diploma is clinical pharmacy
Desirable
- MRPharmS membership
- Training in incident investigation, human factors and/or QI
Experience
Essential
- Relevant post diploma clinical experience at specialist clinical pharmacist level in a range of specialities within secondary care.
- Demonstrable commitment to continuing professional development / education.
- Previous knowledge and experience of medicines incident review, investigation and contributory factor/human factor assessment.
- Evidence of involvement in and undertaking of audit/service evaluation.
Desirable
- Experience of providing teaching/education sessions to multi-professional groups.
- Experience of leading and managing change projects to improve services/systems.
Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team.
- Self-motivating and able to motivate/inspire others.
- Ability to work well under pressure to meet deadlines
- Ability to affect and manage change.
Desirable
- Awareness of the requirements of Patient Safety Incident Response Framework.
- Analytical and data manipulation skills.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
