Senior Pharmacy Technician Medicines Safety and Pharmacy Governance
Overview
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Responsibilities
* Lead and develop governance and assurance across the Pharmacy Department and support the Medicines Safety Officer and Medicines Governance Advisor with medicines safety and governance across the organisation.
* Support the Medicines Governance Advisor with identifying and managing risks and ensuring the risk register is maintained and presented monthly to divisional quality board and pharmacy quality team.
* Work with pharmacy department risk owners and assessors to develop appropriate actions to mitigate risk and ensure these are completed in a timely manner.
* Actively contribute to departmental audits, developing action plans and ensuring actions are completed in a timely manner.
* Ensure all statutory audits and reviews for pharmacy are completed and resulting outcomes actioned.
* Support the work of the Medicines Safety Officer and Medicines Governance Advisor in the promotion of safe medication practices across the organisation.
* Provide training to the pharmacy team on incident reporting, incident management, risk management and health and safety practices.
* Lead on Health and Safety within the department advising on all aspects of Health and Safety including fire, first aid, working with equipment and Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH).
* Ensure all mandatory Health and Safety reporting using approved audit tools for the Pharmacy is completed timely and reported to the pharmacy quality teams and to the Trust.
* Compile reports on all aspects of pharmacy governance and medicines management.
* Coordinate the production and review of pharmacy SOPs and policies and write any relating to risk management and governance; maintain the departmental SOP register; lead on pharmacy governance SOPs.
* Advise on actions regarding temperature control monitoring systems across the department and wards, liaising with the pharmacy informatics team and pharmacy staff and the nursing staff.
* Support with investigating and responding to patient complaints.
* Medicines Safety: Support and deputise for the designated Medication Safety Officer and Medicines Governance Advisor to manage reported incidents, follow them up and present data on KPIs and trending patterns, including duties of candour.
* Produce routine and ad hoc reports for reporting to pharmacy, divisional teams, Trust-wide or external visits (e.g., CQC or MHRA), ensuring data quality and validation.
* Promote all staff to improve reporting and learning from medication-related incidents and errors both inside and outside of the Trust.
* Recommends actions to be taken for improvements following incidents, including training and education to be delivered to multi-disciplinary groups for patient safety and best practice.
* Support implementation of changes in practice and processes regarding the safe use of medicines based on national benchmarking and learning.
* Communicate and advise on up-to-date information from external bodies such as MHRA and NHSE on best practices for safe usage of medicines, ensuring information is documented.
* Carry out medicines-related audits as required and support with developing action plans.
* Support in the management of drug recalls and alerts, ensuring all actions are complete and documented.
* Work closely with all healthcare professionals including medical and nursing staff groups and pharmacy staff to ensure the highest standards possible are achieved for medication safety across the organisation.
The Post Holder Will
Support the work of the Medicines Safety Officer and Medicines Governance Advisor in the promotion of safe medication practices across the organisation.
Role Details
* Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
* Employment type: Contract
* Job function: Health Care Provider
* Industries: Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
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