Overview
The post holder will lead and develop on all aspects of 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.
Date posted: 01 September 2025
Details
Pay scheme: Agenda for Change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £38,682 to £46,580 a year per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 407-WCCSS-7409649
Job locations: Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust, Manor Hospital, Moat Rd, Walsall, WS2 9PS
Responsibilities
* Support the work of the Medicines Safety Officer and Medicines Governance Advisor in the promotion of safe medication practices across the organisation.
* Work with partners such as the Trust Assurance Team and the Health and Safety team to ensure the department adheres to the Trust requirements.
* Support the Medicines Safety Officer and Medicines Governance Advisor in writing reports and developing dashboards to provide clear evidence of compliance and escalation where appropriate.
* 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.
* 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 related to risk management and governance; that may impact in the wider Trust. Maintain the departmental SOP register.
* Lead on pharmacy department governance SOPs.
* Advise on actions related to temperature control monitoring systems across the department and wards, liaising with the pharmacy informatics team and the pharmacy staff and the nursing staff.
* Support investigations and responses to patient complaints.
* Medicines Safety: Supports and deputises for the designated Medication Safety Officer and Medicines Governance Advisor for the Trust to manage reported incidents, follow them up and present data on KPIs and trending patterns, including assessments for duty of candour.
* Medicines Safety: Produce routine and ad hoc reports for reporting to pharmacy, divisional teams, Trust wide or ready for external visits such as CQC or MHRA, ensuring the quality of data is validated.
* Medicines Safety: Promotes all staff to improve the reporting and learning from medication related incidents and errors both inside and outside the Trust.
* Medicines Safety: Recommends actions to be taken for improvements following on from incidents including the training and education to be delivered to multi-disciplinary groups for the purpose of patient safety and best practice.
* Medicines Safety: Supports the implementation of changes in practice and processes regarding the safe use of medicines based on national benchmarking and learning.
* Medicines Safety: Communicates and advises on up-to-date information from external bodies such as MHRA and NHSE on best practices on safe usage of medicines, ensuring information is documented.
* Medicines Safety: Carry out medicines related audits as required and support with developing action plans.
* Medicines Safety: To support in the management of drug recalls and alerts, ensuring all actions are complete and documented.
* Medicines Safety: 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.
Qualifications
* Essential: NVQ3, BTEC or equivalent in pharmaceutical science
* Essential: Registered with General Pharmaceutical Council
* Essential: Holds accreditation for checking prescriptions
Experience
* Essential: Experience in writing and implementing departmental SOPs
* Essential: Experienced at undertaking audits and developing action plans
* Desirable: Experience in identifying and managing risk
Skills
* Essential: Good working knowledge of Health and Safety in relation to Pharmacy and medicines
* Essential: Ability to search for relevant information on various databases and evaluate data
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see the NHS Careers website.
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
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.
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.
Employer details
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
Address: Manor Hospital, Moat Rd, Walsall, WS2 9PS
Employer's website: https://walsallhealthcare.nhs.uk
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