Senior Specialist Pharmacist - Medicines Safety & Governance

Overview

In this role you lead medicines safety and governance across the hospital, partnering with pharmacy leadership to drive incident investigation, risk management and response to national patient safety initiatives. You will collaborate with pharmacy, nursing and medical teams to improve patient safety, learning and cost-efficient care. The post supports delivery of safer medicines use and governance standards within a large, integrated pharmacy service. You will contribute to a culture of safety and continuous quality improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead medicines safety, governance and risk management activities across the site
• Investigate medication incidents, identify trends and implement safety improvements
• Coordinate organisational responses to national patient safety alerts and medicines safety initiatives
• Provide expert advice on safe and effective medicines use to pharmacy, medical and nursing teams
• Develop policies, guidelines, audits and governance processes to improve patient safety
• Deliver training, mentorship and leadership to foster a positive medicines safety culture
• Monitor medicines safety performance and contribute to quality improvement programmes
• Support compliance with CQC, PSIRF and national medicines governance standards

Key requirements

• Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
• Registered Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent relevant postgraduate clinical qualification
• Pharmacist independent prescribing accreditation or actively working towards qualification
• Evidence of CPD and ongoing education
• Wealth of experience in clinical pharmacy within a hospital setting
• Experience in developing professional relationships with other healthcare professionals
• Experience in leading and contributing to research, audit and service improvement projects
• Experience in multidisciplinary service development
• Experience in delivering Education & Training

• leadership
• collaboration across multidisciplinary teams
• effective communication
• medicines safety governance
• incident investigation
• risk management

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