Medication Safety Officer and Governance Lead

at  Whittington Health NHS Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a pharmacist with drive and enthusiasm to play a pivotal role in Medicines Safety and Clinical Governance across Whittington Trust.
Are you up for the challenge in building excellence?
Are you passionate about working with a wide range of healthcare processionals to promote a positive safety culture? If so, then this is the perfect opportunity for you.
We are looking for an experienced Pharmacist with extensive clinical pharmacy knowledge, excellent communication skills and a strive for excellence.
The post holder will be expected to forge strong professional relationships across the trust and be responsible for the leading on patient safety and clinical governance initiatives relating to medicines management including Controlled Drugs. They will be pivotal in the ongoing development and delivery of the trust medication safety programme.
The post holder will need to have the ability to work with a wide range of multidisciplinary teams and be a key member of a number of groups and committees concerned with patient safety internally as well as externally.
This role requires a zeal for professionalism, and a genuine drive to help patients by evaluating clinical risks and critical incidents. You will be working to provide practical clinical solutions, to support and change patients’ lives for the better.
We look forward to taking these next steps of this journey with you!
Apply today.
For more information relating to the main duties of the role, please refer to the Job Description included in this advert
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
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