Medicines Governance Associate

at  Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Are you looking for a new challenge and the opportunity to develop your skills and knowledge? Do you want to work as part of an innovative, friendly team with opportunities to work in specialised areas?
The pharmacy medicines safety & governance team are delighted to be able to offer a vacancy to come and join our fantastic, high performing team. This exciting position will offer the successful candidate an opportunity to carry out and analyse clinical audits working across multi-disciplinary teams to support the Trusts Medicines Safety Agenda. The team strives to improve the safe and effective use of medicines across the organisation to deliver the best quality care to our patients. The successful candidate will gain both experience and skills/knowledge in relation to medicines management, quality improvement, safety and governance.
You will be an effective team player who is able to prioritise their own workload, have effective written and oral communication, interpersonal, IT and time management skills.
This post is based across both sites - Royal Preston Hospital and Chorley and South Ribble Hospital.
If all of the above applies to you and you would like to know more or arrange a visit, please feel free to contact us to discuss further.
Working closely with the Medicines Safety & Governance Pharmacists and Specialist Safety & Governance Pharmacy Technicians, the Medicines Governance Associate will facilitate a range of medication and patient safety audits. The successful candidate will work with the team to analyse the audit data, feedback to service managers and provide evidence and assurances to the department and external stakeholders that Lancashire Teaching Hospitals (LTHTR) are providing a high quality, patient focused and safe service.
We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet a range of healthcare professionals & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.
You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
Key Responsibilities
Controlled Drugs checks and audits with another qualified staff member
Safe and secure handling of medication audits
Department assurance audits
Project work aiming to reduce the level of risks determined on the Pharmacy Department’s Risk Register
NPSA alert reviews with Safety team

MHRA and CQC actions with Safety team

• ️ Unlicensed medicines

️ Patient Group direction / Overlabelled medication audits
Data collection and input onto correct systems – AMaT/DATIX/Excel spreadsheets
Analysis of all data collected and presentation to relevant committees and area managers
⏫ Escalation of breaches or audit failures to the appropriate contact in the Pharmacy Safety and Governance Team
Training compliance audit work
All staff are expected to act in accordance with the values and behaviours of the Trust and where appropriate the GPhC Standards for Pharmacy Professional

Please refer the Job description for details