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Advanced Pharmacist Medicines Safety

Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust
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Location
Salary
£53,755 - £60,504 per annum
Profession
Pharmacist
Grade
Band 8
Deadline
06 Jul 2025
Contract Type
Permanent
Posted Date
23 Jun 2025

Job overview

Great things are happening in our Hospital Pharmacy Services across University Hospitals Liverpool Group (UHLG). UHLG is one of largest and most complex NHS organisations in the UK, serving a large, diverse and deprived population.

Following a successful business case, we’re expanding our services at Liverpool Women’s Hospital (LWH) – and we’re thrilled to offer several new roles to support our passionate and dedicated pharmacy team.

We are looking for a dynamic and forward-thinking pharmacist to work with our medication safety officer to lead the medicines safety programme at the Liverpool Women’s Hospital.

This role is ideally suited to candidates with a passion for medicines safety who want to grow in a leadership role. The successful candidate must have strong interpersonal skills, the desire to network and collaborate, together with the ability to inspire a team towards continuous improvement.

Do you have an enquiring mind and a knowledge of system-based approaches to incident investigation? Join us to make medicines use safer at Liverpool Women’s Hospital.

Main duties of the job

The post holder, along with the Lead Pharmacist for Transformation and Medicines Safety (Medicines Safety Officer), support the development, delivery, monitoring and optimisation of the trust-wide medication safety agenda and improvement plans.

They will facilitate the reporting, review and investigation of medication errors, near-misses, issues and risks. They will also identify medicines-related themes and trends from incident and other available data and develop system-based action plans and risk reduction strategies. They will also facilitate organisational learning and improvement following medication incidents.

They will develop communications and share learning from medication errors across the organisation and wider safety network and organisational interfaces.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Act as the nominated deputy for the Trust Medication Safety Officer and fulfil the requirements of the role in line with national guidance including the National Patient Safety Alert; NHS/PSA/D/2014/005.

Collaborate with the Medication Safety Officer, Chief Pharmacist, Clinical Lead for Medicines Safety, the Medicines Safety matron and the pharmacy Senior Leadership Team to develop, implement and maintain effective medicines safety strategies, policies and improvement plans (Medicines Safety Improvement Plan).

Be a designated lead contact for the Trust for the reporting and investigation of medicines-related incidents, issues and concerns.

Oversee and analyse the reporting of medication incidents and near-misses within the Trust incident reporting system and to ensure appropriate and proportionate level of investigations/reviews are undertaken.

Provide pharmacist and medicines safety representation and expert input at serious incident investigation panel meetings and other incidents requiring high level of investigation within the Trust; assisting or leading (where appropriate) the investigation and development and implementation of the improvement plan.

For full details, please refer to the attached job description