# Medication Safety Officer and Governance Lead > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Whittington Health NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/medication-safety-officer-and-governance-lead/c93b96aa-6a82-4c34-a47b-13d243ec3108 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/medication-safety-officer-and-governance-lead/c93b96aa-6a82-4c34-a47b-13d243ec3108.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Whittington Health NHS Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Administrative and IT - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £66,274 - £73,496 Inclusive of Inner HCAs per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (plus weekends, bank holidays and on-call.) - **Closing date:** 2026-06-30T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-16T14:22:02.922Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Whittington_Health_NHS_Trust/Medication_Safety_Officer_Governance_Lead/Medication_Safety_Officer_Governance_Lead-v8024796 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8024796?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.whittington.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview 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. We look forward to taking these next steps of this journey with you! Apply today! Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for further details ### Main duties of the job For more information relating to the main duties of the role, please refer to the Job Description included in this advert ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities For more information relating to the main duties and responsibilities of the role, please refer to the Job Description included in this advert ## Job Details 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. We look forward to taking these next steps of this journey with you! Apply today! Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for further details ## Job Description For more information relating to the main duties of the role, please refer to the Job Description included in this advert ## Responsibilities For more information relating to the main duties and responsibilities of the role, please refer to the Job Description included in this advert ## Person Specification ### Personal Qualities **Essential** - Reliable, Self-motivated. - Able to set realistic goals and outcomes and use these to motivate themselves and their team. - Able to work under pressure whilst maintaining accuracy and attention to detail. - Able to work on own initiative or as part of a multidisciplinary team. - Demonstrates initiative, and motivation & enthusiasm for the post. - Commitment to continuing personal development. - Knowledge and understanding of equality and diversity issues and how personally can make a positive difference to this agenda. **Desirable** - Ability to articulate their own leadership style ### Skills & Abilities **Essential** - High-level clinical skills sufficient to engage in appropriate dialogue with senior clinicians around complex clinical cases. - Good written and oral communication skills and able to communicate with patients and all grades of healthcare staff (verbally and in writing). - Good negotiation skills and the ability to influence senior pharmacy and medical staff, the multidisciplinary team and management. - Experience of supervising and training junior pharmacists and wider pharmacy team members - Experience of providing education and training to pharmacy staff, nursing staff and doctors. - Good interpersonal and negotiation skills. - Good problem-solving & numeracy skills - Ability to evaluate and to plan service developments - Understand, articulate and apply the principles of change management to the healthcare setting **Desirable** - Demonstrates abilities to drive quality improvement and digital innovation to support medicines safety ### Knowledge & Experience **Essential** - Demonstrates a whole-system patient-focused approach to work. - Good understanding of the role of medication safety & clinical governance within the acute setting and how this supports patient care. - Good understanding of the role of medication safety & clinical governance within the community setting and how this supports patient care. - Good working knowledge of clinical governance and medicines management issues. - Relevant clinical experience from working in an acute hospital setting. - Appropriate knowledge of the legal requirements when dealing with and processing Controlled Drugs - Involvement in the writing of clinical guidelines and medicines policies. - Experience as a line manager. - Experience of appraising staff and giving feedback. - Experience in education and training and acting as a clinical supervisor. - Experience of conducting medicines management audits and producing action plans and reports, based on data. **Desirable** - Experience of coordinating drug recalls/MHRA alerts/CAS and clinical alerts. - Knowledge of national bodies responsible for supporting clinical governance and medicine safety in the acute hospital setting. - Experience of conducting medication error investigations and producing action plans linked to service improvement. - Experience of contributing to, or leading quality improvement projects. - An understanding of what integrated care is and how this applies to Pharmacy. - Knowledge of the wider NCL healthcare system and priorities. - An understanding of how digital tools / EPR functionality can improve clinical practice in the inpatient setting. - Working within the PSIRF and CQC Framework. ### Education/Qualifications **Essential** - MPharm (or equivalent) - Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council - Further post graduate qualification Diploma/MSc in Pharmacy Practice or Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent **Desirable** - Membership of the RPS and relevant professional clinical group (e.g. Meds Safety Network or UKCPA) - Independent prescriber - Leadership or Management qualification ## Documents - [functional requirements (pdf, 211.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10311579) - [whittington employment promise (pdf, 22.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=839) - [whittington probationary policy (pdf, 298.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=621) - [welcome from the chief pharmacist (pdf, 189.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10311580) - [job description and personal specification (pdf, 345.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10377876) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.