# Specialist Pharmacist - Medication Safety & Governance > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-pharmacist-medication-safety-and-governance/30175388-7281-46ec-9ab7-da96bcf749c9 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-pharmacist-medication-safety-and-governance/30175388-7281-46ec-9ab7-da96bcf749c9.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Luton and Dunstable University Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Pharmacist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £57,528 - £64,750 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent: 37.5 hours a week including late, weekend and on call commitments - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week (including late, weekend and on call commitments) - **Closing date:** 2026-10-23T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-09T13:16:17.139Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Bedfordshire/Luton/Bedfordshire_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Pharmacy/Pharmacy-v8344392 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8344392?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.ldh.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Medication Safety & Governance Pharmacist to join our friendly and supportive Medicines Use, Safety, Governance and Quality team within the Pharmacy Department at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We are a dynamic and compassionate team who collectively aspire to deliver a safe and effective service for our staff and patients, in line with our Trust objectives. The post-holder will form part of the medication safety team, working closely with the Medication Safety Officer, Medication Safety Matron and wider patient safety team, providing expert clinical input trust-wide to support the safe, effective and evidence-based use of medicines across the Trust. The post holder will play a key role in driving quality improvement, governance and service development. ### Main duties of the job - Support the Principal Pharmacist – Medication Safety and Governance (Medication Safety Officer) to improve medicaiton error incident reporting and learning within the Trust and coordinating, monitoring and auditing the required actions to ensure compliance with Care Quality Commission criteria - Actively support the Principal Pharmacist – Medication Safety and Governance (Medication Safety Officer), to improve medication safety within the trust and to ensure good clinical governance, audit and risk management within medicines management activities - Plan, develop, coordinate and audit the impact of medicines safety initiatives across the Trust. This will involve close working with other members of the multidisciplinary patient safety team. - Be a key member of the Pharmacy Clinical Governance Meetings, Pharmacy Weekly and Monthly incident Meetings - Provide support and advice on medicines related Patient safety incident response framework (PSIRF) actions, ensuring any agreed plans or areas of concern are fully integrated into the overall Quality Management System within Pharmacy - Support the running of the Trust Medicines Safety Committee (MSC), including reporting output of designated subgroups; to produce Trust wide medicines safety communication and to assist with the Trust PSIRF agenda work streams ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Refer to Job Description for further details. - Medication Safety & Governance - Risk Management & Audit - Clinical Pharmacy ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - Enthusiastic and passionate about safe medicines management systems - Ability to thrive on development/change - Flexible and proactive ### Skills **Essential** - Organised and able to devise, plan and manage work programmes - Critical review/analysis and interpretation of clinical literature and medicines legislation - Ability to influence other professionals - Negotiation skills - Report writing - Training and mentoring skills **Desirable** - Ability to formulate, lead and implement service improvements ### Qualifications **Essential** - Pharmacy degree (Masters level) - Registration as a pharmacist with the GPhC - Post graduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent **Desirable** - Accredited Diploma Tutor - Post graduate Masters in Pharmacy - Member of the RPS - Stage 1 Faculty Member (MIFRPS) - Independent Prescriber - QSIR training or equivalent ### Experience and Knowledge **Essential** - Validated expertise in hospital pharmacy - Experience of supervising and training staff - Demonstration of up to date clinical awareness in specialist area - Knowledge and awareness of medication safety developments - Understanding the need of confidentiality awareness at all times - Audit/Research/Project experience - Policy and service development - Evidence of relevant continued professional development - Awareness of current developments in Pharmacy practice **Desirable** - Experience of process redesign / continuous improvement work - Validated project management experience - Experience of coaching staff - Knowledge of improvement methodology tools and techniques - Knowledge of Clinical Governance - Line manager experience ## Documents - [staff benefits (png, 1.6mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2879) - [l&d hospital site map (pdf, 96.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1454) - [staff diversity network (pdf, 140.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2866) - [information for disabled applicants (pdf, 98.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2870) - [specialist pharmacist - medication safety & governance fa (pdf, 120.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10672721) - [specialist pharmacist - medication safety & governance jd (pdf, 240.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10672720) - [specialist pharmacist - medication safety & governance ps (pdf, 104.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10672722) - [disclosure & barring information and recruitment of ex-offenders (pdf, 78.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1456) ## 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.