Pharmacy Healthcare Governance Manager - #1762147

Following the retirement of the existing postholder, there is an exciting opportunity to join the Senior Pharmacy Management Team at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for the above role.

Medicines safety and governance is mission critical to every aspect of patient care, meaning the strategic importance of this role to the organisation is hugely significant. Developing, leading and delivering the Medicines Safety Strategy at STH is a key role of this post; working with senior consultants, governance leads across the organisation and ICS, and all staff groups within Pharmacy ensures a broad and challenging remit requiring an exceptional candidate.

Acting as Professional Secretary to the Trust’s Medicines Safety Group, the ideal candidate will posses excellent time management, critical analysis, incident investigation, action plan development and report writing skills, along with a governance-focussed yet practical medicines safety mindset.

The trust will give you time to use your skills and help you develop a fulfilling career as well as a commitment to support flexible working and can support such things as, part time hours, condensed hours, or job share. These options are not exhaustive, and we would encourage candidates to state any forms of flexible working they would like to explore in their application.

Main duties of the job

• Leading the Medicines Safety agenda at a Trust-level.
• Ensuring STH compliance with complex legal and statutory requirements around medicines are met.
• Act as lead author for the Trust wide Medicines Code.
• Oversee medicines recalls, patient safety alerts and action plan development.
• Develop and disseminate medicines safety bulletins and other communications/training on medicines safety issues.
• Lead on the development and maintenance of Pharmacy Risk Register entries, incident/complaint responses and corresponding action plans.
• Oversee Clinical Audit Programme & represent Pharmacy on the Safety and Risk Forum.
• Oversee the Pharmacy Quality Improvement programme.
• Directly support the Chief Pharmacist in ensuring all policies and procedures relating to medicines safety are introduced effectively across the organisation.
• Providing management support to approximately 9wte staff.
  
  

You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. It is an energetic and vibrant organisation that places patients and staff at the heart of everything they do. We provide a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Sheffield, as well as specialist care for patients from further afield, including cancer, spinal cord injuries, renal and cardiothoracic services.

As a teaching hospital, we have a great commitment to education, training, and development of staff, including undergraduates from many professions. You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all its staff and the community it services. The NHS offers a wide range of benefits including pension contributions, market leading annual leave allowance and career, not to mention our Blue Light Card and NHS exclusive discounts.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Graham Marsh Job title: Chief Pharmacist Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 0114 271 4164

Nicky Thomas

Pharmacy Healthcare Governance Manager (existing post holder)

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0114 2713007 (Weds-Fri)