Medication Safety Officer - Prestwich, United Kingdom - Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

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Prestwich, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

As well as governance, the role can also have a clinical aspect associated with it as per relevant clinical registration, in order to experience front line services first-hand.

The Pharmacy Department at GMMH has over 70 members of staff, distributed over a number of sites.

An innovative, friendly and supportive team, now is great time to join us as we continue on our Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (ePMA) journey.

The post-holder will provide leadership around medication errors, ensuring learning from such incidents is embedded into practice and shared across the GMMH footprint.

Having great interpersonal skills, they will co-chair the Medication Safety Committee, highlighting trends and areas of concerns, following analysis of the data generated from our incident management system.

Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 6,400 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 160 locations.

We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford, Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.

Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work.

From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.

Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.

Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.

See attached detailed job description and person specification:
Staff benefits

Pay Enhancements 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays.
27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
Excellent pension
Cycle to work scheme
Salary sacrifice car scheme
Wellbeing programme
Blue Light Card Discounts