Medicines Safety Lead Pharmacist

Job Description

Medicines Safety Lead PharmacistMedicines Safety is a national priority and a key workstream for the EMAHSN Network. This role will lead on the delivery of the growing range of medicine safety focussed programmes, as well as providing specialist medicine safety advice across EMAHSN portfolio. It will also be responsible for horizon scanning and identifying medicine safety solutions and innovations, to provide valuable insights for the wider EMAHSN teams, AHSN Network and the East Midlands Health and Care system.We are seeking a highly motivated, passionate and creative problem solver with excellent communication and influencing skills, working across organisational boundaries to bring together the right people to facilitate demonstrator projects and adoption and spread of medicine safety activities. You will enjoy working collaboratively, feel confident to challenge the status quo, be prepared to adapt and seek mutually beneficial solutions to issues.Reporting to the Consultant Pharmacist – Medicines Optimisation and working closely with the Head of Patient Safety, the post holder will also work with colleagues across other AHSNs to deliver collective AHSN Network medicine safety activities and initiatives.The post holder will have excellent leadership experience working across organisations at a regional level, as well as extensive change management experience in health and social care successfully delivering sustained change. You will need to demonstrate an ability to develop and implement medicine safety programme plans in unique partnerships / stakeholder environments, as well as have experience of undertaking and publishing audit/research work related to medicines safety at a national level.This role is offered as a permanent contracton a basis of 30 hours per week over 4 working daysThe provisional date for interview is Friday 13th November 2020About EMAHSNThe East Midlands Academic Health Science Network (EMAHSN) is one of 15 AHSNs established by the NHS in 2013. We work in our local areas to identify and spread healthcare innovation – helping the NHS do things better and cheaper.This involves working as an ‘honest broker’ bringing together many partners across sectors: the NHS, public health, local government, universities, voluntary organisations and healthcare companies.As well as working in our own regions the 15 AHSNs collaborate as a national network to take what works best locally and quickly spread it throughout England.Based on our outstanding impacts during our first 5 year licences, the AHSNs were relicensed from April 2018 to operate as the key innovation arm of the NHS.Most AHSNs are ‘hosted’ within an NHS Trust. EMAHSN is hosted by Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH). Whilst we are employed by NUH and follow the Trust’s policies and procedures, we operate as a standalone organisation with our own work programmes and separate offices, budgets, governance arrangements, branding and visual identity.For further details / informal visits contact:Kate Dawson - Consultant Pharmacist – Medicines Optimisationkate.dawson@nottingham.ac.uk /