Lead Pharmacist Medicines Safety, Risk and Physical Health

Overview

Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people.

We will achieve this through the North London Way
:

• Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
• Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
• Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
• Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
• Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
• Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do.

The North London Way to deliver:
Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

The trust website is: (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..no

The Senior Lead Pharmacist Medicines Safety, Risk and Physical Health role is a senior role within the Pharmacy Department providing strategic leadership and direction for:

• All aspects of medicines safety
• All aspects of risk identification and management related to medicines use and pharmacy.
• Effective and safe medicines use to optimise the physical health of individuals with mental health conditions, particularly those with complex physical health co‑morbidities.

• Be the Trust’s designated Medicines Safety Officer and lead the development of systems to optimise safe medication practice and organisational learning.
• Lead on and deliver the Trust medicines safety programme, ensuring it develops in line with local, regional and national directives.
• Lead on, and be responsible for collating, analysing, investigating and learning from incidents to improve medication safety for patients.
• Lead on risk management for medicines and pharmacy.
• Lead on initiatives to improve the pharmacological management of physical health co‑morbidities of people living with severe mental illness.
• Act as the Trust’s lead for antimicrobial stewardship and serve as Medicines Safety Officer (MSO).
• Chair the Medicines Safety Group and provide reports to governance committees.
• Oversee medicines‑related incident reporting, analysis, action planning and learning.
• Provide specialist clinical pharmacy input in psychopharmacology and physical health.
• Review and respond to MHRA Drug Safety Updates, CAS alerts, supply notifications and National Patient Safety Alerts.
• Support safe use of emergency medicines and medicines‑related medical devices.
• Lead development and delivery of medicines audit programmes.
• Provide expert leadership to optimise physical healthcare for people with serious mental illness.
• Lead antimicrobial stewardship Trust‑wide.
• Support CQC compliance, risk register management and medicines‑related policies.
• Line‑manage allocated pharmacy staff and oversee their training, development and supervision.
• Contribute to service development, QI activity, audits and research.

• Right to work in the UK and meet UKVI sponsorship guidelines as applicable.
• References covering the last 3 years of employment/training are required (one from your current or most recent employer and others from previous employers). References should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.

We are an equal opportunities employer and commit to creating an inclusive, fair, and supportive workplace for all. We actively welcome applications from individuals who are under‑represented within our workforce and are dedicated to eliminating discrimination in all its forms.

As a Disability Confident (Two Ticks) employer, we guarantee an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role and are committed to making reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

• Development and retention programmes aimed at advancing staff through leadership behaviours.
• Flexible working and a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme.
• Excellent internal staff network.

Please note:

due to the high number of applications, the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the stated closing date.