Senior Lead Pharmacist - Medicines Safety, Risk & Physical Health

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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, as we:

• 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

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.

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

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

As a values-driven Trust, we recruit through our values. Our selection processes focus on behaviours, attitudes, and examples that reflect our organisational values and commitment to compassionate, high-quality care.

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

They will:

• Be the trust designated Medicines Safety Officer and have a lead role in developing systems to optimise safe medication practice and organisational learning.
• Lead on and deliver the Trust medicines safety programme and ensure that 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.
• Be the trust designated lead for antimicrobial stewardship.

Lead the Trust Medicines Safety Programme and act as 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 training, development and supervision.
• Contribute to service development, QI activity, audits and research.

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme.
• Excellent internal staff network.

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

• Higher degree/diploma in…