Senior Pharmacy Technician Medicines Safety

Job description Job responsibilities Lead for coordinating action across the Trust to improve compliance with controlled drugs and medicines storage standards in line with legislation, in liaison with the Lead Pharmacist/Technician Medicines Safety. This role will be responsible for: Provision of specialist advice, tools and upskilling of pharmacy/multi-disciplinary teams across the Trust to enable them to address safe storage requirements when clinical areas are moved/re-designed. Developing and undertaking audits to assess compliance with CDs and storage standards for controlled drugs and other medicines; and engaging teams Trust-wide to improve practice. Act as a point of contact and resource for pharmacy, medicines management and storage issues, audit and improvement projects, and health and safety. Support the Divisional/Trust governance leads in recording, monitoring and feeding back on safety issues, incidents (clinical and non-clinical) and risks within the Division. Represent the medicines safety team at Trust meetings and at relevant pharmacy department section meetings to provide specialist safety and quality guidance and ensure best practice. Undertake medicines safety incident investigations within pharmacy, developing appropriate preventative actions and lessons learned. Support the reporting of clinical and non-clinical incidents and near misses across the organisation. Assist in the development of a just and learning culture by engaging managers and staff to identify system failures which contribute to incidents. Make a significant contribution to the development of medicines safety improvement strategies and annual plans. Design and undertake audit, research and improvement projects within the Department/Trust wide. Collecting, interpreting and analysing data; developing improvement actions; engaging stakeholders and evaluating effectiveness. Initiate service/quality improvement ideas and play a key role in generating a culture of continual improvement within the department. Support actions in response to National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) alerts and notices and ensure that responses are provided to required timelines. Deputise for Lead Pharmacist/Technician Medicines Safety to ensure the medicines safety agenda is delivered in line with trust priorities and timelines. Represent the Pharmacy Department in Trust-wide meetings and provide specialist guidance, to ensure high standards of governance are consistently practiced