AddressOxleas NHS Foundation Trust: Bracton Campus
Pharmacy Department
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust provides a wide range of mental health and community health services. These include acute adult and elderly mental health units and community teams based at a number of locations in Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich boroughs, and intermediate and elderly care based at Queen Mary’s Hospital (QMH), Sidcup.
The Trust has dispensaries located at QMH and the Bracton campus, Dartford. The QMH pharmacy store holds a wholesale dealers licence. Within Oxleas, clinical pharmacists are an integral part of the multidisciplinary team, with regular ward attendance and provision of a medicines information service which includes a patient telephone advice line. All bedded services supported by the Bracton campus pharmacy use electronic prescribing and administration software which is linked to the pharmacy dispensing system.
Pharmacy also provide support to patients within the community, including to Community Mental Health teams, a specialist perinatal clinic and a home assessment Medicines Optimisation Service to patients within Bromley.
Oxleas pharmacy department has a long history of innovation. We believe in supporting our pharmacists to develop their full potential, and in particular to develop skills and expertise in medicines related quality improvement projects.
Informal visits welcome.
Pharmacy Team Leader – Operational Services & Medicines Safety Officer
Post overview:
Responsible for delivering, managing, evaluating and developing pharmacy Operational Services in Oxleas NHS Trust, including all aspects of procurement, dispensary services, IT, stock control, training of relevant staff, performance and recruitment issues.
Responsible for all aspects of pharmacy and medicines risk management with the objective of reducing the risks associated with medicines usage across the Trust. To be the Trust Medicines Safety Officer (MSO)
Responsible for the instances of the pharmacy module of the Emishealth computer system, including upkeep of drug files, technical problem solving, drug templates & financial reporting.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
We’re Kind
We’re Fair
We Listen
We Care
To be responsible for managing and supervising all pharmacy Operational Services activity and to ensure that the service provided complies with statutory controls, professional requirements and local/national policies and guidance on medicines and legislation.
To be responsible for procurement of medicines against agreed NHS PASA contracts and to monitor stockholding for the department.
To ensure all medicines are procured according to Trust Standing Financial Instructions and Standing orders and in accordance with relevant Medicines Legislation, Public procurement Law, National Guidance and local Standing Operating Procedures.
To take professional responsibility for clinical screening of prescriptions to ensure the accuracy, legality, safety and efficacy of prescribed medication. Including: -
Liaising with doctors and nurses to resolve any queries arising from the screening process.
Undertaking the final accuracy check on prescriptions dispensed by other pharmacy staff
To provide managerial support and advice to the pharmacy technical staff and provide professional and clinical supervision according to need.
To monitor activity and audit the quality of pharmacy Operational Services and take action as appropriate to improve the quality or develop the service.
To co-ordinate and develop training induction programs for newly appointed staff in the pharmacy dispensary/stores/wards/CMHCs.
To provide enquiry led medicines information, providing clinically sound, evaluated information to a wide variety of complex enquiries from all grades of health care professionals and service users.
To be responsible for organising, coordinating & developing standard operating procedures for the pharmacy emergency on-call service for the Trust
To participate in departmental clinical meetings.
To undertake any other relevant duties, as may be required by the Chief Pharmacist
To be responsible for technical, operational and systems management of the instances of the pharmacy module of the Emishealth computer system, including, file maintenance, drug templates, financial reporting, general housekeeping, solving day to day problems, dealing with system crashes and providing technical support when required.
To liaise with the eMeds pharmacist, Emishealth and IT helpdesks as necessary to solve complex IT problems.
To ensure the accurate entry of all new drug requests onto the Emishealth pharmacy system and ensure drug files are updated and maintained as necessary.
To ensure all cost centres are updated as necessary, via the IT helpdesk & the eMeds configuration lead.
To be responsible for ensuring all pharmacy staff are trained to appropriate standards in the use of the eMeds system.
To provide timely information on the supply and cost of medicines to the finance department, chief pharmacist and clinicians as requested.
To be the Medicines Safety Officer for the Trust.
To take responsibility for medication safety issues for Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust as determined by the Trusts Medicines Management committee.
To be a member of the Trust Safe Use of Medicines Group (SUMG).
To ensure that relevant pharmaceutical incidents are reported in line with trust policy and remedial actions to reduce risk of recurrence are communicated and implemented.
To ensure prescribing, administration and dispensing errors are reported via Datix to the NRLS.
To manage the implementation of all medicine’s safety initiatives & safety alerts including those from local (SUMG), regional (ICB) & national organisations (such as NHS England, MHRA and DoH) across the Trust.
To arrange relevant departmental meetings that will enable staff to be brought up-to-date on current issues and to address staff development needs regarding medication safety.
