Lead Nurse - Medicines Management

☞ Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Update day: 01-06-2024

Location: Scunthorpe Yorkshire and the Humber

Category: Health / Medical Care

Industry: Hospitals Health Care

Position: Mid-Senior level

Job type: Full-time

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An exciting secondment opportunity has arisen for a highly developed experienced clinical nurse to join our small team of Lead Nurses for Medicines Management within the Pharmacy Service.This Trust wide role provides expert support and specialist education and training to clinical colleagues of which will embrace both medicines management and nursing management to improve the care of patients within clinical fields.The post holder will lead clinical audits related to this field of practice and support research projects undertaking audit, review, and appropriate service development practices.The post holder will be proactive in the development of safe and efficient systems of practice for the Trust in relation to medication safety, taking account of Trust strategy and policy, national recommendations, and published research. The post holder will be an easily identifiable and highly visible presence on the wards, who is a resource/link between medical, nursing, pharmacy, and other clinical staff.This post is for cross site working.
  • Provide highly specialised advice concerning the care and treatment of identified groups or categories of patients/clients to the multi-disciplinary team as required by possessing highly developed specialist knowledge, underpinned by theory and nursing experience.
  • Develops and contributes to strategies designed to promote and improve health and prevent disease within the specific field of medicines management.
  • Identify any resources required to meet patient needs or that impact on pharmacy staff or drug costs.
  • Audit and evaluate care in relation to the medicines management and drug treatments.
  • Manage own workload in collaboration with the Chief Pharmacist, Pharmacy staff, Consultant colleagues and nursing staff.
We’re a large organisation with three hospitals located in Scunthorpe, Grimsby and Goole. We also provide community services in North Lincolnshire. Our 6,500 members of staff care for and support a population of more than 400,000 people.We encourage all our staff to innovate and adopt ‘best practice’ so we can deliver excellent care to our patients. We ask staff to live our values; kindness, courage and respect.We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. You could be one of them.To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website at https://joinnlag.co.uk/Should we receive a high volume of applications for this vacancy, the advert may be closed earlier than stated. To view a full job description and person specification please see attachments on this advert.In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Recruitment & Workforce team will use and hold your personal data for the intended purpose and in line with the Recruitment & Workforce Privacy Statement.“We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers”.Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.For further details / informal visits contact: Name: James Hargraves Job title: Assistant Chief Pharmacist Email address: james.hargraves@nhs.net Telephone number: 07843501548Informal discussions and site visits (virtual or in person) can be arranged to discuss the role.In person interviews will be held at DPOW.
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Deadline: 16-07-2024

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