JOB ROLE:
The role of Senior Quality Practitioner – Medication Lead is a newly developed role which will significantly contribute to quality assurance across the organisation. You will be based within the Quality team and will contribute to our audit and social care governance processes. The role will concentrate on medication governance and improvement processes across our national services, particularly those services who are registered with CQC. Creative Support currently has over 650 services, including Learning Disability, Mental Health, Care Homes, etc. The role will be well supported within the highly experienced and established quality team who have been together in its current work for over 10 years.
The role includes carrying out quality audits and inspections and contributing to quality improvement and turnaround programmes. The post holder will also be part of a team which responds to specific work requests which may include assisting services with quality improvement work. You will lead in quality improvement and your practitioner background will be a highly valuable asset.
Key areas of the role:
- Have a lead role in medication good practice including ensuring policies and toolkits enable excellent medication management and to audit sites to ensure compliance against policy and protocols.
- Form part of the quality team to ensure that, Creative Support meets and exceeds the CQC standards particularly in the area of “Safe” across our services nationally.
- To directly support staffing teams with improvement of medication practices.
- Support with the implementation and review of medication assessments and support plans.
- Carry out staff medication observations of practice.
- To Review and develop of policies and training packages relating to medication compliance and safe administration of medication.
- Provide coaching and guidance to staffing teams who require additional support within all areas of Medication.
- To have a particular focus on Care homes good practice
- Promoting Health and wellbeing good practice.
- To champion campaigns on good practice including STOMP (Stopping over medication)
Additional Duties:
- To accept regular support and supervision from your line manager.
- Provide regular verbal and written reports of work undertaken.
- To attend and actively contribute to Quality team meetings. To report to the Social Care Governance structures when required.
- To work as a member of a team and take responsibility for overall quality work plan to ensure the needs of the team are met.
- Work flexibly including nationwide travel, working outside of core hours and overnight stays.
- Carry out all work in a manner consistent with the person centred philosophy and service principles of Creative Support.
- To comply with and to promote the Equal Opportunities and Diversity Policies of Creative Support.
- Maintain confidentiality at all times, in accordance with agency policy.
- To ensure that own training needs in discussion with line manager and to attend training events and courses as required.
- To take a role as part of a rota on the duty manager Out of Hours team at head office. Full training provided and the role will not commence until after induction.
Working alongside senior practitioners, managers and external specialist professionals, the role includes ensuring that care and support is well planned, delivered to high standards and evidenced well.
The post holder will be required to contribute to Social Care Governance processes through attendance at meeting, preparing and presenting reports and reviewing information received at Head Office (such as safeguarding, incidents etc.) and to attend the Quality subcommittee of the Board, as required.
This role is diverse and rewarding where full training and support will be provided.
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