Full Time Hours, Permanent Contract.
Principal Professional and Clinical Duties & Responsibilities:
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Be the Pharmacy Lead for Medication Safety Officer.
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Implement 5 year Medication Safety Strategic Plan and develop future plans.
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Draw up annual Medication Safety Reports and annual Drugs and Therapeutics Reports.
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Collaborate on an ongoing basis with other key stakeholders.
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Maintain and further build culture of medication safety incident reporting.
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Manage medication safety incident reporting including development and implementation of quality improvement plans arising from incident reports.
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Lead on programme of Medication Safety Quality Improvement Plans.
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Engage with and support regulatory compliance.
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Delivery of medication safety related education.
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Manage communications relating to medication safety including bulletins, alerts, etc.
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Development and maintenance of guidelines, posters, policies relating to medication safety.
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Prescription chart design/revision.
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Maintenance and development of KPIs.
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Manage Pharmacy staff in relation to medication safety and other aspects of Pharmacy as required.
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Be available to rotate into all other duties of the Pharmacy Department as department needs require.
- Maintain competency in other pharmacy areas which must include Dispensary.
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Participate in weekend pharmacy rosters.
Eligibility Criteria - Qualifications and Experience. Candidates must:
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Be a registered Pharmacist with the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (PSI) or be entitled to be so registered.
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Have at least five years satisfactory post registration hospital experience.
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Possess a high standard of administrative, managerial, or business ability.
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Have experience in Medication Safety (desirable).
Full Job Spec is available on request.
Closing Date 1pm on Wednesday, 26 August 2026.
MUH reserves the right to create a panel for this post from which permanent, fixed term and specified purpose vacancies of a full or part time duration may be filled.
Mercy University Hospital (MUH)
MUH is a growing voluntary hospital in the heart of Cork City. We have over 1,800 staff providing complex diagnostic, medical and surgical care through our inpatient, day patient, outpatient and emergency services.
We are a teaching hospital, a centre of national and international excellence, and are renowned for our research and tertiary services.
Providing 24/7 acute surgical, acute medical and critical care, MUH now has multiple sites across the city and continues to expand. We recently opened our Blarney Rehabilitation Unit, a post-acute care specialist rehabilitation unit with 50 beds in Blarney, County Cork.
We support staff development with approx. 100 promotions annually. We prioritise work life balance with 28% of our team working part time hours. We offer nationally agreed enhanced Salary Scales, Pension Scheme, excellent holidays, canteen, and Study Leave and Assistance.
From Cardiac Care to Intensive Care, our varied specialist services offer real career choice to our team.
And we live by our Core Values of Compassion, Excellence, Justice, Respect and Team Spirit.
