# Medicines Safety Officer

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** Norwich
- **Region:** East of England
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Administrative and IT
- **Grade:** Band 8
- **Salary:** £57,528 - £64,750 gross per annum (pro rata)
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-02T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-17T10:43:05.797Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Norfolk/Norwich/Norfolk_Suffolk_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Pharmacy/Pharmacy-v8119738
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8119738?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.nsft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Are you a highly motivated and experienced pharmacist with a passion for medication safety? Looking for an opportunity to influence patient safety across the system? Do you have the skills to assess and manage risk, initiate, and manage change, and provide assurance around the safe use of medicines? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!

We are looking for a Medication Safety Officer (MSO) to join our team. This is a rewarding opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of our patients.

NSFT Pharmacy covers Norfolk and Suffolk and the successful candidate can be based in either of these counties. We support flexible working.

### Main duties of the job

As an MSO, you will:

- Offer a leadership role to the medication safety agenda across the organisation
- Act as an expert specialist medicine safety pharmacist
- Encourage medicines incident reporting and learning
- Manage medicine incident reporting including dissemination of lessons learnt from incident investigations
- Identify medicine safety issues from national guidance and embed into clinical practice
- Act as the organisational link with the MHRA and NHSE to receive essential communications and escalate concerns related to the safe use of medicines,
- Implement local actions to improve medicine safety which align with national safety initiatives, including national patient safety alerts
- Be an active member of the Medicines Optimisation Committee and Trust wide committees to represent safe use of Medicines
- Be an active member of the national medicine safety officer network and any local/regional medicine safety groups

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs

## Person Specification

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Knowledge of clinical governance, clinical audit and risk management

### Experience

**Essential**

- Significant mental health experience

**Desirable**

- Experience of digital risk management systems.

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- GPhC registration as a pharmacist

**Desirable**

- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

## Documents

- [reasonable adjustments - nsft (pdf, 197.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2863)
- [band 8a medicines safety officer (pdf, 400.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10415790)
- [values based recruitment – candidates guide (pdf, 360.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1028)

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