Medicines Safety Officer

Job overview

Are you a highly motivated and experienced pharmacist with a passion for medication safety?

Are you looking for an opportunity to influence patient safety across a large NHS organisation and work at the forefront of medicines governance and quality improvement? Do you have the skills to identify and manage risk, lead change, investigate incidents, and provide assurance around the safe and effective use of medicines?

If so, Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) has an exciting opportunity for you to join our friendly and innovative Pharmacy Team as a Medication Safety Officer (MSO).

This is a rewarding role that will enable you to make a real difference to patient care by leading on medication safety, learning from incidents, supporting quality improvement initiatives, and helping to shape safer systems and processes across the Trust.

As our Medication Safety Officer, you will work collaboratively with clinical teams, medicines governance groups, and senior leaders to promote a positive safety culture and ensure compliance with national and local medicines safety requirements.

Location

NSFT Pharmacy services cover both Norfolk and Suffolk. The successful candidate can be based at sites within either county, with opportunities for agile and 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

Why Join Us?

• A dedicated Medication Safety Officer role with opportunity to influence practice across the Trust.
• Work within a supportive and experienced pharmacy team.
• Opportunity to lead medicines safety improvement initiatives and contribute to strategic developments.
• No weekend, bank holiday, or late-duty rota commitments.
• Flexible working arrangements supported.
• Access to ongoing professional development and leadership opportunities

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

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.