About this role
Job summary
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
About us
Some of the benefits included with this role:
NHS pension a comprehensive in house & external training programmes career progression starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays) staff physio service NHS discounts and many more.
Job description Job 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!
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Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
GPhC registration as a pharmacist MPharm/equivalent Postgraduate diploma
Desirable
Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Non-medical prescribing Membership of CMHP Leadership/management qualification.
Experience Essential
Significant mental health experience Supervising, developing and appraising staff Significant hospital experience Incident investigation and reporting Lead/participate in audits Awareness of current national standards, guidelines...
Desirable
Experience of digital risk management systems. Experience of managing a team Experience of service development
Skills Essential
Proven ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team Ability to interpret and communicate highly complex data Ability to manage change and conflict Ability to cope with conflicting pressures and deadlines
Knowledge Essential
Knowledge of clinical governance, clinical audit and risk management Expert knowledge of medicines management and medicines optimisation
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust
Address Hellesdon Hospital
Drayton High Road
Norwich
NR6 5BE
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)