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 

Working for our organisation

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.