Job summary
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

• 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 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!

Qualifications

• GPhC registration as a pharmacist (Essential)
• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (Desirable)

Experience

• Significant mental health experience (Essential)
• Experience of digital risk management systems (Desirable)

Knowledge

• Knowledge of clinical governance, clinical audit and risk management (Essential)

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.

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

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

For questions about the job, contact:
Head of Pharmacy - Operations, Matt Reeve, matt.reeve@nsft.nhs.uk, 01603421212