Medicines Safety Officer

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

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

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

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • GPhC registration as a pharmacist

Desirable

  • Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Experience

Essential

  • Significant mental health experience

Desirable

  • Experience of digital risk management systems.

Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge of clinical governance, clinical audit and risk management

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).

Closing Date: 2 August 2026

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