Band 8a Medicines Safety Officer - Norwich, United Kingdom - Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
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Norwich, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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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 challenging and rewarding opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of our patients.

This post attracts £3K joining in bonus and potential of up to £5K relocation cost(see below for more details).


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

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.
Recruitment Premium and Relocation Cost

This post attracts a recruitment premium of £3,000 (pro-rata for part time roles).

This is a one-off payment with half paid on appointment and half paid after the completion of a satisfactory probation period (6 months).

The premium is taxable.


Please note that should you leave employment or choose to move to an alternative post within the Trust that does not attract this recruitment premium, you will be required to reimburse all or some it, as follows: 100% of the value of the premium in the first 12 months; 50% of the value of the premium in the period 12 months to 2 years following appointment.

Please note this recruitment premium is for external applicants only.

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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