Medicines Safety Officer

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

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Job summary

Band 8A Medicines Safety Officer **PLEASE NOTE JOB DESCRIPTION IS SUBJECT TO JOB EVALUATION**

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).

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.

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.

Relocation cost of up to £5000 is available for an exceptional candidate.

Date posted

05 February 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£50,952 to £57,349 a year gross per annum (pro rata)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Job share

Reference number

246-COR5966337-A

Job locations

Hellesdon Hospital

Drayton High Road

Norwich

NR6 5BE


Job description

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!

Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs

Job description

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!

Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • MPharm or equivalent
  • GPhC registration as a pharmacist
  • Postgraduate diploma qualification

Desirable

  • Leadership or Management Qualification
  • Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Experience

Essential

  • Significant hospital experience
  • Significant mental health experience

Desirable

  • Experience of digital risk management systems.

Skills

Essential

  • Reasonable confidence and competence in using IT systems (e.g., MS Outlook, Teams, Word, clinical or other IT systems relevant to the role.

Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge of clinical governance, clinical audit and risk management
  • Knowledge of mental health service, primary and secondary care
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • MPharm or equivalent
  • GPhC registration as a pharmacist
  • Postgraduate diploma qualification

Desirable

  • Leadership or Management Qualification
  • Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Experience

Essential

  • Significant hospital experience
  • Significant mental health experience

Desirable

  • Experience of digital risk management systems.

Skills

Essential

  • Reasonable confidence and competence in using IT systems (e.g., MS Outlook, Teams, Word, clinical or other IT systems relevant to the role.

Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge of clinical governance, clinical audit and risk management
  • Knowledge of mental health service, primary and secondary care

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).

Additional information

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


Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

Hellesdon Hospital

Drayton High Road

Norwich

NR6 5BE


Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact:

Consultant Pharmacist

Dr Asta Prajapati

asta.prajapti@nsft.nhs.uk

07584262980

Date posted

05 February 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£50,952 to £57,349 a year gross per annum (pro rata)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Job share

Reference number

246-COR5966337-A

Job locations

Hellesdon Hospital

Drayton High Road

Norwich

NR6 5BE


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