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Medicines Safety Officer
2 weeks ago
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.
Nearly 3,800 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 1,400+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, catering, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.
We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we’d love you to join us
JOB DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION
YOUR APPLICATION
**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.
**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
**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.
**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.
**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:
- GPhC registration as a pharmacist
**Desirable criteria**:
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
**Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:
- Significant mental health experience
**Desirable criteria**:
- Experience of digital risk management systems.
**Knowledge**:
**Essential criteria**:
- Knowledge of clinical governance, clinical audit and risk management
- EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES _Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief._
- As a part of the Disability Confident Employer Guaranteed Interview Scheme we interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job vacancy (outlined in the Person Specification).. We encourage you
