Medicines Safety Officer

• 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

• A dedicated Medication Safety Officer role with opportunity to influence practice across the Trust.
• Work within a supportive and experienced pharmacy team.
• Opportunity to lead medicines safety improvement initiatives and contribute to strategic developments.
• No weekend, bank holiday, or late-duty rota commitments.
• Flexible working arrangements supported.
• Access to ongoing professional development and leadership opportunities

• 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.

Essential

• GPhC registration as a pharmacist
• MPharm/equivalent
• Postgraduate diploma

Desirable

• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Non-medical prescribing
• Membership of CMHP
• Leadership/management qualification.

Essential

• Significant mental health experience
• Supervising, developing and appraising staff
• Significant hospital experience
• Incident investigation and reporting
• Lead/participate in audits
• Awareness of current national standards, guidelines...

Desirable

• Experience of digital risk management systems.
• Experience of managing a team
• Experience of service development

Essential

• Proven ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Ability to interpret and communicate highly complex data
• Ability to manage change and conflict
• Ability to cope with conflicting pressures and deadlines

Essential

• Knowledge of clinical governance, clinical audit and risk management
• Expert knowledge of medicines management and medicines optimisation