Medicines Safety Officer

Job summary

Are you a highly motivated and experienced pharmacist with a passion for medication safety?

Are you looking for an opportunity to influence patient safety across a large NHS organisation and work at the forefront of medicines governance and quality improvement? Do you have the skills to identify and manage risk, lead change, investigate incidents, and provide assurance around the safe and effective use of medicines?

If so, Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) has an exciting opportunity for you to join our friendly and innovative Pharmacy Team as a Medication Safety Officer (MSO).This is a rewarding role that will enable you to make a real difference to patient care by leading on medication safety, learning from incidents, supporting quality improvement initiatives, and helping to shape safer systems and processes across the Trust.

As our Medication Safety Officer, you will work collaboratively with clinical teams, medicines governance groups, and senior leaders to promote a positive safety culture and ensure compliance with national and local medicines safety requirements.

LocationNSFT Pharmacy services cover both Norfolk and Suffolk. The successful candidate can be based at sites within either county, with opportunities for agile and flexible working.

Main duties of the jobAs 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 pensiona 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 serviceNHS discounts and many more.

Details Date posted
18 August 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

BandBand 8aSalary
57,528 to 64,750 a year

gross per annum (pro rata)

Contract Permanent Working  pattern

Full-time,

Flexible working

Reference number
246-COR
8119738-AJob locations

Hellesdon Hospital Drayton High RoadNorwichNR6 5BE
United Kingdom Job description

Job responsibilities

Why Join Us?

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

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

Why Join Us?

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

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

EssentialGPhC registration as a pharmacistMPharm/equivalent

Postgraduate diploma

Desirable

Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Non-medical prescribing

Membership of CMHPLeadership/management qualification.

Experience

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

Skills

Essential Proven ability to work as part of a…