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Location
Salary
£53,755 - £60,504 per annum
Profession
Administrative and IT
Grade
Band 8
Deadline
22 Apr 2025
Contract Type
Permanent
Posted Date
08 Apr 2025

Job overview

Medication Safety Officer

Department: Pharmacy

Band 8a  - £53,755 - £60,504 per annum

Hours: 37.5 per week, all MKUH roles will be considered for flexible working

Are you a Pharmacist passionate about helping people get the best from their medicines? Do you love helping people to self-care and look after themselves? Do you have the experience of running high quality, patient focused pharmacy services? If so, we need you!

Milton Keynes University Hospital Pharmacy has had significant investment over the last year in a fully refurbished Pharmacy department and a state of the art Aseptic Unit. In addition we have added a new outpatient dispensary right in the heart of our main entrance and OPD.

We have recently undertaken a change in the manner in which safety incidence are managed, using the PSIRF model. This focuses on learning from errors and we are looking for a clinical pharmacist with experience at band 7 or 8a level in hospital pharmacy or medication safety experience to join the Medicines Use Team.

Interview date: w/c 05.05.2025

Main duties of the job

You will bring a passion for health and wellbeing with a desire to support both patients and staff of the hospital to manage their health and improve from incidence. You will have an eye for service development, system wide learning and governance processes. You will need strong clinical skills and a good knowledge of hospital pharmacy practice to be able to liaise with prescribers and nurses to optimise the use of medicines and reduce the risk of medication safety incidence to ensure the best possible patient outcomes.

In return, you will be supported by the wider Pharmacy team and you will have the opportunity to develop your own skills and undertake your own professional development.

This is an opportunity to set up a service from scratch to offer the highest quality of care.

If you would like to discuss the role further, please do get in touch.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • To act as the Medication Safety Officer (MSO) and be responsible for the development, implementation, and evaluation of medicines safety initiatives across the organisation in line with relevant guidance.
  • To be responsible for the development, implementation, and evaluation of a programme to promote learning from medication incidents within pharmacy and across the organisation.
  • Ensuring comprehensive reporting on medication incidents to the relevant committee  meetings and be responsible for driving actions to improve patient safety across the organisation.
  • To lead on the governance of Controlled Drugs working with the Clinical Director of Pharmacy and the Controlled Drug Accountable Officer.
  • To support the Medicine Use and Quality Manager to develop, deliver and evaluate the service they are responsible for in accordance with relevant standards and guidance.
  • To facilitate the continuing professional development of all direct reports. To support the Medicine Use and Quality Manager to develop and deliver the medicines governance agenda including the preparation and maintenance of pharmacy-wide policies and procedures relating to the safe, effective, and affordable use of medicines.
  • To support patient centred medicines optimisation as an advanced pharmacy practitioner; and where service need require, to practice as a non-medical prescriber within an agreed scope of practic
  • Please refer to the Job Description for further details.

We believe success lies in the diversity of our employees and are committed to promoting equality, encouraging diversity and embracing inclusion. We welcome applications from everyone interested in working for us.

MKUH is committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and as such we offer a range of flexible working practices.

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.

MKUH uses identification scanning technology to confirm the authenticity of documents; all prospective employees of MKUH will have their original documents verified using this technology.

By applying for this role, you accept if successful, that information from your application will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) system.  Your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS.   This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which aims at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers.

Upon commencing  employment  with  the  Trust,  all  employees  (except Medical & Dental Staff on national terms and conditions) are  subject  to  a probationary period lasting  a  period  of  six  months  with  an  option  to extend  for  a  further  six  months  to  a total of  12 months.