Medicines Safety Officer
| Posting date: | 06 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | £55,690.00 to £62,682.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £55690.00 - £62682.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 March 2026 |
| Location: | Oswestry, SY10 7AG |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9224-26-0101 |
Summary
Work with the Chief Nurse to delivery of the Trusts medicines safety programme and ensure that it develops in line with local, regional and national directives. Work in partnership with other professionals and partners, to reduce the number and severity of medication related adverse events throughout the Trust by identifying and implementing new systems of work. The post holder is the Trust Medication Safety Officer (MSO) and has lead responsibility for monitoring medication errors, investigation of clinical incidents and responding to clinical complaints relating to medicines throughout the Trust. Improve reporting and learning of medication error incidents in the organisation. Lead on the management of medication incident reporting in the organisation. Receive and respond to requests for more information about medication error incident reports from the Patient Safety Domain in NHS England and the MHRA, Lead on the dissemination of medication safety communications from NHS England and the MHRA throughout the organisation and lead / implement the actions required from these communications. At the request of the Chief Pharmacist or Deputy Chief Pharmacist, investigate major/ serious clinical incidents within the Trust relating to the use of medicines and report findings and recommendations for change to manager, Quality and Safety team, Trust executives and senior management teams. Support Unit colleagues in the resolution of complaints and patient / staff /management concerns relating to medication incidents. Be responsible for the management of risk regarding medication safety. Influence the Medicines Safety culture within the Trust and embed medicines safety into relevant organisational policies/procedures. Ensuring best possible processes are adopted for the security and safety of staff and medicines within the Trust. Manage and oversee the development, implementation and audit of Trust wide policies and procedures relating to safe medication practices including: Lead the medicines management audit programme Agree and oversee the medicines management annual audit programme Undertake audits into organisational use of medicines as per the programme. To work with the Chief Pharmacist / Deputy Chief Pharmacist and senior clinicians in ensuring compliance with the relevant standards around medication safety and management, in particular CQC regulation. Co-ordinate the Controlled Drug quarterly return to NHSE on behalf of the Controlled Drug Accountable Officer for Robert Jones Agnes Hunt NHS Foundation Trust and act as their deputy where required. to be an active member of the regional and National Medication Safety Network.