Job summary
- Main area
- Allied Health Professionals
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed Term)
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 188-CL020625
- Employer
- University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Southampton General Hospital
- Town
- Southampton
- Salary
- £62,215 - £72,293 pa pro rata
- Closing
- 19/06/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 27/06/2025
Employer heading
Deputy Medicines Safety Officer
Band 8b
Job overview
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.
Please see below for a detailed job description of the role.
Main duties of the job
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated pharmacist to join the medication safety team. A 1-year part-time opportunity is available to deputise for the Trust Medicines Safety Officer (MSO) and develop your teaching skills.
This will provide opportunities to direct and implement trust-wide change to improve medicines safety. Working closely with the Consultant Pharmacist for Medicines Safety, you will develop your leadership skills and put them into practice. Chairing the Trust Medicines safety group and attending the Drugs Committee will require an organised and methodical approach.
Working for our organisation
University Hospital Southampton is one of England's largest acute teaching Trusts, offering a wide range of learning and development opportunities to support your career aspirations.
Located on the south coast with an international airport and direct rail links to London, Southampton offers an ideal setting to live and work, with the New Forest, South Downs and Jurassic Coast.
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At UHS we’re committed to providing a flexible working environment where possible. Whether you are balancing family, study, or your wellbeing with your career, we want to support you so you can help our patients.
At UHS, we proudly champion individuality, recognizing that outstanding care is only possible with a diverse, inclusive team. We’re committed to creating an anti-racist, anti-discriminatory environment where everyone feels valued, safe, and empowered to make a meaningful impact in our communities. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences to join us in building a healthcare community where everyone can belong, thrive, and contribute.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As deputy MSO, you will deploy your skills to improve reporting and learning in medicines safety, primarily within prescribing. Providing feedback to prescribers, supporting reflection and identifying strategies and system changes to help improve medication safety.
As chair of the Trust's medicines safety group, you will lead discussions on a range of medicines safety topics, ensuring every voice is heard and a consensus reached. In addition, you will join the regional and national medicines safety networks.
The role will also entail managing and supporting prescribing training for the University of Southampton Medical School. You will need to be highly organised and be able to plan educational sessions well in advance with your colleagues. You will be able to apply learning directly from your knowledge of prescribing errors into the curriculum.
You will need to demonstrate a willingness to learn and be curious about the systems our staff work with. You will need to be comfortable having challenging conversations with a range of staff and patients.
The hours are flexible with a mixture of on-site and working from home opportunities.
Person specification
Qualifications / training required
Essential criteria
- Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent.
- Registration with the GPHC.
- Postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent experiential learning.
- Evidence of a minimum of 2 advanced pharmacy framework competencies at Mastery with remaining competencies at advanced level 2
Desirable criteria
- MSC in clinical pharmacy
- Masters in Research
- RPS Member
- RPS Member
- Foundation management training
- Independent Pharmacist prescribing qualification
- Faculty assessment as fellow or advanced stage 2
- Training in data analytics or management of healthcare data.
Previous or relevant experience necessary
Essential criteria
- Experience of providing highly complex pharmaceutical care
- Sound knowledge of a specialist area alongside other core medical & surgical specialities
- Experience of supervising others, including for research and audit projects
- Experience of practice research or audit
- Experience of managing others
- Experience of protocol/guideline development
- Practical demonstration of time management skills
- Experience of education and training at post graduate level
- Sound understanding of healthcare priorities and political agendas.
- Evidence of working effectively at the primary/secondary care interface.
Desirable criteria
- Previous directorate experience, including financial reporting
- Have experience of teaching, mentoring and or coaching.
- Experience of electronic prescribing
Values and behaviours
Essential criteria
- Patients First
- Always Improving
- Working Together
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Andy Fox
- Job title
- Consultant Pharmacist Medicines Safety
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02381204201
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