Medication Safety Officer

ChristianaCare; Newark (DE); On-site; USD 112,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Day-one medical, dental, and vision

403(b) retirement plans

Work/life support

Generous paid time off

Job summary

ChristianaCare is seeking a Medication Safety Officer to lead enterprise-wide efforts to promote safe and effective medication use across our health system. You will collaborate with pharmacy, clinical and quality leaders to identify risks, translate data into action, and drive system-level improvements.

You will influence strategy, guide program development, and implement innovative medication-management technologies while aligning with regulatory requirements and patient safety goals.

Qualifications

• Pharm.D. degree required; PGY1 residency or equivalent health-system experience.
• Minimum five years of health-system pharmacy experience, incl. 3+ years in medication safety or leadership.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and applying performance-improvement methods.
• PGY2 residency or fellowship in Medication-Use Safety or related preferred.
• Experience with enterprise EHRs and medication-use tech; Epic CDS and automation preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise medication-safety initiatives across acute and ambulatory settings.
• Identify risks, translate data into actionable strategies, and drive system-wide improvements.
• Collaborate with pharmacists, clinicians, quality, operations, and executives.
• Guide program development and implement innovative medication-management technologies.

Skills

Medication safety

Quality improvement

Data analysis

Stakeholder collaboration

Leadership

Education

Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.)

ASHP-accredited PGY1 residency or equivalent

PGY2 residency/fellowship in Medication-Use Safety or related

Tools

Epic medication-management

Pharmacy informatics systems

Data visualization tools

Job description

Job Details

ChristianaCare is seeking a Medication Safety Officer (MSO) to serve as an enterprise-wide leader advancing the safe and effective use of medications across our health system.

This is not a traditional pharmacy operations position. It is a highly visible quality and safety role for an accomplished pharmacy professional who wants to influence medication safety on a broader scale, using clinical expertise, data, technology, and collaboration to identify risk and drive meaningful, system-level improvement.

As Medication Safety Officer, you will work across ChristianaCare’s acute and ambulatory settings, partnering with pharmacy, clinical, quality, operational, and executive leaders. You’ll help identify emerging medication-safety risks, establish priorities, translate data into action, and bring multidisciplinary teams together to develop and implement solutions.

You’ll also have the opportunity to be at the forefront of strategic planning, program development and implementation, and the optimization of innovative medication-management and safety technologies as ChristianaCare continues to expand the reach and impact of pharmacy expertise across the organization.

We’re looking for someone who combines strong medication-safety and clinical knowledge with the ability to influence, connect, and lead across disciplines. You know how to take complex medication-safety information and make it meaningful to others. You can build relationships, gain consensus, navigate differing perspectives, and move important work forward, even without direct authority.

Experience leading healthcare quality or safety initiatives, working with regulatory and performance-improvement requirements, and using data to identify opportunities for improvement will position you well for success.

Most importantly, you’ll bring curiosity, sound judgment, and a collaborative approach to creating safer systems for patients.

Education/Experience Requirement

• Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree required. Completion of an ASHP-accredited PGY1 pharmacy residency or equivalent health-system pharmacy experience required.
• Minimum five years of progressive health-system pharmacy experience, including at least three years of medication safety, quality improvement, pharmacy informatics, or related systems-level leadership experience required.
• Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary teams, applying performance-improvement methods, analyzing safety data, and implementing sustainable changes across complex clinical operations required.
• Completion of a PGY2 residency or fellowship in Medication-Use Safety and Policy, Health-System Pharmacy Administration and Leadership, Pharmacy Informatics, or another relevant specialty preferred.
• Experience with enterprise electronic health records and medication-use technologies required; experience with Epic medication-management functionality, clinical decision support, pharmacy automation, and data visualization preferred.

ChristianaCare offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits package, including

• Day-one medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Retirement plans including 403(b) and defined contribution options
• Work/life support, including backup dependent care and wellness programs
• Generous paid time off and lifestyle benefits

About ChristianaCare

Headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, ChristianaCare is one of the country’s most dynamic health care organizations, centered on improving health outcomes, and innovating to make high-quality care more accessible and affordable. ChristianaCare includes an extensive network of primary care and outpatient services, home health care, urgent care centers, three hospitals (1,430 beds), a freestanding emergency department, a Level I trauma center and a Level III neonatal intensive care unit, a comprehensive stroke center and regional centers of excellence in heart and vascular care, cancer care and women’s health. It also includes the pioneering Gene Editing Institute. ChristianaCare is nationally recognized as a great place to work. ChristianaCare is rated by Newsweek as one of the World’s Best Hospitals and is continually ranked among the best in the U.S. in national quality and safety ratings. ChristianaCare is a nonprofit teaching health system with more than 300 residents and fellows. With its groundbreaking Center for Virtual Health and a focus on population health and value-based care, ChristianaCare is shaping the future of health care.

Annual Compensation Range $112,382.40 - $179,816.00. This pay rate/range represents ChristianaCare’s good faith and reasonable estimate of compensation at the time of posting. The actual salary within this range offered to a successful candidate will depend on individual factors including without limitation skills, relevant experience, and qualifications as they relate to specific job requirements.

Post End Date

Oct 15, 2026

EEO Posting Statement

Christiana Care Health System is an equal opportunity employer, firmly committed to prohibiting discrimination, whose staff is reflective of its community, and considers qualified applicants for open positions without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity or expression, age, veteran status, disability, pregnancy, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.

ChristianaCare offers a competitive suite of employee benefits to maximize the wellness of you and your family, including health insurance, paid time off, retirement, an employee assistance program. To learn more about our benefits for eligible positions visit https://careers.christianacare.org/benefits-compensation/.