Riverport Medical Practice

Prescription Administrator

The closing date is 04 January 2026

Job summary

Riverport Medical Practice is looking to appoint a Prescription Administrator to join our team. Both full-time and part-time applications will be considered for this role.

The ideal candidate will be have experience working in General Practice supporting a prescription team and processing prescription requests. This is the ideal role for a Prescription Clerk or Dispenser.

Main duties of the job

The Prescription Administrator will work alongside our existing prescription team to support the safe issuing of medication across the Practice.

This includes processing prescription requests that patients have submitted both digitally and on paper.

The Prescription Administrator is a key role at the Practice in supporting our team and patients with prescription queries. The ideal candidate will be confident liaising with patients, staff, and other healthcare organisations such as community pharmacies.

The role not only supports the Practice team, but also the aligned residential care homes with their medication ordering.

The Prescription Administrator also supports long-term condition management by inviting patients to monitoring appointments, blood tests, and medication reviews.

About us

Riverport Medical Practice is a GMS practice with 13,500 patients. Currently rated 'Good' by CQC, the Practice has three sites in St Ives, Somersham and Fenstanton.

The Practice uses SystmOne clinical system as well as other digital healthcare solutions such as Abtrace.

Riverport Medical Practice has a team of 50 members of staff including GPs, Pharmacists, Nurses, Physician Associates, and Healthcare Assistants.

Details

Date posted

18 December 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£12.80 an hour Dependant on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Job share

Reference number

A2309-25-0004

Job locations

The Orchard Surgery

Constable Road

St Ives

Cambridgeshire

PE27 3ER


Riverport Medical Practice

Parkhall Road

Somersham

Huntingdon

Cambridgeshire

PE28 3EU


Job description

Job responsibilities

  • Processing repeat prescription requests
  • Supporting the use of electronic repeat dispensing
  • Booking medication reviews
  • Organising long-term condition review appointments
  • Identifying patients who require greater monitoring for their medications (such as high risk drugs, anticoagulants etc)
  • Ensuring blood tests have been attended
  • Submitting information to the clinical system such as INR results from the anticoag team
  • Answering patient or staff queries

Job description

Job responsibilities

  • Processing repeat prescription requests
  • Supporting the use of electronic repeat dispensing
  • Booking medication reviews
  • Organising long-term condition review appointments
  • Identifying patients who require greater monitoring for their medications (such as high risk drugs, anticoagulants etc)
  • Ensuring blood tests have been attended
  • Submitting information to the clinical system such as INR results from the anticoag team
  • Answering patient or staff queries

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Experience working with prescriptions or medication
  • Experience working in General Practice or Community Pharmacy

Desirable

  • Experience using TPP SystmOne clinical system
  • Experience working as a Prescription Administrator or Prescription Clerk
Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Experience working with prescriptions or medication
  • Experience working in General Practice or Community Pharmacy

Desirable

  • Experience using TPP SystmOne clinical system
  • Experience working as a Prescription Administrator or Prescription Clerk

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Riverport Medical Practice

Address

The Orchard Surgery

Constable Road

St Ives

Cambridgeshire

PE27 3ER


Employer's website

https://www.riverportmedicalpractice.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Riverport Medical Practice

Address

The Orchard Surgery

Constable Road

St Ives

Cambridgeshire

PE27 3ER


Employer's website

https://www.riverportmedicalpractice.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Practice Manager

Melissa Rawlings

melissa.rawlings@nhs.net

01480466611

Details

Date posted

18 December 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£12.80 an hour Dependant on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Job share

Reference number

A2309-25-0004

Job locations

The Orchard Surgery

Constable Road

St Ives

Cambridgeshire

PE27 3ER


Riverport Medical Practice

Parkhall Road

Somersham

Huntingdon

Cambridgeshire

PE28 3EU


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