Prescriptions Clerk

Job description

Job responsibilities

Duties include, but are not limited to:

Delivering the technical aspects of prescription preparation to ensure the safe prescribing of medicines, ensuring errors are minimised.

Complying with legal and professional requirements, accepted guidance on professional practice, and with safe systems of work for re-authorising repeat prescriptions.

Safe management of repeat prescriptions and co-ordination of medication reviews or changes.

Liaison with pharmacy team and external pharmacies on the supply of prescribed drugs, alerting our clinicians of any supply issues and forwarding information on the recommended alternatives.

Expediting urgent prescriptions to help ensure a safe and responsive service for our patients.

Responding to enquiries from patients, carers, practice staff, NHS administrators, consultants or the pharmacy team in a courteous, timely and efficient manner, by telephone, letter and email and occasionally face-to-face. Maintaining precise records of the communications.

Posting and emailing written correspondence as appropriate to deliver the requested correspondence in a timely manner and ensuring this is recorded in the patient record.

Maintaining accurate patient records promptly and quickly - entering data in accordance with reporting requirements.

Keeping up to date with the Practices formulary and the national restricted drugs list.

Bringing any queries to the attention of the relevant GP, to include under and over usage.

On the GPs instructions, inactivate drugs that have never been issued or have not been issued for a specified period of time.

Building good working relationships with local Pharmacies and ensuring close liaison to resolve queries.

Creating tasks and assisting Clinicians in managing document workflow relating to prescriptions.

Establishing and maintaining filing and administrative systems so that written or computerised information is easily accessible and secure.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• GCSC pass in English and Maths
• NVQ Level 2 Certificate in Pharmacy Skills (or equivalent)

Experience

Essential

• Experience as Pharmacy Technician or Dispensing Assistant or similar in a healthcare environment or pharmacy.

Desirable

• Experience as Prescriptions Clerk or similar in Primary Care setting.

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

Emsworth Medical Practice

Address

Emsworth Medical Practice

North Street

Emsworth

Hampshire

PO10 7DD

Employer's website

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