Job summary
We
are looking to recruit a highly motivated and enthusiastic Medicines Manager at
Ambleside, for 20 hours per week.
Please familiarise yourself with the job
description before applying.
Closing Date: Wednesday 6th
December at 23:59
Interview Date: TBC
Main duties of the job
The post holder
will be responsible for managing the processing, issuing, optimising, and safe
use of medications within the practice.
About us
Cumbria Health on Call - CHoC places the patient, their family and their community at the heart of everything we do. We are an award-winning organisation, the first out-of-hours organisation in the country to be rated as outstanding by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We provide primary health care services, both in and out of hours, across Cumbria. We are values-driven and place great emphasis on inclusivity and the wellbeing and development of our staff, while striving to provide a consistently high-quality service. Our service is designed to improve health and wellbeing.
Working for CHoC can offer flexible opportunities in terms of location, hours and working patterns so you can enjoy a great work life balance. In order to provide the best patient care we understand the importance of ensuring staff satisfaction and are consistently trying to ensure we offer our staff a positive working environment whether that be though training or social events.
Listen to your heart. Have the work life balance you'd love.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This list of duties and responsibilities, which follows, represents the broad range of tasks which may be required to be undertaken either routinely or periodically. This list is not exhaustive and the role may include additional duties which are not listed here:-
- Requesting medication for patients
- Liaising with local pharmacies to ensure that prescription requests get actioned, to manage supply and issuing problems, and to work closely where there are concerns with usage of patients.
- To manage the safety alerts into the practice, ensuring that these are actioned with GPs for the safety of patients.
- Managing medication optimisation, working closing with the clinical lead and all prescribers, to be defaulting to cost-effective alternatives to save the NHS money
- Monitoring usage of certain prescriptions and working with clinicians to improve efficacy and safety (e.g. opiate prescribing)
- Receiving and actioning hospital discharges, so that patients have an accurate record of the prescriptions that they are on and are swifty able to access prescribed medication.
- Running searches, contacting patients, and arranging suitable follow-up appointments as appropriate.
- Other reasonable administration and medicines management tasks not covered above
Job description
Job responsibilities
This list of duties and responsibilities, which follows, represents the broad range of tasks which may be required to be undertaken either routinely or periodically. This list is not exhaustive and the role may include additional duties which are not listed here:-
- Requesting medication for patients
- Liaising with local pharmacies to ensure that prescription requests get actioned, to manage supply and issuing problems, and to work closely where there are concerns with usage of patients.
- To manage the safety alerts into the practice, ensuring that these are actioned with GPs for the safety of patients.
- Managing medication optimisation, working closing with the clinical lead and all prescribers, to be defaulting to cost-effective alternatives to save the NHS money
- Monitoring usage of certain prescriptions and working with clinicians to improve efficacy and safety (e.g. opiate prescribing)
- Receiving and actioning hospital discharges, so that patients have an accurate record of the prescriptions that they are on and are swifty able to access prescribed medication.
- Running searches, contacting patients, and arranging suitable follow-up appointments as appropriate.
- Other reasonable administration and medicines management tasks not covered above
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- GCSE grade A to C in English and Maths (or equivalent)
Desirable
- ECDL or equivalent
- NVQ Business Administration
Knowledge
Essential
- Intermediate computer skills
Desirable
- Previous experience working within the NHS
- Previous experience in a similar role
Skills and Aptitudes
Essential
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Excellent telephone manner
- Ability to prioritise & manage own workload
- Friendly, helpful and can do approach
- Ability to carry out work accurately to specified deadlines
- Close attention to detail
- Excellent organisational skills
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Able to work under pressure
- Able to maintain a high level of confidentiality
Other Requirements
Essential
- Willingness to undertake further training
Personal Circumstances
Essential
- Positive
- Confident
- Well organised
- Good team player
- Flexible
- Ability to build rapport and effective relationships at all levels
- Demonstrate initiative
- Ability to maintain workload in a sometimes busy and demanding environment
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- GCSE grade A to C in English and Maths (or equivalent)
Desirable
- ECDL or equivalent
- NVQ Business Administration
Knowledge
Essential
- Intermediate computer skills
Desirable
- Previous experience working within the NHS
- Previous experience in a similar role
Skills and Aptitudes
Essential
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Excellent telephone manner
- Ability to prioritise & manage own workload
- Friendly, helpful and can do approach
- Ability to carry out work accurately to specified deadlines
- Close attention to detail
- Excellent organisational skills
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Able to work under pressure
- Able to maintain a high level of confidentiality
Other Requirements
Essential
- Willingness to undertake further training
Personal Circumstances
Essential
- Positive
- Confident
- Well organised
- Good team player
- Flexible
- Ability to build rapport and effective relationships at all levels
- Demonstrate initiative
- Ability to maintain workload in a sometimes busy and demanding environment
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.
