Prescription Admin and Clinical Coder

Job summary

Ongar Health Centre are looking to welcome an administrator for their prescriptions and clinical coding team on a part-time basis for 32.5 hours per week, working the following;

Monday 9am - 5pm

Tuesday 12pm - 5pm

Wednesday 9am - 5pm

Thursday 12pm - 5pm

Friday 9am - 5pm

Main duties of the job

• Processing repeat prescriptions on a daily basis.
• Dealing with prescription queries from a range of healthcare professionals including; GPs, nurses, community pharmacists, nursing home staff as well as reception/administration staff at the practice.
• Adding new patient medication.
• Communicating with new doctors in medication review protocols and practice formulary choices.
• Ensuring that all prescription queries are passed to the appropriate person as soon as possible for the relevant action.
• Summarising and reading code relevant information from patients clinical records into the practice computer system, working strictly in accordance with the practice notes summarising protocol.
• Processing and managing all incoming correspondence including letters and electronic documents.
• Sorting the letters in preparation for scanning and workflow.
• Ensuring all current medication have relevant, current authorisations.
• Ensuring incoming correspondence about patients from hospitals is scanned, coded and attached to the correct medical record.

Please note that should this vacancy attract sufficient interest it may be necessary to close the vacancy at an earlier date. We therefore suggest that you apply at an early stage to avoid disappointment.

About us

We are a large, busy training practice, serving a patient population of 12,500 and operating from purpose built premises.We use Systmone clinical system and are rated Good with CQC.