Dispenser

Job summary

Long Stratton Medical Partnership are looking to recruit an experienced and highly motivated dispenser to join our team, initially to cover maternity leave, with a view to continued permanent employment - 30 hours per week, working over 5 days.

The purpose of the role is to process all relevant prescriptions as authorised by GPs and prescribing nurses where appropriate in accordance with the principles of good practice and to provide an efficient and accurate dispensing service with minimum supervision and to ensure a high quality safe service to patients. Further details are provided in the attached job description.

Main duties of the job

• Process patient acute and repeat medication requests.
• Ensure the correct labelling of drugs and medicines.
• Dispense checked drugs & medications to patients.
• Ensure that all medicines and appliances dispensed are checked against the prescription and whenever there is doubt about the appropriateness of the item, or about the dose or labelling instructions to check with the authorising doctor or duty doctor.
• Collect all due prescription charges and ensure that the patient declaration on the reverse of the FP10 is duly filled in and signed by the patient.
• Ensure that all monies received or handled on behalf of the practice are appropriately through dispensary till.
• Endorse all prescription forms as appropriate, collate and forward the forms in a secure manner to the PPA for processing and reimbursement. The forms should be bundled in accordance with current PPA guidelines and include any necessary accompanying paperwork such as the FP34D and invoices as required by the PPA.
• Promptly forward all invoices and dispensary related correspondence to the practice manager or dispensary manager according to practice policy.
• Notify the authorising doctor of any FP10 returns/feedback from the PPA so that any appropriate remedial action may be taken.
• Operate efficient stock control appropriate to the needs of the practice with the objective of ensuring continuity of supply for patients and minimising wastage through out of date stock.
• Ensure that drugs are stored in an appropriate manner.

About us

At Long Stratton Medical Partnership, we take pride in being a family focused, close knit team our work family is how we often describe ourselves. We offer a supportive, positive culture which is well-lead, and provide regular supervision and training for all staff.

Long Stratton is a small town in South Norfolk, 10 miles from the historic city of Norwich. We have 11,500 patients on our list, a CQC rating of Good and operate from both our main site and a branch site in Newton Flotman. We are also a dispensing Practice with a dispensing list of around 5,500 patients. We use SystmOne and run cloud-based telephony which links seamlessly with the clinical system and provides excellent functionality.

Our Practice has 5 Partner GPs leading an MDT of 3 permanent salaried GPs, an emergency care practitioner, an advanced nurse practitioner, 2 clinical pharmacists, a pharmacy technician, a team of registered nurses, 3 HCAs & a phlebotomist plus superb teams in reception, administration, and dispensary, along with the surgery management team.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including 5 weeks annual leave (plus bank holidays), the NHS pension scheme, and an Employer Assistance Programme for the employee and family members. We also offer free on-site car parking and access to NHS discounts.

If you are interested in joining us, then we would be very pleased to hear from you and welcome your application. Please contact Keith Burnett if you would like any further information.