Prescribing Clerk - Oak Tree Surgery

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key Tasks:

To work with the Cluster Pharmacists and GPs to carry out Medication Reviews

To work with GPs and practice staff to ensure that all repeat prescriptions produced at the practice are ready within 2 working days of request including My Health Online requests

To work with the Prescribing Hub to ensure that all repeat prescriptions requests are issued if appropriate and ready for collection within 3 working days

To deal with patient and staff queries via the phone line or front desk in a timely manner

To carry out any Audit work deemed necessary by the practice around medication or clinic work. To make yourself competent in running drug searches

To keep an audit trail of prescription bags to the doctors ensuring they are returned

All new drugs are added to the patients medical records

Liaise with community pharmacies, hospital and patients ensuring a good working relationship is maintained

Daily collect all TOC reports and make changes to patients medications as necessary

Liaise with Community Drug and Alcohol Team and Alternative Healthcare Primary Care Scheme doctor re issue of medication for patients on those schemes

Ensure any monitoring tests are up to date before issue of prescription

LHB to carry out all LHB requested work

Attend all relevant training offered to support the prescribing role

To provide admin support for visitors/supervisors/managers/ and clinical members of the surgery

To familiarise yourself with the processes of remit of other members of your team to cover for holidays and sickness

As an employee of the Practice, you are legally responsible for all records that you gather, create, or use as part of your work within the Practice (including Patient health, financial, personal and administrative (whether paper based or electronic. All such records considered as public records, other than patients personal notes, and you have a legal duty of confidence to service users, even when you have left the Practice. All employees of the practice are required to maintain the confidentiality of members of the public and members of staff.

The post holder will be subject to an annual appraisal, which will incorporate a review of the above duties and the performance of the post holder.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Good interpersonal skills Ability to work in a challenging environment.
• Good communication skills.
• Attention to detail.

Desirable

• Welsh speaker

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to GCSE level

Desirable

• GCSE Grade A to C in English and Maths ECDL Previous prescribing clerk experience or pharmacy technician experience

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

GP Practice in Wales

Address

Oak Tree Surgery

Whitethorn Drive

Brackla

Bridgend

Mid Glamorgan

CF31 2PQ

Employer's website

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