Bosvena Health

Dispensary Supervisor

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Job summary

This key staff member will assist the Dispensary Manager in all areas to ensure the provision of quick, efficient and accurate dispensing of medication to the patients of Bosvena Health, helping to review discounts and pricing to support effective financial returns for the dispensary.

Main duties of the job

Key tasks:

Attendance at, and input to, Dispensary staff meetings, deputising for the Manager if required.

Work with the Dispensary Manager to carry out monthly checking of the drug tariff for price and category changes, checking MIMS for new or discontinued drugs, and following up changes with drug company as required, consulting with the Dispensary Manager

Liaise with the Primary Care Network Pharmacy team, and work with the Lead Pharmacist to ensure compliance with various areas: discharge medication for patients, drug switches or changes, and safety or medication recalls as required.

Support the Dispensary manager in the completion of rotas and holiday allocation and recording if required.

Sorting prescriptions, checking endorsements, preparing forms, and submitting prescriptions monthly to the NHS Prescription Services; preparing vaccine list; dealing with prescriptions returned by the NHS Prescription Services if required.

Oversee and provide management support to the Wholesaling business within Bosvena Health, working with our wholesale partners to maximise income and turnover, remaining compliant with the requirements of the MHRA.

Support the Responsible Person for wholesaling, and work with them to ensure SOPs and paperwork is correctly and adequately maintained.

About us

Bosvena Health is a GP Practice based in mid-Cornwall, we are a semi-rural practice and dispense to patient that live more than 3 miles from the practice.

We have a team of dispensary staff and work to Standard Operating Procedures for Dispensing Practices.

We have a large multi-disciplinary team, and will join a friendly workforce caring for our 23,800 patients.

Details

Date posted

16 August 2023

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£11.76 an hour Starting Salary

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

A1380-23-0005

Job locations

Bosvena Health

Bell Lane

Bodmin

Cornwall

PL31 2JJ


Bosvena Health

Polyphant House

Polyphant

Cornwall

PL15 7PU


Job description

Job responsibilities

Job responsibilities:

Purchasing and stock control

Oversee the daily ordering of stock.

Ensuring goods are correctly delivered, unpacked, and added to stock within a timely manner.

Checking dispensary invoices against delivery notes and recording items for bonusing

Checking credit notes against returns and chasing outstanding credits

Maintain adequate stocks at main and branch surgeries, ensuring timely stock rotation.

Assist with the annual stock takes in dispensary, treatment room, CD cupboard and consulting rooms including the branch surgery.

Ensure the maintenance of out-of-date stock and box and price this stock.

Prescriptions and prescription moneys

Daily or delegated task: check prescriptions for signature/endorsements and sort into paid/unpaid by doctor

Weekly: submitting all unsigned prescriptions to the partners; generating nurses prescriptions for Personally Administered items as required; oversee the sorting post-dated prescriptions

Daily or delegated task: cashing up prescription moneys, balancing and recording if required.

Destruction of drugs

Daily or delegated task: dealing with returned medication from patients.

Monthly: dealing with uncollected medication

Quarterly: dealing with returned controlled drugs from patients for destruction

Six monthly: work with the Dispensary Manager to deal with out-of-date controlled drugs with the appropriate officer from the PCN Pharmacy team for destruction.

Dispensing

Overseeing/checking colleagues dispensing

Taking prescription repeats via the telephone, over the counter.

Dispensing acute prescriptions for patients

Generating monthly repeat prescriptions for the practice, liaising with the relevant partners over any necessary changes in medication

Collecting prescription charges from patients

Dispensing black-listed medication, pricing, and recording

Dispensing private patients prescriptions, pricing, and entering on account cards, calculating private patients monthly accounts (including consultations) and submitting invoices

Removing out of date repeats from patients computerised repeat prescription lists

Re-batching drugs for repeat prescriptions

Preparing Nomad packs / MDS packs as required (including checking)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job responsibilities:

Purchasing and stock control

Oversee the daily ordering of stock.

Ensuring goods are correctly delivered, unpacked, and added to stock within a timely manner.

Checking dispensary invoices against delivery notes and recording items for bonusing

Checking credit notes against returns and chasing outstanding credits

Maintain adequate stocks at main and branch surgeries, ensuring timely stock rotation.

Assist with the annual stock takes in dispensary, treatment room, CD cupboard and consulting rooms including the branch surgery.

Ensure the maintenance of out-of-date stock and box and price this stock.

Prescriptions and prescription moneys

Daily or delegated task: check prescriptions for signature/endorsements and sort into paid/unpaid by doctor

Weekly: submitting all unsigned prescriptions to the partners; generating nurses prescriptions for Personally Administered items as required; oversee the sorting post-dated prescriptions

Daily or delegated task: cashing up prescription moneys, balancing and recording if required.

Destruction of drugs

Daily or delegated task: dealing with returned medication from patients.

Monthly: dealing with uncollected medication

Quarterly: dealing with returned controlled drugs from patients for destruction

Six monthly: work with the Dispensary Manager to deal with out-of-date controlled drugs with the appropriate officer from the PCN Pharmacy team for destruction.

Dispensing

Overseeing/checking colleagues dispensing

Taking prescription repeats via the telephone, over the counter.

Dispensing acute prescriptions for patients

Generating monthly repeat prescriptions for the practice, liaising with the relevant partners over any necessary changes in medication

Collecting prescription charges from patients

Dispensing black-listed medication, pricing, and recording

Dispensing private patients prescriptions, pricing, and entering on account cards, calculating private patients monthly accounts (including consultations) and submitting invoices

Removing out of date repeats from patients computerised repeat prescription lists

Re-batching drugs for repeat prescriptions

Preparing Nomad packs / MDS packs as required (including checking)

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working in a community pharmacy, or hospital of GP Dispensing practice setting.
  • Experience of managing or supervising teams.

Desirable

  • Experience of working in primary care
  • Experience of working in a GP practice

Qualifications

Essential

  • GCSE grade A to C in English and Maths
  • Minimum of NVQ Dispensing Qualification

Desirable

  • Additional Dispensary or pharmacy related qualifications
Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working in a community pharmacy, or hospital of GP Dispensing practice setting.
  • Experience of managing or supervising teams.

Desirable

  • Experience of working in primary care
  • Experience of working in a GP practice

Qualifications

Essential

  • GCSE grade A to C in English and Maths
  • Minimum of NVQ Dispensing Qualification

Desirable

  • Additional Dispensary or pharmacy related qualifications

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

Bosvena Health

Address

Bosvena Health

Bell Lane

Bodmin

Cornwall

PL31 2JJ


Employer's website

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

Employer details

Employer name

Bosvena Health

Address

Bosvena Health

Bell Lane

Bodmin

Cornwall

PL31 2JJ


Employer's website

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

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Dispensary Manager

Rebecca Robilliard

rebecca.robilliard@nhs.net

0120872488

Details

Date posted

16 August 2023

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£11.76 an hour Starting Salary

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

A1380-23-0005

Job locations

Bosvena Health

Bell Lane

Bodmin

Cornwall

PL31 2JJ


Bosvena Health

Polyphant House

Polyphant

Cornwall

PL15 7PU


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