Job responsibilities
Job Title: Onsite
Prescriber
Location: Chemist4U
Head Office (C4U Skelmersdale)
Department: ADHD 360
Reports To: Team
Manager
Salary: £50,000
PAYE
Hours: 40 Hours per week Monday to Friday
9.00 5.00 with flexibility
Job Summary:
The Onsite Prescriber represents
an extension of the ADHD 360 clinical team, based at the partner pharmacy Chemist4U.The role ensures clinical governance, facilitates timely
corrections, resolves prescription queries, and supports patient satisfaction
by ensuring all prescriptions meet legal and clinical requirements in a timely manner.
Role
Purpose:
The role contributes directly to the efficiency of
ADHD 360s service delivery and patient experience. By resolving issues such as
rejected prescriptions, clinical queries, or delivery errors on the day,
the Onsite Prescriber ensures a seamless process from clinician consultation to
the patient receiving their prescription.
Essential
Duties and Responsibilities:
Prescription
Management
Monitor and maintain the "Rejected
Prescriptions" section on the ADHD 360 system, ensuring timely resolution.
Rewrite and correct prescriptions where
appropriate to meet legal and clinical requirements.
Investigate and resolve prescriptions marked as
"not on C4U system" before they reach QA; complete QA if necessary.
Clinical
Query Resolution
Act as a point of contact to liaise with C4U
Clinical Pharmacists for prescription-related clinical queries and confirm
prescriber intentions.
Collaborate with ADHD 360 Prescribers to address
unclear treatment plans or queries regarding scripts.
Patient
and System Support
Review prescriptions
marked for local pharmacies, investigate and process/correct any discrepancies,
such as missing pink slips.
Address patient-specific
queries, including split scripts, delivery address confirmation, and exemption
status.
Investigate system-related
errors (e.g., patient information, phone numbers or addresses).
Urgent
Requests and Safeguarding
Approve urgent
prescription rewrites, such as lost shipments requiring expedited solutions.
Act as a safeguarding
point of contact to manage high-risk concerns reported by patients to C4U.
Coordination
with Teams
Liaise between C4U and
ADHD 360 teams (QA, Secretaries, Prescribers) to ensure prescription accuracy,
resolve issues, and fulfil specific patient requests.
Facilitate communication
and ensure clarity between all involved departments for smooth prescription
processing.
How performance
will be measured
Timely completion of the "Rejected
Prescriptions" tab daily.
All prescription rewrites
actioned and completed within the same day.
Resolution of clinical
queries, not on C4U system prescriptions, and missing pink slips promptly and
efficiently.
Positive contribution to
maximising patient satisfaction and service delivery by providing timely
solutions.
Qualifications
and Experience:
Essential
Current registration with
the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) or relevant healthcare professional
body.
V300 Independent
Prescribing Qualification (or equivalent).
Proven experience in clinical
prescribing, ideally within mental health, ADHD, or related healthcare
settings.
Strong understanding of
clinical governance, legal prescription requirements, and safeguarding
protocols.
Experience working
collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to resolve clinical queries and
deliver patient-focused care.
Proficient in using
clinical systems and digital platforms for patient management.
Desirable
Experience in ADHD, mental
health services, or Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).
Previous experience
liaising with pharmacies or prescription processing teams.
Familiarity with ADHD 360
systems and processes or similar platforms.
Competencies:
Clinical Expertise: Demonstrates a high level of clinical knowledge
and prescribing skills, ensuring compliance with legal and clinical
requirements.
Attention to Detail: Ability to accurately identify and resolve errors
in prescriptions or patient information while ensuring thorough documentation.
Communication Skills: Strong verbal and written communication skills to
liaise effectively between multidisciplinary teams, pharmacists, and
prescribers.
Problem-Solving: Proactively identifies issues (e.g., rejected
prescriptions, system bugs, or delivery errors) and implements timely,
effective solutions.
Patient-Focused: Commitment to improving patient satisfaction by
facilitating smooth and efficient prescription processing.
Team Collaboration: Works effectively across teams, maintaining clear
communication and coordination between ADHD 360 and Chemist4U.
Organisational Skills: Manages workload efficiently, ensuring tasks such
as daily monitoring, re-writes, and query resolution are completed promptly.
Adaptability: Demonstrates flexibility in handling urgent
requests, safeguarding concerns, or system/process changes.
Professionalism: Upholds high standards of care, confidentiality,
and integrity in all patient-related activities.
Safeguarding
Responsibilities:
ADHD360 is committed to
safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and adults.
Safeguarding is everyone's responsibility, and all employees are required to
act in such a way that always safeguards the health and well-being of children,
young people, and adults that you may come into contact with during your work.
To fulfil these duties, you will be required to participate and attend
appropriate mandatory training to recognise the signs and symptoms of abuse and
how to respond to these signs and symptoms. All employees are required to
adhere to local and national safeguarding policies and guidance. All employees
must also ensure that they understand and act by this clause. If you do not
understand exactly how this relates to you personally, then you must ensure
that you seek clarification from your line manager or refer to the company's
Safeguarding policy. Equally, all managers have a responsibility to ensure that
their team understand their responsibilities regarding the safeguarding of
children, young people and adults.
