Job responsibilities
Job Title: Repeat
Prescriber
Location: WFH
Department: ADHD 360
Reports To: Team
Manager / Pharmacy Lead
Salary: £37,000
PAYE
Hours: 24 a week minimum - 40 Hours per week, flexibility of hours available but with a regular
schedule of work hours.
Job Summary:
The Repeat Prescriber represents
an extension of the ADHD 360 clinical team. The role ensures clinical
governance, facilitates repeat prescriptions for patient who are not eligible
for shared care, resolves prescription backlogs, 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. The Repeat Prescriber
ensures a seamless process from clinician consultation to the patient receiving
their prescription once medication has been optimised. This role was developed
to ensure patients can access their treatment, when GPs do not agree to fulfill
shared care within primary care.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Prescription Management
Monitor and maintain the "No Shared Care
Prescriptions" section on the ADHD 360 system, ensuring timely resolution.
Write prescriptions to meet legal and clinical
requirements.
Ensure that prescriptions are written within the
recommended time frame for those patients refused Shared Care.
Patient
and System Support
Review prescriptions marked
as refused shared care
Check that up to date
observations are submitted to the patient portal, knowledge required to review
observations are within normal parameters in both children and adults.
Complete prescriptions
according to patient treatment plan.
Clinical decision making
in relation to treatment or prescribing decisions is not part of this role.
Coordination
with Teams
Liaison may be required
between 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 "Refused
Shared Care Prescriptions" tab daily.
All prescriptions actioned
and completed within the same day.
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) / General Pharmaceutical Society (GPC) 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.
