Prescription Clerk

Job summary

Lea Vale Medical Group has an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and self-motivated person to join our team as a prescription clerk, on a full time basis for 37.5 hours per week, in our busy medical practice located in Luton town centre.

Main duties of the job

• Process repeat prescriptions on a daily basis ensuring compliance with the practice protocol.
• Deal with prescription queries from a range of healthcare professionals including; GPs, nurses, community pharmacists, nursing home staff as well as reception/administration staff at the practice.
• Support the practice pharmacists as required.
• Deal with medication changes from hospital letters, removing old medication, adding new or making dose changes. Sending letter to patient, including confirmation of changes. Add any relevant monitoring diaries.
• Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.
• Add new patient medication, pass to registered GP for approval highlighting any concerns found. Liaise with patient via phone call or letter.
• Ensure medication reviews are arranged with an appropriate clinician.
• Support the prescribing manager with any aspect of practice administration and clerical duties deemed necessary.
• Any other duties as reasonably requested.
• Previous NHS experience, ideally within a GP setting.
• Medical terminology knowledge.
• Knowledge of handling data.

About us

Lea Vale Medical Group is serving just over 45,000 patients and has been rated outstanding by the CQC. We believe in delivering high quality patient care through teamwork. As an employee of Lea Vale Medical Group, you will also enjoy the following benefits:

• Competitive salary.
• NHS Pension.
• Support to guide your personal and professional development.
• Excellent training opportunities.

We are a CQC outstanding rated practice who believes in delivering high quality primary care services through effective teamwork and constant learning. We are looking for people who share the same teamworking ethics to join our team. We learn from the past but are always looking to the future, this is true when we look for new staff as well, your skills and experience will be what make you suitable for this role but we are more interested in your ideas for the future! How you want to develop yourself and how that will improve our practice and the service we offer to our patients.