Prescription Clerk/Pharmacy Assistant

Job summary

Newport Pagnell Medical Centre has an opportunity for a prescription clerk/pharmacy assistant to join our busy prescribing team, at the heart of our patient care service. This role is offered on a part-time basis, for 22 hours per week working across 4 days.

Main duties of the job

• Understand the electronic prescribing system within the practice.
• Process repeat prescriptions on a daily basis, ensuring compliance with the practice protocol.
• Handling weekly prescriptions for vulnerable patients and dealing with the queries related to these.
• Ensure all prescriptions are signed by a GP, ready for collection within 48 hours from time of request and ready for daily collection by the local pharmacies.
• Perform regular searches on drugs requiring monitoring, hence minimising the risk of adverse effects. Ensure all current medication has relevant, current authorisations.
• Promote cost-effective prescribing at the practice through switching drugs to the generic preparation when appropriate and encouraging the use of local primary care trust formulary medication choices.
• Deal with prescription queries from a range of healthcare professionals including; GPs, nurse prescribers, hospital outpatients/consultants, community pharmacists, community nursing staff, community matrons, carers, sheltered housing wardens, care homes as well as reception/administration staff at the practice.
• Deal with medication changes from all hospital letters, removing old medication adding new or making dose changes with GPs agreement and oversight documented in patient notes. Informing patients of changes where necessary and any review monitoring requirements.

About us

Based in excellent premises, we offer a wide range of services. You would be working alongside a forward thinking and supportive practice-employed integrated nursing team and dedicated administration team.

• List size 30,000+
• 6 GP Partners, 10Salaried GPs, 2 GP Trainees
• 2 GP Trainer/Practice Educators
• Support for both Student Nurses and Medical Students
• Urgent Care Team that manages On The Day demand in the Practice
• Support of GP Personal Assistants
• SystmOne Practice
• Visiting consultants in urology, colorectal and general medicine
• High QoF achievement
• Active in the local LMC
• Three sites forming one PCN