Prescription Clerk

The Prescription clerk provides support to our Clinicians in the receipt and preparation of prescriptions. You will be the main point of contact for enquiries about prescriptions from patients, community pharmacies and care homes. As the main contact for these enquiries, a good telephone manner and excellent communication skills are essential.

To thrive in this role you will need exceptional organisational and prioritising skills, combined with excellent attention to detail. You will need to be confident to problem solve and enjoy working closely as a team to achieve objectives and ensure that your prescription workloads are managed in a timely manner.

Main duties of the job

To issue prescriptions in accordance with Practice Protocol

To re-start medication prescribed in the past inline with the Practice formulary.

To make medication changes from any hospital letters and discharge summaries.

To report overuse of specified drugs to the doctors as per the protocol.

To compile the working days prescriptions and present to Clinicians for signing

To issue emergency prescription requests with reference to the practice guidance.

To maintain a spreadsheet of patients with dosette boxes and other medications

managed by the practice. To ensure that prescriptions for these patients are

prepared in a timely manner.

To monitor reported manufacturing problems with Pharmacy Technician.

To communicate with local pharmacies via telephone and email.

To liaise with patients via telephone email text and dashboard.

To administrate the process for patients with compliance aids.

To action tasks directly from Clinicians.

To administrate for the Drugs misuse LES.

Manage the practice policy for blue prescription.

To support Care homes with residents prescription.

To set up repeat dispensing in line with Practice Protocol

The Orchard Medical Centre is a busy GP surgery in Kingswood with approximately 12,600 patients.

We are a training practice, and host students from Year 1s to GP Registrars.

The Orchard Medical Centre provides a friendly and supportive work environment and are seeking candidates who will positively contribute toward this culture. We are proud of our Administrative structure