Prescription Clerk

**About the Role**:
Chelmer Medical Partnership has an opportunity for a prescription clerk to join our busy prescribing team, at the heart of our patient care service, on a part time basis for 16.5 hours per week (days and times to be discussed).

The role is responsible for ensuring a safe and efficient operation processing repeat prescriptions, liaising with our GP’s, clinical pharmacists, and community pharmacies and providing patient education and advice where appropriate.

The main responsibilities of the role include:

- Responding to all queries and requests from chemists, nursing homes and district nurses, regarding the issue of prescriptions.
- Keeping repeat prescription information up-to-date in the patient journal, such as letters and doctors' requests.
- Sending out review letters.
- Organising blood tests (through ICE system) or blood pressure checks for patients, relevant to their prescribing needs.
- Prescribing Incentive Scheme - issue reports and letters, working around any guidelines issued to ensure budget reductions where possible.
- Medicine management - liaise and discuss any enquires or queries raised by the clinical team.
- General ad hoc administration work.
- Flexibility to cover other areas when required - multi-skill mix. Keep up-to-date with all prescribing guidelines and protocols, relevant to the position.
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- possess experience of working in a busy, public environment.
- be flexible, with a positive attitude.
- demonstrate good team working and communication skills.
- demonstrate an excellent standard of patient care.
- ability to work extra hours to support colleagues holidays and sickness.

General practice experience and knowledge of_ _SystmOne would be an advantage.

**About Us**:
Chelmer Medical Partnership is 3-site patient practice whose ethos is to offer patient-centred healthcare to our list of a 32,500 patients. There is strong evidence that health outcomes are socially determined and that the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and grow old influence their health. We enjoy multidisciplinary teamworking and the opportunities that collaborative working in a practice and PCN provides.

The benefits of joining our organisation include:

- Access to the NHS pension
- NHS benefits - such as discounts on shopping, food and travel
- Competitive rates of pay
- Uniform
- 6 weeks' annual leave, pro rata

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