Prescribing Clerk

Job summary

Cardinal Medical Practice has a fantastic and highly rewarding opportunity for a dedicated and motivated Prescribing Clerk to join our progressive and innovative training practice, which encourages the development of all staff and where you will have support and investment in your career progression.

Patient care is paramount to the Partners alongside the well-being of the team within the practice. With outstanding staff retention, a varied multi-disciplinary team, Cardinal Medical Practice offers a chance to the right candidate to be part of an amazing team who arent afraid to think outside of the box and can offer incredible prospects and a happy, friendly place to work.

We are flexible and keenly support and promote staff work-life balance and development, currently supporting 4 Nurses on various stages of the Nurse Practitioner pathway and modules.

Sound like what you are looking for?

Why not come and join our Cardinal family?

Main duties of the job

Manage the repeat prescribing system to ensure an accurate, timely andefficient service.

The Practice is a paper-light environment,and the main responsibilities of the post-holder will be to scan and summariseRead Code relevant information from external correspondence in to the Practicecomputer system, working strictly in accordance with the Practice summarisingprotocol.

Support and deputise for other members of the administration team whenrequired.

About us

Located on the outskirts of Ipswich town centre, Cardinal Medical Practice is the largest medical practice in Suffolk and was formed as a result of a merger between Chesterfield Drive, Deben Road and Norwich Road Surgeries. The practice is vastly dedicated to offering high quality care to a population of approximately 30,000 patients.

The practice has a clinical team of 4 GP Partners, 4 Salaried GP's, 3 GP Registrars, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Pharmacists, Paramedics, Physicians Associates, Practice Nurses, Nurse Associates, Healthcare Assistants, Care Co-ordinators and additional healthcare professionals. The team is supported by Management and a large administrative team.

If you would like any further information about the role, please contact Andrew Preston, General Manager in the first instance -

Informal visits are welcomed and encouraged.

Job description

Job responsibilities

RepeatPrescribing System

Deal withrequests for patients for repeat issues of their medication

Ensure theprescribing is carried out in a cost effective and safe way and patients onlyreceive what they need.

Ensurepatients medication is prescribed to optimise the dose.

Remove anydiscontinued medication from the prescribing screen under GP supervision

Checkpatients records to ensure they have had the necessary health checks and bloodtests needed.

Maximisethe efficiency of the practice by checking patient alerts and dealing with themas part of the repeat prescribing service

Reviewpatients records to ensure they receive regular medication reviews asappropriate.

Assist theGP Prescribing lead to meet prescribing targets by switching patients to morecost effective medication.

Liaisewith pharmacies in respect of patient queries.

Manage thestock of prescriptions and prescription pads to ensure the clinical staff haveaccess to supplies

Person Specification

Experience

Desirable

Experience working in Primary Care Experience working in a GP Practice

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