Prescribing ClerkinWorkington inWorkingtonPUBLISHED THU 6 MAR 2025

£22,649.38 to £23,592.92 a year Dependant on Experience PERMANENT

James Street Group PracticerT024U6S

Dynamic Work Environment, The role offers a chance to work in a busy and demanding setting, providing diverse daily challenges.

Team Collaboration, You'll work closely with a dedicated medicines team, GPs/ANPs, and community pharmacies, fostering strong professional relationships.

Patient Interaction, The job allows for direct engagement with patients, providing an opportunity to make a positive impact on their healthcare experience.

Flexible Working Hours, With options for job-sharing and flexible hours, the role accommodates work-life balance.

Skill Development, The position enhances organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills, valuable for career growth in healthcare.

Contribution to Patient Safety, By managing prescriptions and conducting safety audits, you play an essential role in ensuring safe medication practices for patients.

Professional Growth, The role opens avenues for learning about prescription management and medication reviews, vital areas within healthcare.

Join Our Caring Team as a Prescribing Clerk at James Street Group Practice in Workington!

Are you a compassionate and organised individual looking to make a difference in healthcare? We invite you to take on an exciting opportunity with our friendly medicines team, where your skills will help streamline patient care and manage vital prescription processes. This dynamic role is perfect for those with previous experience in a clinical setting or a strong background in caring roles, as you’ll be the first point of contact for patients in need of assistance with their medications. We value flexibility, so job-share or adjusted hours can be considered to suit your needs!

In this key position, you’ll handle medication requests, collaborate with our team of healthcare professionals, and ensure patients receive their prescriptions accurately and promptly. Your excellent communication skills will shine as you connect with patients, pharmacies, and healthcare providers while supporting vulnerable individuals with their medication needs. If you're ready to use your organisational talents and compassionate nature to enhance patient care in a vibrant healthcare environment, we’d love to hear from you!

Dynamic Work Environment, The role offers a chance to work in a busy and demanding setting, providing diverse daily challenges.

Team Collaboration, You'll work closely with a dedicated medicines team, GPs/ANPs, and community pharmacies, fostering strong professional relationships.

Patient Interaction, The job allows for direct engagement with patients, providing an opportunity to make a positive impact on their healthcare experience.

Flexible Working Hours, With options for job-sharing and flexible hours, the role accommodates work-life balance.

Skill Development, The position enhances organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills, valuable for career growth in healthcare.

Contribution to Patient Safety, By managing prescriptions and conducting safety audits, you play an essential role in ensuring safe medication practices for patients.

Professional Growth, The role opens avenues for learning about prescription management and medication reviews, vital areas within healthcare.

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and reliable prescribing clerk to join our dedicated and friendly medicines team. You will be working in a busy and demanding environment and therefore need to be highly organised with a sense of urgency. Knowledge of working with prescriptions would be an advantage. The ideal candidate will have excellent organisational and strong inter-personnel skills, while being flexible and committed.

Hours of work should reflect general practice hours 37.5 hours per week within 8.30am to 6.30pm. Job-share and flexible hours will be considered

Duties will include, but are not limited to:

Will be required to work on reception desk on a rota basis dealing with medication requests and queries from patients.
Manage the towns prescription lines
Management of the Practice Medicines Managers task box
Process patients repeat prescriptions accurately and in a timely manner.
Work closely with our medicines team, GPs/ANP, patients and local community pharmacies
Be the main point of contact for patient enquiries regarding their prescriptions
Make calls to and receive calls from patients, pharmacies and healthcare professionals
Identify where medication reviews and other aspects of patient care are due and help organise this work.
Support the management of the medicines hub email system
To undertake general routine safety audits to support the clinical pharmacist and GPs with the medication review process.
Support the repeat prescribing for identified vulnerable patients and act as their point of contact for medication queries and request.
Have excellent communication skills and speak to our patients in a caring manner, you will need to be able to work on your own and to prioritise your work.
Answer the telephone promptly and politely to both patients and the clinical team on behalf of the pharmacy team
To undertake administrative tasks resulting from the prescribing process
To work in accordance with the practice prescribing policy at all times.
To ensure alerts are placed on patients notes relating to any prescribing issue