Prescription Clerk P/T for Thursdays & Fridays

The candidate will be responsible for undertaking

a range of duties which include providing general assistance to the Practice Team and reception / telephones and act as a focal point of communication between the GPs, Managers,

Receptionists, Patients and local Pharmacies as well as other members of the

Primary Health Care Team, to ensure patients prescriptions are produced within

the current protocols of the surgery.

following are the core responsibilities for the Prescription clerk:

To process, all medication

requests sent in by patients using the protocols in place.

Ensure that prescriptions are

completed accurately and efficiently following protocol

Process repeat

prescription requests

Deal with queries

over the counter and on the telephone

Entering details

of community nurses prescriptions into patients records

reception staff to undertake script and data duties in your absence

Any other duty as

allocated by members of the management team

Process online

repeat prescriptions

To collect repeat

prescription request from the fax machine, post box and reception

To liaise with

patients and pharmacies regarding queries and requests

To ensure that

patients queries on medication are highlighted to the relevant GP

To regularly go

through prescriptions not collected and unlikely to be collected as a result of

timescale, to remove the details from the patient records and then destroy the

prescription

Ensure up to date

patient information is recorded

Our clinical team includes, GPs, Nurse practitioner, Nurses, HCAs, Pharmacists and Paramedics. We operate over two sites, which is at North Street and Ashton Gardens. We are a training practice.

We offer to our team

Experience

Qualifications

Essential: - Educated to GCSE level or equivalent

Desirable: - GCSE Mathematics & English (C or above); - NVQ Level 2 in Health and Social Care

Skills and Knowledge