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Job Description
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- Ensuring that requests for repeat prescriptions are actioned within 72 hours. This includes checking email requests and involves a rota system to cover the collection and drop off of all prescriptions from each site.
- 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: liaising and discussing any enquires or queries raised by the clinical team.
- General ad hoc administration work.
- Flexibility to cover other areas when required, multi-skill mix.
- Keeping up-to-date with all prescribing guidelines and protocols, relevant to the position.
- Possess experience of working in a busy, public environment.
- Flexible, with a positive attitude.
- Demonstrate good team working and communication skills.
- Demonstrate an excellent standard of patient care.
- General practice experience and knowledge of SystmOne would be an advantage.
- Possess experience of working in a busy, public environment.
- Flexible, with a positive attitude.
- Demonstrate good team working and communication skills.
- Demonstrate an excellent standard of patient care.
- General practice experience and knowledge of SystmOne would be an advantage.
Job summary
The Pall Mall Surgery has an opportunity for a prescription clerk to join our busy prescribing team, at the heart of our patient care service. This role is offered on a part-time basis, for 12 hours per week working, on Mondays and Tuesdays.
Main duties of the job
About us
The Pall Mall Surgery is a large, modern GMS training practice operating from a contemporary health centre in Leigh On Sea which in 2022 was voted the best place to live in Essex. The town has excellent transport links, with two separate train lines into London. The practice is popular in its locality and supports 21,500 patients from birth to end-of-life care. We are proud to hold our CQC rating of Good in all areas.
Details
Date posted
06 June 2025
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
£12.21 an hour
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
28678
Job locations
1st Floor, Leigh Primary Care Centre
918 London Road
Leigh on Sea
Essex
SS9 3NG
Job descriptionJob description
Job responsibilities
If you would like to find out more information about this role, please do not hesitate to get in contact with us.
Job responsibilities
If you would like to find out more information about this role, please do not hesitate to get in contact with us.
Person SpecificationPerson Specification
Experience
Essential
Experience
Essential
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
Primary Care Careers
Address
1st Floor, Leigh Primary Care Centre
918 London Road
Leigh on Sea
Essex
SS9 3NG
Employer's website
https://www.eoeprimarycarecareers.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
Primary Care Careers
Address
1st Floor, Leigh Primary Care Centre
918 London Road
Leigh on Sea
Essex
SS9 3NG
Employer's website
https://www.eoeprimarycarecareers.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
About the company
National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.
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