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Prescription Clerk | Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

Job details
Posting date: 26 July 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £22,816 - £24,336 pro rata
Hours: Part time
Closing date: 25 August 2024
Location: Salford, M6 5FW
Company: Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 6514372/236-SCO-AC231-24-P-A

Summary


An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Prescription Clerk to work in partnership with the Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technician at the practice to process repeat prescription requests in line with practice protocols.

The post holder will also be the first port of call to deal with medication queries, they will escalate appropriately to other members of the medicines management or clinical team. They will build and maintain good relationships with all the care homes and local pharmacies. The post holder will work with the medicines management team to help to reduce prescribing costs, by ensuring medicines waste is minimal.

Process repeat prescriptions on a daily basis ensuring compliance with the prescription hub protocols.

Perform regular searches on drugs requiring monitoring hence minimising the risk of adverse effects.

Ensure all current medication have relevant, current authorisations.

Promote cost-effective prescribing at the practice through switching drugs to the generic preparation when appropriate and encouraging the use of local primary care trust formulary medication choices.

Deal with prescription queries from a range of healthcare professionals including GP’s, nurses, community pharmacists, nursing home staff as well as reception/administration staff at the practice.

Perform searches and act upon drug alerts.

Liaise with Pharmacies regarding monthly dosette box prescriptions.

Be the first point of contact to coordinate responses to email/telephone enquiries.

Support the PCN team in coordinating audits to support improved patient outcomes.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website:www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk

We respect the value of difference. So, our aim is to employ people representative of the communities we serve. Regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, trans status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, all are welcome.

We continually review our recruitment processes to ensure they are supporting us achieving an inclusive and representative team.

We recognise that many people find interviews daunting and the conventional interview approach, of unseen questions, often impacts performance on the day. We are therefore piloting sending interview questions, to candidates, in advance. This vacancy is within one of our pilot areas therefore if you are invited for interview you will receive your interview questions in advance of your interview date. Feedback on this process will also be requested to help our teams understand and evaluate your recruitment experience.


This advert closes on Thursday 8 Aug 2024

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