Prescribing Clerk
| Posting date: | 07 October 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Negotiable |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 October 2025 |
| Location: | Bromley, BR1 4PX |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | A2728-25-0004 |
Summary
Duties will include coordinating and preparing repeat prescriptions for our patients, data entry onto patient records, and liaising with patients and community pharmacies. The tasks and responsibilities to be undertaken may include any or all of the items in the following lists, dependent on current and evolving practice workload and staffing levels: Delivering the technical aspects of prescription preparation to ensure the safeprescribingof medicines. Delivering an efficient prescription service and ensuring service targets are met and errors are minimized. Comply with legal and professional requirements, accepted guidance on professional practice, and with safe systems of work for re-authorizing repeat prescriptions. Run analysis reports and gather information from a variety of sources for continuous improvement, safe management of repeat prescriptions, and to co-ordinate medication reviews or changes. Liaise with pharmacies on the supply of prescribed drugs, alert clinicians of any supply issues and forward information on the recommended alternatives. Expedite urgent prescriptions to help ensure a safe and responsive service for our patients. Respond to enquiries from patients and pharmacies in a courteous, timely and efficient manner, by telephone, letter and email, occasionally face-to-face and maintain precise records of the communications.