Job Title: PCN Prescriptions Clerk
Salary: from £21450 depending on experience
Hours: up to 37.5
Department: PCN Pharmacy Team
Reports to: PCN Pharmacy Team Leader / PCN Leadership Team
West Leeds Primary Care Network (WLPCN) provides enhanced clinical services across six GP surgeries within the Pudsey and Bramley area, with a total patient population of approximately 70k
Core Responsibilities – Clinical
- Co-ordinating and preparing repeat prescriptions to be signed off by a qualified pharmacist
- Setting up Electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD)where appropriate
- Community pharmacy liaison with support from the wider pharmacy team
- Monitor and co-ordinate Long Term Condition patient recall lists
- To respond to medication queries from patients and staff in a professional manner referring to the clinical pharmacist when appropriate.
- Process hospital correspondence such as TANs
- Support the pharmacy team to improve quality and safety of prescribing
- Ad hoc grade appropriate administrative tasks for the pharmacy team
- Liaise with patients where appropriate in order to encourage them to order what they need ( to avoid over prescribing)
