Medicines Delivery Driver

Mereside Medical Sites, Staploe and Cathedral Medical Centres and Haddenham Surgery

Permanent, part time, up to 30 hours per week (FTE = 37 hours per week), job share applicants welcome – we are particularly interested in applicants seeking approximately 15 hrs per week

£12.82 per hr

You must be eligible to work in the UK, full UK driving licence with no disqualifications and an acceptable driving record, and be able to undertake delivery driving as required.

Mereside Medical is a flourishing group of three East Cambridgeshire practices in Ely, Haddenham and Soham, together serving c.45,000 patients. As a group, we’ve grown rapidly and now employ more than 170 people across the three practices. We are people-centred in our approach to work and believe that every contact that a patient has with our staff is as valuable as the next in the patient journey.

We believe in clinical excellence, and that general practice is the cornerstone of well-being in our community. We are innovative and forward-looking, and we embrace technology to enable more effective, efficient, and connected ways of working to deliver ever better outcomes for our patients.

Our goal is to deliver on the ambitions laid out in the NHS 10 year Health Plan for England in a way that is locally relevant, valued by patients, and satisfying for our staff. In addition to our core general practice work we run a large clinical research trials unit and we work closely with the ICB to develop innovative ways to improve local service provision.

We are the lead practice for one of the two local PCNs and are represented in both.

We are proud to be the host organisation for the NIHR Greater Cambridge & Suffolk Commercial Research Delivery Centre (Primary Care), one of only 14 in England. This prestigious designation recognises our commitment to accelerating commercial clinical research delivery for health and economic benefit across our region.

To provide a safe, secure, reliable and courteous delivery and transfer service for dispensed medicines and stock.

The post holder will deliver medicines using the provided vehicle to patients at their homes or other agreed locations and transport medicines and authorised items between sites, in accordance with practice procedures and relevant Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).

The role includes, where specifically authorised and trained, the secure transport of Controlled Drugs (CDs) and cold-chain medicines.

The post holder is responsible for maintaining the security, confidentiality and integrity of medicines and other associated information throughout each journey, accurately recording deliveries and transfers, and promptly escalating any concerns or incidents.

The post holder does not provide clinical advice, make clinical decisions, alter medicines or make substitutions.

• Prepare and deliver medicines safely to patients and agreed locations
• Transport medicines, authorised dispensary and other items securely between sites and agreed locations
• Use the three-point check to confirm the correct patient/address or authorised recipient before handover
• Use the approved Delivery App/system to record routes, deliveries, transfers and failed deliveries
• Maintain secure custody of medicines and other items and protect them from loss, damage, unauthorised access and inappropriate environmental conditions
• Provide a professional and respectful service and refer all medication or clinical queries to the dispensary
• Never leave medicines or other items unattended or in an unauthorised location.

• Transport Controlled Drugs and cold-chain medicines only when appropriately trained, assessed and…