Dispenser

We are 4 GP Surgeries located in the beautiful Fens.

We have an exciting opportunity for a qualified dispenser to join our team at Rainbow Surgery and Doddington Medical Centre. You will be providing acute and repeat medication to our patients, both weekly and monthly prescriptions and dealing with queries.

• Must have an NVQ Level 2 or equivalent in Pharmacy Service Skills
• To accurately and efficiently dispense medication
• To issue prescriptions for repeat medication when required
• To be able to work well on their own and within a team
• To communicate with colleagues, patients and their representatives
• To operate efficient stock control, with the objective of ensuring continuity of supply for patients and minimising wastage
• Be able to deal with problems and enquiries

You will be joining a friendly and helpful team across 4 practices, dispensing at all sites - Doddington, Wimblington, Manea and Rainbow.

We expect all our staff to follow our core values:

• Be Collaborative - respectful, takes personal accountability, open and honest, fair
• Be Healthy - supportive and caring, listens and consults, focuses on the positives, takes time to reflect
• Be Ambitious - promotes learning and personal growth, constantly improves performance, encouraging, develops self and others
• Be Open - demonstrates trust in others, shows personal respect and sensitivity, enables great teamwork, creates co-operation and enthusiasm

Job Summary:

To accurately and efficiently process all relevant prescriptions as authorised by GPs and prescribing nurses where appropriate in accordance with the principles of good practice

To assist the Dispensing Manager in ensuring effective financial control of the dispensary

Job Responsibilities:

Dispensing

Dispensing acute, repeat and private prescriptions, controlled drugs and special items

Not to dispense medicines to unauthorised persons, without the doctors consent

To ensure that all medicines and appliances dispensed are checked against the prescription and whenever there is doubt about the appropriateness of the item, or about the dose or labelling instructions to check with the authorising doctor or duty doctor

Ensuring the Dispensary area remains clean and tidy

Maintaining complete and accurate records for controlled drugs

Prescriptions

Handing out prescriptions and collecting charges when appropriate

Endorsing prescriptions when necessary

Collect all due prescription charges and ensure that the patient declaration on the reverse of the FP10 is duly filled in and signed by the patient/representative

Generating prescriptions

Stock Control

Ordering appropriate quantities of goods via the wholesalers computer link

Checking goods as and when they are delivered

Returning and claiming for incorrect/missing goods to the wholesalers

Stocking shelves, refrigerators and other storage areas using rotation method

To operate efficient stock control appropriate to the needs of the practice with the objective of ensuring continuity of supply for patients and minimising wastage through out of date stock

To ensure that drugs are stored in an appropriate manner in accordance with the accompanying instructions

Removing out of date stock from the shelves, refrigerators and other storage areas

Disposal of returned unused medicines

Other

To answer telephone calls & passing on messages as appropriate

Dealing with problems & enquiries

Inputting information onto computer

To work flexibly within the team & to provide cover across all sites as necessary

To ensure that shelves and all work surfaces are regularly cleaned to maintain a high level of hygiene within the dispensary and that all dispensary equipment is kept clean and kept in good working order

To take prompt action in response to any drug alert bulletins that may be received from time to time

To ensure that refrigerated items are stored at the appropriate temperature and to maintain a temperature control record/logbook

To maintain full and accurate records of all dispensing

To undertake any necessary work as may be required and appropriate to maintain a high standard and efficient dispensing service

To cover delivering prescriptions to our housebound patients when necessary

Confidentiality:

• In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately
• In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential
• Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to…