Job Description

About the Role

Newport Pagnell Medical Centrehas an exciting opportunity for a hardworking, enthusiastic and innovative prescription clerk to join our practice. This role is offered on a part time basis, hours are negotiable and can be discussed at interview.

The successful candidate will report to the prescriptions lead and the main responsibilities of the role include:
Process prescriptions and provide an efficient and safe system of medication reviews Liaise with all relevant parties, including face to face, phone contact and email with patients, clinicians and other health care professionals regarding medication queries Ensure all administration duties and patient requests are processed in accordance with practice policy Process repeat prescriptions on a daily basis, ensuring compliance with the practice protocol Perform regular searches on drugs requiring monitoring
For further details, please see the attached job description.

About the Candidate

The successful candidate will:


Have strong written and verbal communication skills Experience of dealing with the public Competent using Microsoft Word/Excel and electronic prescribing
Previous experience working as a prescriptions clerk desirable

About Us

Newport Pagnell Medical Centre is a large training practice based in the town of Newport Pagnell, with two further sites in the area. We have 30,000+ patients and own PCN, The Bridge. We like to support learning and development and can offer NHS pension as part of our employment package.

Other information:


- Rated as Outstanding by CQC

- Part of a Primary Care Network

- 6 GP Partners, 10 Salaried GPs

- 2 GP Trainer/Practice Educators

- Support for both Student Nurses, Student Paramedics and Medical Students

- Urgent Care Team

- SystmOne Practice

- Visiting consultants

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Please note this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.