Medication Coordinator - Amersham, United Kingdom - Rectory Meadow Surgery

Description

Job Description:
Medication Coordinator

Our preference is for this to be an afternoon role from Monday to Friday. Or slightly longer shifts 3-4 days per week. Would suit someone with a dispensing / medicines background though not essential.


Job Title
Medicines Coordinator


Salary / Hours
TBC - Part time 12-16hours per week


Responsible to
The Partnership


Accountable to
Practice Manager


This Job Description is correct as of 23rdJanuary 2023
Author(s) - SW/DR


Job Purpose
Working with your team colleagues to provide an efficient administrative service to the clinicians and the practice as required.

The primary purpose is to ensure that all patients on medications that require monitoring at specific intervals are called for this to enable continuation of safe prescribing.

This role holder will also be a point of contact for patients with medication enquiries, prescription issue queries, and to assist the prescriptions secretary in processing repeat prescription requests.

Job Summary

• Maintain a call and recall system for patients to understand numbers of patients in each drug group
• Awareness of each drug to be closely monitored and what tests are required at what interval
• Managing clinician initiated tasks with regards to medication and monitoring
• Proactively call in patients who are on drugs that need interval monitoring
• Advise patients and supporting them and their carers
• Liaise with secondary care and other providers; responding to their enquiries and requests.
• Create new searches and running preset searches regularly to check for patient compliance
• Liaise with the Primary Care Network Pharmacy team to compliment ongoing projects
• Support the Data Quality Lead with achievement and
• Developing and maintaining knowledge of the practice's clinical system (EMIS).

Administrative Duties

• Create, respond and complete electronic tasks
• Deal with telephone enquiries
• Liaise with GPs, advising of any concerns with patient care related to medicines
• Develop skills in line with service needs and undertake the appropriate training courses
• Other clerical duties that the clinical team may ask to be undertaken
• Attend Primary Health Care Team meetings

The post holder would be required to occasionally be flexible with the pattern of working hours.


General responsibilities for all staff
The post holder is expected to;

• Adhere to practice policies and procedures and relevant legislation including the requirements of any professional bodies.
• Attend mandatory training as identified by the practice
• Highlight potential development areas.

Confidentiality:

The post holder must maintain the confidentiality of information about patients' staff and practice business in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and Caldecott principles.

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 postholder 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 authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data

Health & Safety:

Employees must be aware of the responsibilities placed upon them under the Health Safety at work Act (1974), to ensure that the agreed safety procedures are carried out to maintain a safe environment for employees and visitors.

All staff have a responsibility to report all clinical and non-clinical accidents, incidents or near-misses promptly and when requested to co-operate with any investigations under-taken.

• Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines
• Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks
• Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills
• Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards
• Actively reporting of health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised
• Keeping own work areas and general / patient areas generally clean, assisting in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness consistent with the scope of the job holder's role
• Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum annually)
• Reporting po