Duties & Responsibilities

Deliver Results:

• Delivery of Objectives: ensure personal targets/objectives are achieved and make a positive contribution to Dispensary function delivering against its OGSM goals

Transcribing, Dispensing and Compliance

• To accurately transcribe prescriptions from the prescriber into electronic format, which in turn will populate the patient medication labels
• Ensure prescriptions meet legal requirements as per guidelines and regulations
• Liaise with prescribers and patients to resolve prescription queries
• To accurately and efficiently pick, dispense and pack medication and ancillary products, in line with all relevant regulatory and Company requirements and procedures, for patients
• To ensure that safe systems of work are practiced with due regard to Health and Safety regulations and pharmaceutical standards
• To perform duties in accordance with specific service contracts
• Ensure medication is safe to supply to the patient

Workflow

• To process prescriptions efficiently to meet agreed productivity targets
• To effectively rotate between therapies when working whilst maintaining accuracy
• To process prescriptions accurately to allow for the correct production of medication labels and Sales Orders
• To rotate stock, check dates and ensure, as part of the dispensing process, that any issues are brought to the attention of the leadership team

Training & Continuous Improvement

• Maintain professional knowledge base. As part of this there will be an expectation to rotate through relevant departments as required by the business.
• Complete all mandatory training (including passing a validation process) and identify areas for improvement
• Record any near misses or dispensing errors and highlight to the leadership team
• Ensure reflective practices are completed and to implement preventative actions into working practices

Other

• To safely and accurately pack medication and wholesale orders according to the Sales Orders and in line with Packing Competencies
• To carry out any other reasonable duties defined by the leadership team