Job description

Job responsibilities

Key responsibilities and tasks

To support the PCN Prescription Hub

Full training will be provided for this role and previous experience as a Prescriptions Clerk is not essential.

Process repeat prescriptions on a daily basis ensuring compliance with the prescription hub protocols.

Perform regular searches on drugs requiring monitoring hence minimising the risk of adverse effects.

Ensure all current medication have relevant, current authorisations.

Promote cost-effective prescribing at the practice through switching drugs to the generic preparation when appropriate and encouraging the use of local primary care trust formulary medication choices.

Deal with prescription queries from a range of healthcare professionals including GPs, nurses, community pharmacists, nursing home staff as well as reception/administration staff at the practice.

Deal with medication changes from all hospital letters, removing old medication, and adding new or making changes. Add any relevant monitoring diaries.

Perform searches and act upon drug alerts.

Add new patient medication. Pass to registered GP for approval highlighting any concerns found, add relevant diary entries/recall. Liaise with patient via phone call, SMS or letter. Liaise with patients pharmacy regarding changes, if necessary.

Liaise with Pharmacies regarding monthly dosette box prescriptions.

Be the first point of contact to coordinate responses to email/telephone enquiries.

Support the PCN team in coordinating audits to support improved patient outcomes.

This list of responsibilities is not exhaustive and is subject to changed based on business needs.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• See Attachment

Desirable

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Experience

Essential

• See Attachment

Desirable

• See Attachment

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Connexus PCN

Address

Brooklea Health Centre

Wick Road

Bristol

BS4 4HU

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.nightingalevalleypractice.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key responsibilities and tasks

1. To support the Neighborhood Health Implementation Programme (NNHIP) pilot work across the PCN

2. To support the work of the PCN multi-disciplinary team (MDT) to enable them to provide high quality patient care.

3. To support the PCN Patient Care Projects and Services

4. To support the PCN to develop and maintain links with our patient community :

5 To support the PCN Prescribing Hub

This list of responsibilities is not exhaustive and is subject to change based on business needs.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• See Attachment

Desirable

• See Attachment

Experience

Essential

• See Attachment

Desirable

• See Attachment

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Connexus PCN

Address

Wick Road

Bristol

BS4 4HU

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.nightingalevalleypractice.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Assimilate study protocols and co-ordinate the wider research team's efforts by scheduling and delegation of tasks.
• Conduct searches on the EMIS platform to identify potential study participants.
• Contribute to the delivery of individual studies, including acting as a contact point for participants, assisting with data collection, and completion of other tasks as necessary, under the direction of the Principal Investigator, sub-investigator or nurse lead for that study.
• Ensure research equipment is maintained and calibrated in accordance with manufacturer's instructions, and track capacity of storage requirements.
• Organise wider logistical elements of study delivery including the monitoring, restocking and disposal of consumables.
• Create and maintain data-bases and trackers to ensure efficient scheduling and running of patient visits, and administrative tasks including expense claims.
• Support the wider team to organise and deliver site visits including the preparation of consumables, the processing, storage and onward shipping of study samples.
• Support research team members to maintain sponsor IT platform access as needed.
• Track and manage financial claims with the NIHR's South West Central Regional Research Delivery Network, and commercial sponsors.
• Act as administrator for the research team's activities including calendar management and scheduling of meetings, participant visits, and sponsor visits.
• Ensure documentation is accurate, organised and auditable at all times, and archived in accordance with regulations.
• Contribute to study documentation and notes to files as needed.
• Act as the central point of contact for internal and external queries.
• Respond promptly and effectively to queries from the wider research team, study sponsors, NIHR contacts, and regulatory bodies.
• Facilitate sponsor site visits, ensuring appropriate response to data queries, collation of adverse event reports, and preparation for data locks.
• Develop and maintain the public facing profile of our organisation's research activities including maintaining an up to date and accurate profile of the studies we collaborate with and opportunities for participation.
• Work with our PCN's Community Engagement Lead to identify opportunities to widen research participation in historically less well represented demographic groups.
• Compile regular reports on the team's research activity for presentation to the practice's partners and management team.
• Contribute to the oversight of the team's compliance with regulatory responsibilities and specific protocol requirements.
• Contribute to security in data handling such that it meets sponsor and regulatory requirements throughout the study lifecyle.
• Assist the wider team with equipment monitoring activities including temperature checks.
• Contribute to the development of policies, protocols and standard operating procedures that ensure compliant, standardised activity across the research team.
• Oversee maintenance of up to date training logs, delegation logs and staff records including GCP training and research CVs, for all members of the research team across all research activities.
• Participate in ongoing training and development to keep an up to date knowledge of regulatory responsibilities and best practice.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Higher education achievement in health sciences, public health, business administration or equivalent experience.

Skills and attributes

Essential

• -Demonstrable organisation and time-management skills.
• -A high degree of self-motivation and the ability to exercise initiative when working with relative autonomy.
• -Strong communication skills with the ability to to be concise and precise but also amiable and with the ability to quickly form constructive working relationships.
• -Integrity and reliability in all actions.
• -Proficiency in using applications of the Microsoft Office Suite.

Desirable

• -Proficiency in using EMIS and other research specific software platforms.
• -The ability to use of Artificial Intelligence in practice to improve workflow processes.

Experience

Essential

• Experience working in research delivery in any setting.

Desirable

• -Experience working in the delivery of academic and commercial research in a primary care setting.
• -Experience acting in a co-ordinator role for the delivery of healthcare research.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Nightingale Valley Practice

Address

Brooklea Health Centre

Wick Road

Bristol

BS4 4HU

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.nightingalevalleypractice.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)