Wickham Market Medical Centre is looking for a qualified dispenser on a part time basis, for a minimum of 25 hours per week. We are a semi-rural dispensing practice with approximately 10,000 patients and we dispense to approximately 5500 of these.
Our dispensary is open Monday to Friday 08.30 - 18.30 daily.
Schedule:
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends
The main responsibilities of the role include:
- To provide a comprehensive dispensing service to approved patients on the Practice List.
- 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.
- To ensure that the procedures governing charging and exemption for prescriptions is carried out in accordance with statutory obligations.
- To keep up to date with new medications, their actions and side effects.
- 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needs of the practice with the objective of ensuring continuity of supply for patients and minimising wastage through out of date stock.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.
- 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 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 transactions incorporating the use of computers when available and appropriate.
- To ensure correct protocol's are completed when dispensing controlled drugs.