Job Summary
We are seeking to recruit a highly motivated and enthusiastic Medicines Manager to join our team at Millom. This is a part-time position offering 30 hours per week, ideal for someone who is passionate about making a difference in patient care and medicines management. The successful candidate will support the safe and efficient use of medicines, overseeing key processes, ensuring policy compliance, and working closely with both clinical and administrative teams to promote best practice.
We Are Looking For Someone Who Is
* Excellent at communication and organisation, with the ability to work collaboratively across teams.
* Friendly, approachable, and helpful, with a positive attitude and a commitment to delivering high-quality service.
* Proactive and solution-focused, with a strong 'can do' approach to challenges and tasks.
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who enjoys working in a dynamic environment and is keen to contribute to continuous improvement in medicines management.
Closing Date: 15/09/2025
Interview Date: 30/09/2025
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Main duties of the job
As a Medicines Manager You Will Be Expected To:
* Be the main provision of an efficient, patient-friendly repeat prescribing, audits, stocktake and ordering of vaccines and medical consumables.
* You will contribute to the efficiency and quality improvement of the service to both patients and clinicians by putting into place processes that minimize the chance of error, reduce medicine wastage, and improve the quality and accuracy of the practice repeat prescriptions.
* All staff are expected to work to Cumbria Health Values:
o Clinically focused - Everything every one of us does is for the patient
o Responsive - We listen, and we respond quickly in a patient focussed way
o One Team - We work together to provide a high-quality service which is organised and consistent, and in partnership with both the local Acute and Community Trusts
o High Standards - We provide skilled professionals working to the highest standards who are passionate about improving patient care
o Growth & Sustainability - With our strong roots we will continue to thrive and grow
o Communities - Connecting and engaging to meet local needs
About Us
Cumbria Health on Call - CH places the patient, their family and their community at the heart of everything we do. We are an award-winning organisation, the first out-of-hours organisation in the country to be rated as outstanding by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We provide primary health care services, both in and out of hours, across Cumbria. We are values-driven and place great emphasis on inclusivity and the wellbeing and development of our staff, while striving to provide a consistently high-quality service. Our service is designed to improve health and wellbeing.
Working for CH can offer flexible opportunities in terms of location, hours and working patterns so you can enjoy a great work life balance. In order to provide the best patient care we understand the importance of ensuring staff satisfaction and are consistently trying to ensure we offer our staff a positive working environment whether that be though training or social events.
Listen to your heart. Have the work life balance you'd love.
Details
Date posted: 29 August 2025
Pay scheme: Other
Salary: £28,419 a year FTE - Pro-rata to 30 hours
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time
Reference number: B0554-25-0099
Job locations: Waterloo House Surgery, Millom Community Hospital, Lapstone Road, Millom, Cumbria, LA18 4BY
Job Description and Responsibilities
The following list represents the broad range of tasks that may be required to be undertaken routinely or periodically. This list is not exhaustive and the role may include additional duties:
* Collect monthly data to monitor improvements in line with core medicine management objectives
* Attend and disseminate learnings from the monthly medicine meetings, relevant courses and training events
* Weekly co-ordinate a cohort of patients who need their medication ordering in a structured manner to ensure safer compliance and to restrict over-ordering; keep clinicians up to date with changes in the cohort's medication and any anomalies
* Co-ordinate and keep up to date the High-Risk Drug Monitoring register; monthly recalling patients for regular bloods to ensure safe management of care
* Generate prescriptions for all DDS packs for local pharmacies
* Support quality improvement measures and contribute to the Quality and Outcomes Framework and Local Enhanced Services
* Manage medication optimisation, working with the clinical lead, practice pharmacists and prescribers to default to cost-effective alternatives to save NHS money
* Work closely with other Cumbria Health practices Medicines Management Teams
* Assist the MOP to manage safety alerts, maintain an electronic version, and ensure action with GPs for patient safety
* Build expertise to optimise benefits from digital systems (eg Eclipse)
* Promote better use of medicines by developing and improving patient information
* Work with the prescription clerk to address patient concerns and provide medicine management advice
* Apply judgement in assessing medicine management problems and determine the best course of action
* Monitor usage of certain prescriptions and work with clinicians to improve efficacy and safety (eg opiate prescribing)
* Facilitate Medicine Management team meetings within the practice and ensure attendance
* Organise and submit monthly prescription claim forms to NHSBSA for remuneration
* Assist the MOP with collation and interpretation of PMM scheme results and preparing progress reports
* Help implement drug formularies and treatment guidelines
* Maintain a record of all drugs stored within the practice and ensure stock aligns with Cumbria Health guidance
* Line management of the practice's Prescription Clerk
* Other reasonable administration and medicines management tasks as needed
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Essential: GCSE grade A to C in English and Maths (or equivalent)
Knowledge
* Essential: Excellent computer skills
Skills and Aptitudes
* Essential: Excellent oral and written communication skills
* Essential: Excellent telephone manner
* Essential: Ability to prioritise and manage own workload
* Essential: Friendly, helpful and can do approach
* Essential: Ability to carry out work accurately to deadlines
* Essential: Close attention to detail
* Essential: Excellent organisational skills
* Essential: Ability to work on own initiative
* Essential: Able to work under pressure
* Essential: Able to maintain a high level of confidentiality
Other Requirements
* Willingness to undertake further training
Personal Circumstances
* Positive
* Confident
* Well organised
* Good team player
* Flexible
* Ability to build rapport and effective relationships at all levels
* Demonstrate initiative
* Ability to maintain workload in a busy and demanding environment
Disclosures
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a disclosure to be submitted to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details: Cumbria Health, Waterloo House Surgery, Millom Community Hospital, Lapstone Road, Millom, Cumbria LA18 4BY. Website: https://cumbriahealth.co.uk/
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