Medicines Manager - Millom

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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We encourage you to apply as early as possible as this job may close earlier than the advertised closing date once enough applications have been received

Please note that we are unable to offer an Employer Sponsored Visa for this role.

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 bothpatients and clinicians by putting into place processes that minimize the chance oferror, reduce medicine wastage, and improve the quality and accuracy of thepractice repeat prescriptions

All staff are expected to work to Cumbria Health Values:

• Clinically focused - Everything every one of us does is for the patient
• Responsive - We listen, and we respond quickly in a patient focussed way
• One Team - We work together to provide a high-quality service which isorganised and consistent, and in partnership with both the local Acute andCommunity Trusts
• High Standards - We provide skilled professionals working to the higheststandards who are passionate about improving patient care
• Growth & Sustainability - With our strong roots we will continue to thriveand grow
• 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.

Job responsibilities

This list of duties and responsibilities, which follows, represents the broad range of tasks which may be required to be undertaken either routinely or periodically. This list is not exhaustive and the role may include additional duties which are not listed here:-

• Collect Monthly data to monitor improvements in line with core medicinemanagement objectives
• Attend and disseminate within the practice learning and actions from themonthly medicine meetings, relevant courses and training events
• Weekly co-ordinate a cohort of patients who need their medication orderingin a structured manner to ensure safer compliance and to restrict them overordering their medications. Keep all clinicians up to date with any changesin the cohorts medication and any anomalies
• Co-ordinate and keep up to date the High-Risk Drug Monitoring registermonthly recalling all patients for their regular bloods to ensure safemanagement of care and maximum recovery of payment for the serviceprovided.
• Generate the prescriptions for all DDS packs for the local pharmacies.
• Supporting quality improvement measures and contributing to the Qualityand Outcomes Framework and Local Enhanced Services
• Managing medication optimisation, working closing with the clinical lead,practice pharmacists and all prescribers, to be defaulting to cost-effectivealternatives to save the NHS money
• Working closely with the other Cumbria Health practices MedicinesManagement Teams
• Assist the MOP to manage the safety alerts into the practice, maintain anelectronic version and ensuring that these are actioned with GPs for thesafety of patients.
• Build expertise to be able to optimise the benefits from supporting digitalsystems, eg Eclipse
• Promote better use of medicines by developing and improving patientinformation
• Work alongside the prescription clerk to address patient concerns andqueries and provide medicine management advice
• Apply judgement in assessing medicine management problems and queriesto determine the best course of action
• Monitoring usage of certain prescriptions and working with clinicians toimprove efficacy and safety (e.g. opiate prescribing)
• Facilitate Medicine Management team meetings within the practiceensuring all delegates attend
• Organise and submit monthly the prescription claim forms that are sent toNHSBSA (formerly Prescription Pricing Authority) for remuneration
• Assist the MOP with the collation and interpretation of results from the PMMscheme and assist in the preparation of reports on the progress to thepractice
• Help the practice in the implementation of any drug formularies andtreatment guidelines
• Working with the clinical team to maintain a record of all drugs stored withinthe practice and ensure only drugs within Cumbria Healths agreedrationale are ordered and stocked
• Line Management of the practices Prescription Clerk
• Other reasonable administration and medicines management tasks notcovered above

Person Specification Qualifications

• GCSE grade A to C in English and Maths (or equivalent)
• ECDL or equivalent
• NVQ Business Administration

Knowledge

• Previous experience working within the NHS.
• Previous experience in a similar role.
• Knowledge of prescribing processes

Skills and Aptitudes

• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Excellent telephone manner
• Ability to prioritise & manage own workload
• Friendly, helpful and can do approach
• Ability to carry out work accurately to specified deadlines
• Excellent organisational skills
• Ability to work on own initiative
• Able to work under pressure
• Able to maintain a high level of confidentiality
• Experience of introducing cost effective change

Other Requirements

• Willingness to undertake further training
• Full Clean Driving Licence and access to a vehicle

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 sometimes busy and demanding environment

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 name

Cumbria Health

Address

Waterloo House Surgery, Millom Community Hospital

£28,419 a yearFTE - Pro-rata to 30 hours

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

B0554-25-0099

Job locations

Waterloo House Surgery, Millom Community Hospital