Practice Medicines Manager

Role description

Job summary

Practice Medicines Manager

This role supports the safe, effective, and wellorganised use of medicines within the practice. It combines medicines management with responsibility for the smooth and financially sustainable running of the dispensary. You will work closely with GPs, pharmacists, the dispensary team, and the Practice Manager.

Dispensary Business Lead

You will help ensure the dispensary runs smoothly, efficiently, and sustainably.

This role may be split into 2 different roles dependent on the applicant.

Main duties of the job

You will help make sure medicines are used safely, appropriately, and efficiently for patients and the practice.

Key tasks include

Acting as a main point of contact for medicines-related queries in a patient-friendly way

Supporting patients and clinicians to make informed treatment choices

Helping ensure medicines are used safely and effectively

Supporting quality improvement

Responding to queries from pharmacies, hospitals, and patients

Supporting shared care arrangements

Monitoring and safety

Collecting simple monthly data to track medicines management and identify improvements

Keeping an up-to-date register of patients on higher risk medicines and arranging regular blood tests

Managing medicine safety alerts

Monitoring the use of certain medicines and working with clinicians to improve safety

Improvement and teamwork

Taking part in audits and quality improvement cycles, sharing learning with the wider team

Attending medicines meetings and training, and sharing key learning within the practice

Helping the practice follow agreed medicine guidelines and formularies

Patient support and systems

Improving patient information about medicines

Supporting patients with questions or concerns about their medicines

Using digital systems to support medicines management and reporting

Keeping up to date with medicine changes and contacting patients where needed

About us

We are a welcoming, patient centred GP practice caring for a rural community of around 4,300 patients. As a proud training practice, we are committed to developing future GPs and clinicians, fostering a supportive learning environment and a culture of continuous improvement.

Our team is known for being friendly, supportive, and highly focused on delivering excellent patient care. We work collaboratively across clinical, administrative, and community roles to provide safe, compassionate, and high quality services.

We are rated CQC Outstanding, reflecting our dedication to innovation, quality, and the wellbeing of our patients and staff.

We also work as part of the Keswick and Solway Primary Care Network (PCN), enabling us to deliver enhanced services, share expertise, and provide wider support for our local communities.