Prescribing Administrator in Accrington

Looking for a rewarding career where you can use your passion and skills to help others? Change Grow Live are a charity dedicated to the belief that we can make a difference to our Service Users lives, offering support and respect in a safe environment, treating each user as an individual and working with them to find the right treatment and care options.

Our core values are ‘Be open, be compassionate and be bold’ and our team members apply these daily to achieve our mission of helping people change the direction of their lives, grow as individuals, and live life to its full potential. We’re looking for a passionate and committed Prescribing Administrator with a particular interest in working with people where support for alcohol and/or drug use has been identified as a need. This post is to work as part of our Lancashire services.

Location: Accrington

Hours: Full Time, 37.5 per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Responsibilities

About the role:

• To support the service in processing and batch printing of all FP10 Prescriptions for posting as per service protocol.
• Liaising with all pharmacy stakeholders and making sure the service operates within contractual requirements and enables timely and accurate issuing of all Prescriptions to our service users.
• Responsible for maintaining and updating local and central databases and provide timely and accurate data and information for all external and internal stakeholders.
• Be expected to record data and information in order that the service operates within contractual, administrative, financial requirements and CQC clinical standards.
• To support the rest of the administrative team with management, ordering of supplies, invoicing, telephone, building management, support of telecommunication and IT systems to ensure that substance users consistently receive high quality services.
• Work flexibly within an agreed number of hours to maintain the most appropriate level of service provision.
• To provide minute taking for a number of meetings in the service including multi-disciplinary meeting, accurate minute taking, action logging in different system and excellent attention to detail is a must.
• To provide advice, information and reports clearly and concisely via the most appropriate channel (e.g. verbally, in writing, telephone, e-mail etc.) whilst being sensitive to the needs of the audience (e.g. service user, professional etc.).
• Maintain accurate and comprehensive records / data collection on clients, as required by CGL Management, NDTMS, PHE performance frameworks and reporting requirements.

About you:

• Knowledge and experience of general office procedure and administrative duties.
• Experience of minute taking.
• IT literacy including proficiency in data collection systems.
• Expertise in working with Word, Excel, and other IT packages.
• Experience of maintaining simple databases and other data management systems.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• Sound numerical skills.
• Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Experience of developing data processes and systems.

What we will give to you:

• 25 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays. Additionally, you'll receive one extra day of annual leave for each year of service during your first five years, therefore you will enjoy 30 days of leave after five years with us.
• Paid ‘Wellness’ hour each week along with a ‘Wellness’ hub and Employee Assist Programme.
• Contributory pension scheme.
• A great selection of benefits including discounts for shopping, cinema, holidays, etc.
• Eligible for Blue Light Discounts.
• A friendly and supportive team.
• Training, career development & progression opportunities.
• Participation in our Refer-a-Friend scheme.

Please ensure that when completing your application form and supporting statement, you reflect on the details outlined in the job description. This will help us understand how your skills and experiences align with the requirements of the role.

Direct applications only; we will not be engaging agencies for this vacancy. Please note: This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must already have the right to work in the UK at the time of application. For applicants with time-limited visas, unfortunately, we are unable to support new visa applications or extensions.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Salary Range (pro rata if part time): CGL points 20 to 21 (£26,091.00 - £26,502.53)

Interview Date: 10/6/2026

Closing Date: 6/6/2026

If you have any questions on this opportunity that you would like to talk through please contact us using the below details:

Jennifer Hunt | jen.hunt@cgl.org.uk | 07776660925

This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Scheme check at a basic level.