Pharmacist

Job Summary: Responsible for serving patients by preparing medications and giving pharmacological information to multidisciplinary to team and monitoring patient drug therapies.

FocusIndicators

Operations

• Completes pharmacy operational requirements by organizing and directing work flow, verifying order entries, charges, and inspections.
• Managing all pharmacy operations- drug formulary, inventory management, sale and foot fall of the pharmacy.
• Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures (SOPs), rules and regulations.
• Supervise the medicines supply chain and ensure pharmacy premises and systems are fit for purpose.
• Responsible for removing outdated, damaged drugs from pharmacy and raising indents at the time of shortage of stock.
• Performing regular stock audits and ensuring medicines are stored appropriately and securely.
• Accurately dispensing drugs to patients according to a doctor's prescription.
• Maintaining administrative records such as pharmacy files / patient profiles
• Maintain drug inventory levels by ordering necessary medications and supplies and verifying deliveries against purchase orders.

Business

• Manage invoices, organize documents, and keep records according to statutory requirements.
• Timely renewal of key licenses
• To generate monthly reports and submit to the unit and concerned departments.

Customer

• Provides pharmacological information by answering questions and requests of health care professionals; counseling patients on drug therapies.
• Checking prescriptions to ensure that there are no errors and that they are appropriate and safe for the patient.
• Procurement of the inventory from the valid approved sources.
• Assessments of quality of medicines before they are supplied to patients from pharmaceutical manufacturers.

People

• Develops hospital staff's in pharmacological knowledge by training interns, externs, residents, and health care professionals.
• Solves all the clinical issues of the healthcare team in terms of drugs.
• Liaising with other medical staff on problems patients may experience when taking their medicines
• Handing over of the bills/ documents to internal functions for internal filing.