JOB TITLE: Pharmacist
JOB LOCATION: Abuja (FCT)
JOB DETAILS:
Key Performance Areas
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- Review prescriptions from Medical Officers to ensure accuracy, to ascertain the needed ingredients, and to evaluate their suitability for the patients.
- Prepares medications by reviewing and interpreting Medical Officers’ orders and detecting therapeutic incompatibilities.
- Gives pharmacological information to multidisciplinary health care team, and monitoring patient drug therapies.
- Controls medications by monitoring drug therapies; advising interventions.
- Dispenses medications by compounding, packaging, and labeling pharmaceuticals.
- Provide information and advice about drugs, their side effects, correct dosage, and proper storage.
- Provides pharmacological information by answering questions and requests of health care professionals and counseling patients on drug therapies.
- Completes pharmacy operational requirements by organizing and directing workflow, verifying the preparation and labeling of pharmaceuticals, and verifying order entries, charges, and inspections.
- Keep records of drugs and medical supplies on Medicplus.
- Plan, implement or maintain procedures for mixing, packaging or labeling pharmaceuticals, according to policy and legal requirements, to ensure quality, security and proper disposal.
- Work with other health care professionals to plan, monitor, and review/evaluate the quality or effectiveness of drugs.
- Order and purchase pharmaceutical supplies, medical supplies, or drugs.
- Assess the identity, strength or purity of medications.
- Advise customers on the selection of medication brands, medical equipment, or healthcare supplies.
- Analyze prescribing trends to monitor patient compliance and to prevent excessive usage or harmful interactions.
- Records patients’ history relating to medicinal use on Medicplus.
- Ensures the safe and secure storage of all medicines and hospital supplies.
- Maintains records for controlled substances and removes outdated and damaged drugs from the pharmacy inventory.
- Complies with all NAFDAC legislations
- Stay updated on pharmacy regulations, treatments and development.
- Supervises the work results of support personnel.
- Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
- Maintains current registration, studies existing and new legislation anticipates legislation and advises management on needed actions.
- Protects patients and technicians by adhering to infection-control protocols.
- Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
- Perform any other task that may be assigned.
Requirements
- Interested candidates should possess relevant qualifications and work experience.
HOW TO APPLY
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and Cover Letter to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email.
Deadline: November 26, 2021
Job Features
Job Category | Medical/ Healthcare / Pharmaceutical |