Responsibilities
- Reviewing and executing doctor’s prescriptions checking their appropriateness and legality
- Organizing the pharmacy in an efficient manner to make the identification of products easier and faster
- Maintaining full control over delivering, stocking, and labeling medication.
- Proper inventory management.
- Prepare medicine when appropriate using the correct dosages and material for each individual patient
- Keep records of patient history and of all activities regarding refilling medication
- Keep abreast of advancements in medicine by attending conferences and seminars and collaborating with other healthcare professionals
- Comply with all applicable legal rules, regulations, and procedures
- Ensure that treatments are compatible with the medication issued
- Check dosage and ensure that medicines are correctly and safely supplied and labeled
- Supervise the preparation of any medicines (not all are supplied ready made-up by the manufacturer)
- Keep a register of controlled drugs for legal and stock control purposes
- Liaise with doctors about prescriptions
- Sell over-the-counter medicines
- Advise patients of any adverse side effects of medicines or potential interactions with other medicines/treatments
- Prepare dosette boxes, usually for the elderly, but also for those with memory/learning difficulties or those who have several combinations of tablets to take, where tablets are placed in compartments for specified days of the week
- Undertake Medicine Use Reviews (MUR), an advanced service to help patients understand how their medicines work and why they have to take them
- Arrange the delivery of prescription medicines to patients
- Manage, supervise and train pharmacy support staff
- Manage finance and budgets for the pharmacy
- Sourcing
- Invoicing
- Claims management
- keep up to date with current pharmacy practice, new drugs, and their
Qualifications
- Proven experience as a pharmaceutical technologist.
- Thorough understanding of dosage administration and measurement, chemical compounds, medical brands, etc.
- Outstanding knowledge of MS Office and Pharmacy information systems
- Good organization skills
- Excellent communication skills with a customer-oriented approach
- Integrity and compassion
- Degree/ Diploma in Pharmacy/Pharmacology
- Valid license to practice the profession
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