Pharmaceutical Technologist
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Company Details
Name:M.P. Shah Hospital
Industry:
Hospital & Health Care
Website:
https://mpshahhosp.org/
Description:
Located in Parklands Area in Nairobi, M.P. Shah Hospital is a modern 210-bed facility which is home to highly skilled and experienced specialists and professional medical staff. For generations, we have been ranked among the best private hospitals in Kenya because of our excellent standards and the …
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Job Details
Job Type:
Full Time
Workplace Type:
On-site
Qualification:
Diploma
Job Experience:
Mandatory
Job Location:
Nairobi County, Kenya
Closing Date:
Undisclosed
Salary:
KES Unspecified / month
Other Pay:
Benefits
Job Category:
Pharmaceutical
Job Description
Job Title: Pharmacy Technologist
Job Purpose
The overall purpose of this job is to manage inventory, dispense & service prescriptions accurately and manage sales revenue effectively.
Responsibilities and Accountabilities
- Review and dispense prescription as per treatment sheet of medications by compounding, packaging and labelling pharmaceuticals to patients
- Maintains pharmacy inventory by checking pharmaceutical stock to determine inventory level; anticipating needed medications and supplies; placing and expediting orders; verifying receipt; removing outdated drugs & preparing ageing reports
- Organises medications for dispensing by reading medication orders and prescriptions; preparing labels; calculating quantities; assembling intravenous solutions and other pharmaceutical therapies.
- Prepare reports by collecting and summarising information and sending them on time as required in the standard operating procedure
- Generates and captures revenue by calculating, recording, and issuing charges as well as issuing cash sale receipts
- Check the expiry dates of medicines, making sure that the short expiry drugs are tagged and returned back to the store in compliance with the set regulations
Key Performance Indicators
- Overall pharmacy turn-around time
- Discharge turn around time
- Patient satisfaction score
- Number of incident reports by pharmacy.
- Audit score on pharmacy charging and billing.
- Audit score on medication quality (storage, labelling etc).
- Availability of pharmaceutical stocks
- Expiry value
- Variance level
Minimum Qualifications, Regulatory & Legal Requirements
- Diploma in Pharmacy or Pharmaceutical technologist from a recognized institution
- Must have valid membership and hold a valid practicing license in the Registered with the Pharmacy and Poisons Board of Kenya.
- Minimum of 3 years working experience
- Continuous Professional Development
- CPD Points
Competencies and Attributes
- Knowledge to pharmacology, pharmaceutics services
- Leading and managing change
- Innovation
- Decision making
- Ability to maintain build and maintain partnership and alliances
- Research and Development
- Data Analysis and reporting
- Excellent communication skills
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