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level; anticipating needed medications and supplies; placing and expediting orders; verifying receipt; removing outdated drugs & preparing ageing reports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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