DROGA PHARMA PLC

Specialist Pharmacist

Category: Pharmaceutical
Location: Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa
Career Level: Managerial Level (Manager, Supervisor, Director)
Employment Type: Full time
Salary: Attractive

Job Description

Role and Responsibility

  • Ensure the spoke primary role of specialty care pharmacy service provision.
  • Act as a care coordinator.
  • Assimilate quality assurance as part of pharmaceutical practice. Assure compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements for pharmacy operations.
  • Ensure the implementation of the principles of rational drug use, good storage practice, and good dispensing practice of medicines.
  • Apply policies and procedures for all personnel operating in pharmacy in accordance with current law and best practice.
  • Attend normal working hour of the pharmacy, at the professional services area of the practice.
  • Overseas all professional activities carried out in the medicine retail outlet.
  • Keep that every key, key card or other device, or the combination of any device, which allows access to controlled substances storage area when it is locked.
  • Review the patient personal details and medication history
  • Update and maintain the medication history during the dispensing process for patients with chronic disease.
  • Contact the prescriber about a prescription or a patient’s therapy when necessary.
  • Provide appropriate information to the patient to enable safe and effective use of the medicines and therapeutic device supplied.
  • Minimize the incidence of a dispensing error occurring
  • Dispense medicines with legible and unambiguous labels.
  • Confirm the legality; identify the patient’s condition, legibility, completeness, correctness, therapeutic aspects and appropriateness of the prescription paper.
  • Report any suspected adverse drug reactions (ADRs), or suspected fake and substandard medicines to the technical manager or appropriate organ.
  • Order and stock prescription and over-the-counter medications.
  • Comply with standards and any other requirement specified by the regulatory bodies/appropriate organs.
  • To work ethically and with full professional competence.

Job Requirements

Requirement

  • BPharm in Clinical Oriented Pharmacy plus MSc in Clinical Pharmacy/ Pharmacy Practice from a recognized and qualified higher education institution
  • 5 years and above experience under BPharm and 2 years and more experience with a specialty in health care.
  • Demonstrate experience in applying Clinical Pharmacy services
  • Demonstrate experience working with the different healthcare team

Required skill

  • Management and leadership skills
  • Research and analytics skills
  • Interpersonal and negotiation skills
  • Communication, presentation, and reporting skills
  • Knowledge in use of Microsoft office suite and Droga Computer software
  • Ability to work in teams and in multicultural setting
  • Proficiency in one or more of country working languages (Amharic, Oromiffa, Tigregna, Somaligna etc)

How to Apply

Interested and qualified applicants can apply and only short-listed candidates will be communicated.

  • Required Number: 10
  • Deadline Mar 16, 2023

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