Pharmacist at Hec Recruit – 2 Openings

Job Title: Pharmacist

Activities

• Community pharmacists are well-respected professionals within their local community who use their expert knowledge of medicines to help patients get the best possible care and outcomes from their medicines.
• As a community pharmacist, you’ll be responsible for dispensing prescription and over-the-counter medicines that help people to maintain and improve their lives, in a cost-effective way.
• You will be responsible for constantly monitoring the quality, safety, and use of medicines, which requires a high level of interaction with patients, providing advice and information about the use of medicines and medical appliances.
• As a community pharmacist, you will work alongside pharmacy technicians and pharmacy support staff, such as pharmacy assistants to deliver the pharmacy service.
• Each person is a high valued member of the pharmacy team. Your location of work will typically be a high street pharmacy, part of a chain or an independent, or you might work in a doctor’s practice or health centre.

Candidate Profile

• Dispensing of prescription and over-the-counter medicines to the public
• Reviewing prescriptions from doctors to ensure accuracy and suitability for the patient, including the dosage, ingredients required, and correctly and safely labelled.
• Supervise the preparation of any medicines when not supplied ready-made by manufacturers
• Maintaining accurate pharmacy records, patient profiles, charge system files, and inventories
• Maintaining a register of controlled drugs for legal and stock control purposes
• Liaising with doctors and other healthcare professionals to monitor, review and evaluate the effectiveness of medications
• Advising the public on medicines, side-effects of medicines and the treatment of minor ailments
• Providing advice on specialist health care issues, such as vaccinations, blood pressure, smoking cessation, cholesterol monitoring and diabetes
• Screening
• Managing, supervising, educating and training pharmacy support staff
• Management of pharmacy finances and medicines budgets
• Ordering and purchasing pharmaceutical supplies, medical supplies, or drugs
• Maintaining stock and storing and handling it correctly

Application Instructions:

The application deadline is 31st October 2024. Therefore qualified and interested candidates send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.

Note: Resumption is immediately.