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level; anticipating needed medications and supplies; placing and expediting orders; verifying receipt; removing outdated drugs & preparing ageing reports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

• 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

• 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

• 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