Male Pharmacy Technician at Lily Hospitals Limited

Location: Warri, Delta
Job Category: Junior level

Job Summary

• The Pharmacy technician assists the pharmacist in providing medication and other health care products to patients.

Key Result Areas (KRA)

• Organize medications for pharmacist to dispense by reading medication orders and prescriptions, preparing labels, calculating quantities, assembling intravenous solutions and other pharmaceutical therapies.
• Receive written prescription or refill request from patients and verify that information is complete and accurate.
• Deliver appropriate medications and pharmaceutical supplies in the right quantity to patients, nursing stations or surgery.
• Verify prescription information and dosage.
• Prepare the prescription labels, select the type of prescription container, and affix the prescription and auxiliary labels to the container.
• Maintain pharmacy inventory by checking pharmaceutical stock to determine inventory level, ensuring First-in-First-Out (FIFO) system is strictly adhered to, anticipating needed medications and supplies, placing and expediting orders, verifying receipt and removing outdated drugs.
• Order, label, and count stock of medications, chemicals, and supplies, and enter inventory data into computer.
• Receive and store incoming supplies, verify quantities against invoices, and inform pharmacist of stock needs and shortages.

The Person

• Minimum academic qualification of Pharmacy Technician Certificate.
• 2 to 3 years relevant work experience in the Health sector.
• Membership of relevant professional bodies such as the Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN)
• Knowledge of the Microsoft office package.
• Outstanding communication (oral and written), interpersonal and people management skills.

Remuneration
Salary in line with industry standard