Pharmacists/Pharmacy Technicians at AIDS Healthcare Foundation

Job Summary

• Works to ensure implementation of pharmacy best practices, quality improvement of pharmacy services, rational drug use, and logistics management of anti-retroviral drugs and drugs for opportunistic infections in assigned clinics and outposts.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Answers questions and provides information to patients and providers on drug interactions, side effects, adverse drug reactions, dosage, and storage of pharmaceuticals.
• Counsels patients on medication adherence.
• Maintains established policies and procedures concerning quality assurance, security of controlled substances, and disposal of hazardous waste drugs.
• Manages appropriate data collection, such as client name, prescribed medication and cost, to maintain pharmacy files, charge system, and drug inventory through mentorship of staff at clinics and outposts.
• Performs a monthly stock count of pharmaceuticals at the clinic store and outpost stores;
• Supervises the pre-dispensing of prescriptions for clients who are down referred to PHC sites;
• Ensure completion and submission of accurate and auditable monthly drug reports from clinic and outposts.
• Collaborate with the Pharmacist at the central office to ensure there is adequate stock of Pharmaceuticals at the sites.
• Update Pharmacy Services Database on a monthly basis for assigned AHF sites.
• Represent AHF Nigeria at State Drug Logistics Meetings organized by the Ministry of Health.
• Any other duties as may be assigned by the supervisor.

Education and/or Experiences

• Suitable candidate will be fresh graduate in Pharmacy or Pharmacy Technician Diploma of School of Health Technology with over 5 years of experience in HIV/AIDS Pharmacy Programs.
• The fresh pharmacy graduate must possess a Pharmacy Bachelor of Pharmacy Degree
• (B.Pharm.), with a valid license to practice as a Pharmacist.
• The Pharmacy technician must possess a Diploma from the School of Health Technology with a valid license to practice as Pharmacy Technician.
• Experience in logistics management of drugs, preferably in an NGO
• Computer proficiency an added advantage.