Pharmacist at EHA Clinics

Mission Statement

• We are on a mission to deliver quality health care that is accessible, effective, and affordable.
• By leveraging technology and an exceptional team, we provide a superior experience, improved outcomes, and reduced pricing for our individual, family, and business members.

Core Values

• Customer Experience: We deliver ever-increasing value and convenience to our customers and ensure they are treated with the utmost respect and service regardless of income or social status.                                             
• Quality & Safety: We strive to improve the health of our customers, their families, and our community. We will continuously improve our quality to provide the best available healthcare services according to the best available science.  
• We ensure our staff are trained to perform their duties safely and reduce the spread of infections. Our facilities and processes are designed to ensure maximum safety for our customers.
• Our People: We invest in the well-being, training, and development of our staff.
• Financial Stewardship: We work to reduce waste and maximize value to our customers, investors, and partners.
• Impact: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages: improved access, affordability, and quality of life.

Our services:

• Medical Services
• Research and Informatics
• Pharmacy
• Laboratory & Diagnostics
• Community Health (REACH Program)
• Telehealth and Telemedicine

Mission Objectives:

• The pharmacy unit provides medical support services in pharmacotherapy, critical to achieving the organization’s mission through supplying quality medications, rational medicine usage, and optimizing patients’ treatment outcomes through appropriate counseling.

Duties and Responsibilities   
Purpose:

• Provide effective medication use and become the people’s trusted ally against health issues that way, you can deliver maximum value to both the pharmacy and society. Review and develop the clinic's pharmacy policies and regulations.
• Participate in voluntary community health activities to promote, maintain and restore health and prevent diseases. Manage clinical risk.
• Provide professional advice on cosmetics or para-pharmaceuticals.

Engagement:

• Document patient and family education. Develop and implement the teaching plan utilizing the patient education manual. Think critically in adapting to change, judging situations, and taking appropriate decisions.
• Adhere to EHA Clinics Code of Conduct as well as ethical standards of the field.
• Interpret symptoms so that the patient can either be given immediate treatment for a trifling condition or be referred to the doctor. Protect patients and technicians by adhering to infection-control protocols. Provide emotional support and measures to alleviate fear and anxiety.
• Provide pharmaceutical care services which may include, but are not limited to, patient needs assessment, age and disease-specific drug therapy and patient education, care adjustments based on patient response, and clinical interventions to identify, minimize, and avoid adverse drug reactions.

Delivery:

• Prepare and dispense medications to patients on physician’s order. Organize the pharmacy in an efficient manner to make the identification of products easier and faster.
• Maintain an up-to-date inventory of the clinic drug formulary. Records of all drugs, doses, and prices on the automated inventory of the clinic. Review, analyze and respond to different situations encountered daily.
• Review and execute physician’s prescriptions checking their appropriateness and legality. Maintain full control over delivering, stocking, and labeling medicine and other products. Develop effective medication plans to minimize the risk of adverse side effects.
• Maintain pharmacological knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; and participating in professional societies.

Targeted Specialized Knowledge 

• Minimum qualification of Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy/M.Pharm/PharmD Minimum of two (2) years post NYSC progressive experience in Pharmacy within the private and public sector. Experience working with public health and health systems is an advantage.
• Candidates must be a registered member of Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN) with an up-to-date practicing license

​Key Areas of Note: 

• Keep up to date with relevant medical research, technology, and evidence-based medical practice by attending continuing education courses and professional meetings, reading journals, etc.
• Research unusual symptoms and treatment options, through consultation with physicians and other medical specialists.

Key Skills and Attributes:

• Hold Computer literacy
• Excellent Communication and Customer Service
• Caring, Compassionate, Dedicated and Professional
• Working Under Pressure
• Humane, Empathetic and Supportive Bedside Manner
• Leadership and Teamwork
• Problem solving and Initiative
• Time Management and Organization
• Attention to Detail

Key Areas of Note:

• Keep up to date with relevant medical research, technology, and evidence-based medical practice by attending continuing education courses and professional meetings, reading journals, etc.
• Research unusual symptoms and treatment options, through consultation with physicians and other medical specialists.

Key Skills and Attributes:

• Hold Computer literacy
• Excellent Communication and Customer Service
• Caring, Compassionate, Dedicated and Professional
• Working Under Pressure
• Humane, Empathetic and Supportive Bedside Manner
• Leadership and Teamwork
• Problem solving and Initiative
• Time Management and Organization
• Attention to Details.

Benefits 

• Health Coverage Benefit 
• Performance Bonus
• 13th Month
• Annual Skills Assessment.