Pharmacist at Lily Hospitals Limited

Employee’s Duties & Responsibilities
Clinical Responsibilities:

• Assessing/ verifying physicians’ prescriptions.
• Ensuring their legality and appropriateness.
• Labeling and packaging appropriately prescribed medications for each patient.
• Counseling, dispensing, and documentation of medication for individual prescriptions to all patients, in line with Standard Operating Procedures, ensuring that standards of quality, accuracy, and timeliness are met.
• Coordinate the distribution, delivery, and pick up of pharmaceutical products.

Administrative Duties:

• Monitor and maintain full control over the delivery, stocking, and labeling of medications and other product supplies. Organize the pharmacy in an efficient ensure smooth and easy identification of products.
• Perform general clerical duties, such as answering calls, receiving prescriptions, processing medication dispensing, and entering prescriptions into the pharmacy tracking system according to departmental procedures.
• Ensure all drug transactions are entered accurately into the pharmacy’s database to minimize stock discrepancies and drug shortage situations.
• Ensure adequate stock control.
• Perform other duties as assigned to you by the lead pharmacist and supervise the pharmacy technician.

Inventory:

• Maintain records and stocks of medications and supplies; prepare requisitions to reorder pharmaceutical items as required to minimize stock-outs and wastages.
• Sorts and stocks incoming pharmaceutical products.
• Ensure accuracy in the receipt of all goods, including recording all receipts, issues, batch numbers, expiry dates, and other relevant information into the pharmacy’s database, ensuring that all transactions are recorded promptly and accurately to maintain accurate departmental stock.

Requirements

• Valid practicing license
• At least 2 years of relevant experience (hospital experience is an advantage)
• Good communication and organizational skills
• Strong attention to detail and integrity.