Locations: Victoria Island & Apapa
Salary: 220k
Industry: Pharmacy
Workplace Type: On Site
Job description:
Community pharmacists are well-respected professionals within their local community who use their expert knowledge of medicines to help patients get the best possible care and outcomes from their medicines.
As a community pharmacist, you’ll be responsible for dispensing prescription and over-the-counter medicines that help people to maintain and improve their lives, in a cost-effective way. You will be responsible for constantly monitoring the quality, safety, and use of medicines, which requires a high level of interaction with patients, providing advice and information about the use of medicines and medical appliances.
As a community pharmacist, you will work alongside pharmacy technicians and pharmacy support staff, such as pharmacy assistants to deliver the pharmacy service. Each person is a high valued member of the pharmacy team. Your location of work will typically be a high street pharmacy, part of a chain or an independent, or you might work in a doctor’s practice or health center.
Key responsibilities: As a community pharmacist, you’ll be responsible for:
• Dispensing of prescription and over-the-counter medicines to the public, reviewing prescriptions from doctors to ensure accuracy and suitability for the patient, including the dosage, ingredients required, and correctly and safely labelled.
• Supervise the preparation of any medicines when not supplied ready-made by manufacturers.
• Maintaining accurate pharmacy records, patient profiles, charge system files, and inventories, maintaining a register of controlled drugs for legal and stock control purposes.
• Liaising with doctors and other healthcare professionals to monitor, review and evaluate the effectiveness of medications.
• Advising the public on medicines, side-effects of medicines and the treatment of minor ailments.
• Providing advice on specialist health care issues, such as vaccinations, blood pressure, smoking cessation, cholesterol monitoring and diabetes.
• Screening, managing, supervising, educating and training pharmacy support staff.
• Management of pharmacy finances and medicines budgets.
• Ordering and purchasing pharmaceutical supplies, medical supplies, or drugs.
• Maintaining stock and storing and handling it correctly.
Working Schedule:
• Mondays; Morning shift: 8am – 4pm & Afternoon shift: 2pm – 9pm.
• Tuesday-Friday. Alternate days: 8am – 9pm.
• Alternate weekends: 8-5pm.
Resumption: IMMEDIATELY.
Qualified candidates should send their detailed CVs to placerstalent@gmail.com, using the job title as subject of the mail.