• Company: Hillview Medical Centre
• Location: Kitwe, Copperbelt Province, Zambia
• State: Kitwe
• Job type: Full-Time
• Job Category: Healthcare/Medical Jobs in Zambia

PHARMACIST

• Ensure policies and procedures, and local regulations relating to pharmacovigilance, prescribing, dispensing, recall, expiration and disposal of medications, and clinical consumables are adhered to at all times.
• Ensure you assess the identity, strength, and purity of medications.
• Provide information and advice regarding drug interactions, side effects, dosage, and proper medication storage.
• Engage in therapeutic drug monitoring, dose calculation, and adjustment to fit patient needs.
• Ensure that patient prescriptions are accurate, legible and content appropriate.
• Manage ARVs logistics and information systems, dispense ARVs and offer adherence counseling to patients on HAART.
• Provide patient education on the proper use of devices such as epinephrine injection pens, asthma ventilators, diabetes blood sugar monitor etc.
• Ensure that all expiry dates for medications and disposables are checked monthly and that drugs are used on a first in first out (FIFO) principle.
• Plan, implement and maintain procedures for mixing, packaging, and labeling pharmaceuticals, according to policy and legal requirements, to ensure quality, security, and proper disposal.
• Compound and dispense medications as prescribed by doctors and dentists, by calculating, weighing, measuring, and mixing ingredients, or oversee these activities being performed.
• Ensure that all expired and disposables are disposed off according to the standard operating procedure.
• Maintain storage and cold chain of all refrigerated medications.
• Order and manage of Controlled drugs/Opioids/Narcotics according to the Dangerous Drugs Act.
• Maintain a register of all dangerous drugs and conduct a two-person level count every day.
• Pharmacy storage areas are maintained at an appropriate temperature and are always clean and properly organized.
• Ensure that universal infection control precautions are maintained throughout the pharmacy and stock room.
• Publish educational information for other doctors, nurses and/or patients.
• Assist with appropriate pharmaceutical treatments/ medications for patients requiring emergency medical evacuation services.
• Ensure compliance for other duties and responsibilities as may be required from the Medical Doctor from time to time within your scope of practice.

QUALIFICATION

• Grade 12 Certificate
• Minimum bachelor Degree in Pharmacy.
• Two years’ work experience
• Post Graduate qualifications an advantage.
• Must be registered and licensed with the Health Professions Council of Zambia (HPCZ)

How to Apply

Send your CV and certificates to: [email protected] or [email protected]