Pharmacy Technologist Wanted: Hillview Medical Centre – August 2017

PHARMACY TECHNOLOGIST

QUALIFICATION

• Diploma in Pharmacy and two years of working experience

JOB DESCRIPTION

• • Receive and dispatch drugs to designated locations.
  • Undertake Physical counts at the prescribed schedules.
  • Truck expiry dates of drugs and medical supplies.
  • Respond to drug orders and attend to them promptly and timely.
  • Price and file prescriptions that have been filled. Manage supplies for chronic medication and giving notice to patients when they are supposed to come for a refill.
  • Receive written prescription, requisitions, patients charts or refill requests and verify that information is complete and accurate and affix labels were necessary.
  • Assist patients by answering simple questions, locating items or referring them to the pharmacist for medication information.
  • Help maintain equipment and work areas, and sterilize glassware according to prescribed methods.

• Maintain proper storage and security conditions for drugs and allied substances as per ideal storage protocol.
• Establish and maintain patient profiles, including lists of medications taken by individual patients.
• Order, label, and count stock of medications, chemicals, and supplies, and enter inventory data into the computer.
• Receive and store incoming supplies, verify quantities against invoices, and inform supervisors of stock needs and shortages.
• Transfer medication from vials to the appropriate number of sterile, disposable syringes, using aseptic techniques.
• Mix pharmaceutical preparations according to written prescriptions.
• Deliver medications and pharmaceutical supplies to patients, nursing stations or surgery.
• Administer ART clinic