Pharmaceutical Technologist at Nairobi Adventist Hospital

Job purpose

Duties and responsibilities involve compounding and dispensing medicine in a safe and professional way and working closely with the medical and nursing staff to ensure patients get the optimum care.

Duties and responsibilities

• Retrieving prescription orders
• Medicine compounding
• Maintaining patient profiles
• Answering phones
• Being aware of the latest medicines and their availability  Receive prescriptions from doctors.
• Prepare prescriptions for patients.
• Verify insurance and prescription information.
• Helps health care providers and patients by greeting them in person and by phone; answering questions and requests; referring inquiries to the doctor
• Maintains pharmacy inventory by checking pharmaceutical stock to determine inventory level; anticipating needed medications and supplies; placing and expediting orders; verifying receipt; removing outdated drugs.
• Maintains a safe and clean pharmacy by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
• Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols.
• Organizes medications to dispense by reading medication orders and prescriptions; preparing labels; calculating quantities; assembling intravenous solutions and other pharmaceutical therapies.
• Maintains records by recording and filing physicians’ orders and prescriptions.
• Ensures medication availability by delivering medications to patients and departments.
• Prepares reports by collecting and summarizing information.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
• Records and monitors temperature
• Reporting adverse drug reactions and poor-quality drugs to the pharmacy and poisons board.

Qualifications

• Holder of diploma in pharmacy from Kenya Medical Training College/any recognized medical institution
• Duly registered by pharmacy and poisons board current practice License
• Supply Management skills, Organization, Integrity, Reporting Skills, Attention to Detail, Dependability, Creating a Safe effective Environment, Quality Focus
• Required to maintain utmost level of accuracy while processing prescriptions.
• Expected to demonstrate ethical behaviour with emphasis on confidentiality, realization of professional liability and importance of following a protocol.
• Empathetic and compassionate listener as a member of a healthcare team, who is able to communicate with tact and diplomacy, should be friendly and interactive with patients and other members of the team.
• While dealing with patients, co-workers, doctors and nurses, should have the emotional maturity to solve conflicts.
• Three years working experience in a busy dispensing unit