Pharmacist at Kajiado County

Pharmacist Job Responsibilities

• Dispensing of medicines and counseling patients on medicine use
• Medicines stock control; filling medicines registers and inventory management tools
• Compounding of extemporaneous preparations
• Medicines supply chain activities; assisting in the collection of pharmaceutical related data/information.
• Supervising the work of pharmacist interns, Pharmaceutical technologists and students.
• Writing guidelines or standard operating procedures for drug use within the hospital and implementing hospital regulations
• Serves as a member of policy-making committees, including those concerned with drug selection, the use of antibiotics, and hospital infections (Drug and Therapeutics Committee) and thereby influences the preparation and composition of an essential-drug list or formulary
• Educating other health professionals about the rational use of drugs;

Requirements for the Pharmacist Job

• Kenyan citizen
• Must have a Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmacy from a recognized institution
• Registered with the Pharmacy & Poisons Board (PPB) of Kenya
• Certificate in Computer applications from a recognized institution
• At least two (2) years’ experience after registration.
• Must satisfy requirements of Chapter six of the constitution
• Able to exhibit a high level of confidentiality
• Must have good inter-personal and communication skills
• Must satisfy the requirements of chapter six of the Constitution of Kenya 2010.