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  • Posted: Jan 23, 2023
    Deadline: Jan 31, 2023
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    Nairobi Adventist Hospital (NAH) is a Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) church-established and owned Hospital. It is a tertiary (level 4) hospital located in Nyari west area in Westlands sub-county, Nairobi County, Kenya.
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    Pharmaceutical Technologist

    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level; anticipating needed medications and supplies; placing and expediting orders; verifying receipt; removing outdated drugs.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

    Method of Application

    Interested candidates are invited to send their Application Letter, CV, letter of reference from pastor/chaplain, and copies of certificates on or before Tuesday, 31st January, 2023 to careers@nah.or.keThese documents should be merged into one PDF documentFor details on job purpose and job description, kindly visit our website www.nah.or.ke/careers. Late applications will not be accepted and ONLY shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

    Addressed to: The Human Resource Manager,

                              Central Kenya Conference

                              P.O. Box 41352-00100

                              Nairobi

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