Pharmaceutical Technologist (Nairobi) at Ruaraka Uhai Neema Hospital

Responsibilities

• Receive written prescriptions or refill requests and verify that information is complete and accurate.
• Maintain proper storage and security conditions for drugs.
• Fill bottles with prescribed medications type and affix labels.
• File prescriptions that have been dispensed.
• Establish and maintain patient profiles, including lists of medications taken by individual patients.
• Order, label and store incoming supplies, verify quantities against invoices and inform supervisors of stock needs and shortages.
• Mix pharmaceutical preparations according to written prescriptions.
• Compute charges for medication and equipment dispensed to hospital patients and enter data in computer.
• Dispense medications and pharmaceutical supplies to patients, nursing stations and other departments.
• Providing information to supervisors, co-workers and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail or in person.
• 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level; anticipating needed medications and supplies; placing and expediting orders; verifying receipt; removing outdated drugs.
• Using relevant information and individual judgement to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations or standards.
• Observes professional ethics for the benefit of the law, the patient, the relatives of the patient and colleagues.

Qualifications

• Diploma in Pharmacy from a reputable institution.
• 2-3 years’ experience
• Should be registered by the Pharmacy and Poisons Board