Vacancies at M.P. Shah Hospital

Duties & Responsibilities: 

• Deliver direct patient care and clinical practice, including decentralized and service-based programs by identifying high-risk patients and implement interventions to improve quality and safety. 
• Identify prescriptions that might present risks to patients and resolve relevant issues before dispensing. 
• Provide pharmaceutical services across the hospital, ensuring proficiency in dispensing prescription medications as prescribed by physicians and other healthcare practitioners. 
• Participate in pharmacy operations and medication dispensing by working closely with the procurement department to facilitate the procurement, ordering, and dispensing of specialty medications. 
• Coordinate medication deliveries in collaboration with pharmacy managers, ensuring an organized workflow for all medication dispensing activities. This includes overseeing the timely delivery of medications throughout the hospital. 
• Coordinate the timely and efficient delivery of the correct medications to inpatient, discharge, outpatient, and satellite center patients, ensuring adherence to internal standards, acceptable timelines, and compliance with local regulations set by the Pharmacy and Poisons Board. 
• Facilitate experiential education and practice advancement by identifying, designing and implements improvements in the medication-use system to advance patient safety, maximize therapeutic outcomes, or control costs. 
• Promote patient awareness and understanding of their medication regimen by providing medication counseling to the patient to ensure accurate understanding of treatment purpose, duration, special instructions of use, and common adverse effects. 

Minimum Qualifications, Regulatory & Legal Requirements 

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Pharmacy from a recognized institution 
• Must hold a valid membership and practicing license registered with the Pharmacy and Poisons Board of Kenya. 
• Must have a minimum of 3 years working experience as a pharmacist. 

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Reporting to the Pharmacist, the overall purpose of this job is to manage inventory, dispense & service prescriptions accurately and manage sales revenue effectively. 

Duties & Responsibilities: 

• Review and dispense prescription as per treatment sheet of medications by compounding, packaging and labelling pharmaceuticals to patients 
• 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 & preparing ageing reports 
• Organize medications for dispensing by reading medication orders and prescriptions; preparing labels; calculating quantities; assembling intravenous solutions and other pharmaceutical therapies. 
• Prepare reports by collecting and summarizing information and sending them on time as required in the standard operating procedure 
• Generates and captures revenue by calculating, recording, and issuing charges as well as issuing cash sale receipts 
• Check the expiry dates of medicines, making sure that the short expiry drugs are tagged and returned back to the store in compliance with the set regulations 

Key Performance Indicators 

• Overall pharmacy turn-around time 
• Discharge turn-around time 
• Patient satisfaction score 
• Number of incident reports by pharmacy. 
• Audit score on pharmacy charging and billing.  
• Audit score on medication quality (storage, labelling etc). 
• Availability of pharmaceutical stocks 
• Expiry value of pharmaceutical stocks 

Qualifications, Regulatory & Legal Requirements 

• Diploma in Pharmacy or Pharmaceutical technologist from a recognized institution 
• Must have valid membership and hold a valid practicing license in the Registered with the Pharmacy and Poisons Board of Kenya. 
• Minimum of 3 years working experience