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
• Being aware of the latest medicines and their availability
• Receive prescriptions from doctors.
• Prepare prescriptions for patients.
• Verify insurance and prescription information.
• 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level; anticipating needed medications and supplies; placing and expediting orders; verifying receipt; removing outdated drugs.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.
•  Reporting adverse drug reactions and poor quality drugs to the pharmacy and poisons board

Minimum Qualifications & Requirements

• Holder of diploma in pharmacy from Kenya Medical Training College/any recognized medical institution
• Duly registered by pharmacy and poisons board
• Current practice License
• 3 years working experience in a busy dispensing unit