Specialist Pharmacist – Droga Pharma PLC Vacancy Announcement

Role and Responsibility

• Ensure the spoke primary role of specialty care pharmacy service provision.

• Act as a care coordinator.

• Assimilate quality assurance as part of pharmaceutical practice. Assure compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements for pharmacy operations.

• Ensure the implementation of the principles of rational drug use, good storage practice, and good dispensing practice of medicines.

• Apply policies and procedures for all personnel operating in pharmacy in accordance with current law and best practice.

• Attend normal working hour of the pharmacy, at the professional services area of the practice.

• Overseas all professional activities carried out in the medicine retail outlet.

• Keep that every key, key card or other device, or the combination of any device, which allows access to controlled substances storage area when it is locked.

• Review the patient personal details and medication history

• Update and maintain the medication history during the dispensing process for patients with chronic disease.

• Contact the prescriber about a prescription or a patient’s therapy when necessary.

• Provide appropriate information to the patient to enable safe and effective use of the medicines and therapeutic device supplied.

• Minimize the incidence of a dispensing error occurring

• Dispense medicines with legible and unambiguous labels.

• Confirm the legality; identify the patient’s condition, legibility, completeness, correctness, therapeutic aspects and appropriateness of the prescription paper.

• Report any suspected adverse drug reactions (ADRs), or suspected fake and substandard medicines to the technical manager or appropriate organ.

• Order and stock prescription and over-the-counter medications.

• Comply with standards and any other requirement specified by the regulatory bodies/appropriate organs.

• To work ethically and with full professional competence.

Requirement

• BPharm in Clinical Oriented Pharmacy plus MSc in Clinical Pharmacy/ Pharmacy Practice from a recognized and qualified higher education institution

• 5 years and above experience under BPharm and 2 years and more experience with a specialty in health care.

• Demonstrate experience in applying Clinical Pharmacy services

• Demonstrate experience working with the different healthcare team

Required skill

• Management and leadership skills
• Research and analytics skills
• Interpersonal and negotiation skills
• Communication, presentation, and reporting skills
• Knowledge in use of Microsoft office suite and Droga Computer software
• Ability to work in teams and in multicultural setting
• Proficiency in one or more of country working languages (Amharic, Oromiffa, Tigregna, Somaligna etc)