Pharmacist at Hec Recruit (2 Openings) Full Time

Job Title: Pharmacist

Locations: Victoria Island and Lekki, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Working Schedule: 4 days a week 8am-8pm (random shifts)

Job Description

• Community pharmacists are well-respected professionals within their local community who use their expert knowledge of medicines to help patients get the best possible care and outcomes from their medicines.
• As a community pharmacist, you’ll be responsible for dispensing prescription and over-the-counter medicines that help people to maintain and improve their lives, in a cost-effective way.
• You will be responsible for constantly monitoring the quality, safety, and use of medicines, which requires a high level of interaction with patients, providing advice and information about the use of medicines and medical appliances.
• As a community pharmacist, you will work alongside pharmacy technicians and pharmacy support staff, such as pharmacy assistants to deliver the pharmacy service.
• Each person is a high valued member of the pharmacy team. Your location of work will typically be a high street pharmacy, part of a chain or an independent, or you might work in a doctor’s practice or health centre.

Key Responsibilities
As a community pharmacist, you’ll be responsible for:

• Dispensing of prescription and over-the-counter medicines to the public: Reviewing prescriptions from doctors to ensure accuracy and suitability for the patient, including the dosage, ingredients required, and correctly and safely labelled.
• Supervise the preparation of any medicines when not supplied ready-made by manufacturers
• Maintaining accurate pharmacy records, patient profiles, charge system files, and inventories: Maintaining a register of controlled drugs for legal and stock control purposes
• Liaising with doctors and other healthcare professionals to monitor, review and evaluate the effectiveness of medications
• Advising the public on medicines, side-effects of medicines and the treatment of minor ailments
• Providing advice on specialist health care issues, such as vaccinations, blood pressure, smoking cessation, cholesterol monitoring and diabetes
• Screening:
  • Managing, supervising, educating and training pharmacy support staff
  • Management of pharmacy finances and medicines budgets
  • Ordering and purchasing pharmaceutical supplies, medical supplies, or drugs
  • Maintaining stock and storing and handling it correctly.

Requirements

• Candidates should possess a Bachelor’s Degree in related fields with relevant work experience.

Salary
N300,000 Monthly.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.