Pharmacy Dispenser (Afghan National Only)

Medical & Health

Overview

Dispense and manage pharmaceuticals, provide patient counseling

You have:

• Diploma in pharmacy and/or trained as a dispenser along with 1-2 years’ work experience.
• Good mathematical skills.
• Ability to understand the cultural and political environment and work with local health representatives.
• Skills to provide sensitive and appropriate medical counseling.
• Excellent communication skills, good spoken and writing of concise reports in English.
• Must be a team player with excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work under pressure.
• Ability to be innovative, flexible, adaptive, willing to work out of hours, sometimes throughout the night.
• Ability to live and work under challenging conditions and in high pressure situations.

Job Description

Pharmaceutical Management

- Dispense medicines to all patients according to the doctor’s prescription - Provide counselling to patients regarding the proper usage of prescribed medications - Routinely monitor the expiry dates of medicines ensuring that those with short expiry dates will be used first before they become expired. - Keep the drug store clean, store medicines appropriately with the up to date, to be checked easily - Monitor and ensure optimum room temperatures are maintained and charting room temperatures regularly. - Prevent physical damage and contamination of drugs. - Ensure all stock related reports and inventories are completed. - Notify the clinical officer in-charge of the drug stock levels to ensure no stock outs. - Work with other health staff to ensure wards/clinic areas are appropriately stocked with essential equipment and supplies. - Ensure regular inventory and consumption tracking of medical drugs and supplies. - Work with relevant staff to ensure prompt requesting of medical drugs and supplies. - Carry out day duties as per duty roaster.

Staff Supervision & Development

- Maintain open and professional relations with team members, promoting a strong team spirit and provide guidance to enable staff to successfully perform in their positions. - Provide pharmaceutical support and mentorship to other mobile clinic staff, providing on-the-job training where needed.

Monitoring and Reporting

- Ensure all dispensary documents are completed in a timely manner in line with IRC’s Pharmaceutical guidelines - Maintain up-to-date stock inventories. - Compile and submit stock consumption reports and flag to Medical doctor if supplies stocks are low

Other Duties

- Consistently and proactively monitor/assess the safety and security of the team; promptly reporting concerns or incidents to IRC management and liaising with community leaders and other external parties as required to maintain/enhance the security environment for IRC programs. - Other duties as assigned by the supervisor to enable and develop IRC programs.

Qualifications

- Diploma in pharmacy and/or trained as a dispenser along with 1-2 years’ work experience - Good mathematical skills - Ability and flexibility to understand the cultural and political environment and to work well with the local health representatives. - Skills to provide sensitive and appropriate medical counseling. - Excellent communication skills, good spoken and writing of concise reports in English. - Must be a team player with excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work under pressure in a stressful environment, displaying patience, compassion and diplomacy. - Ability to be innovative, flexible, adaptive, and willingness to work out of hours, sometimes throughout the night. - Ability to live in challenging conditions and ability to work under difficult, high pressure situations. -

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Added 4 years ago - Updated 1 year ago - Source: rescue.org