Pharmaceutical Technologist

Minimum 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
  
• Continuous Professional Development
  
• CPD Points
  

Competencies and Attributes

• Knowledge to pharmacology, pharmaceutics services
  
• Leading and managing change
  
• Innovation
  
• Decision making
  
• Ability to maintain build and maintain partnership and alliances
  
• Research and Development
  
• Data Analysis and reporting
  
• Excellent communication skills
  

• 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level; anticipating needed medications and supplies; placing and expediting orders; verifying receipt; removing outdated drugs & preparing ageing reports
  
• Organises 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 summarising 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