Locum Pharmacy Technician

Qualifications, job requirements and competencies:

• Diplomacy in Pharmacy
• Valid practicing license
  
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a busy clinical setting, experience in an HIV clinical setting is an added advantage
  
• Strong leadership, analytical and organizational skills; demonstrated ability to work both independently and within a team, assess priorities, and manage multiple activities with attention to detail.
  
• Excellent cross-cultural communication (both oral and written) and interpersonal skills demonstrated by ability to interact professionally with culturally and linguistically diverse staff, stakeholders, clients and consultants.
  

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Plan, quantify, forecast and monitor usage of medicines and medical sundries needs for the clinic in line with the procurement plan.
  
• Ensure rational use of drugs and prevent causes of irrational use e.g. Poly-pharmacy
  
• Dispense prescribed medicines and provide appropriate information to clients on indications, contra-indications, dosage and side effects of medicines.
  
• Record pharmacy data including missed appointments, all the drugs dispensed to the clients, names of the drug and the patients to whom the drugs were dispensed both electronically and manually
  
• Provide pharmaceutical related technical information (such as interactions, treatment mismatches, and adverse reactions) to prescribers, medical staff, patient counselors and clients.
  
• Carry out adherence monitoring on medicines, used by the clients at the pharmacy level in line with the MJAP objectives
  
• Maintain proper inventory controls at the Pharmacy stores i.e. stock card balances, track expiries, minimum stock balances and buffer stocks in line with the MJAP policies and procedures