Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, December 22, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:

Duties and responsibilities involve compounding and dispensing medicine in a safe and professional way and working closely with the medical and nursing staff to ensure patients get the optimum care.

Duties and responsibilities
• Retrieving prescription orders
• Medicine compounding
• Maintaining patient profiles
• Answering phones
• Being aware of the latest medicines and their availability • Receive prescriptions from doctors.
• Prepare prescriptions for patients.
• Verify insurance and prescription information.
• Helps health care providers and patients by greeting them in person and by phone; answering questions and requests; referring inquiries to the doctor
• 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level; anticipating needed medications and supplies; placing and expediting orders; verifying receipt; removing outdated drugs.
• Maintains a safe and clean pharmacy by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
• Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols.
• Organizes medications to dispense by reading medication orders and prescriptions; preparing labels; calculating quantities; assembling intravenous solutions and other pharmaceutical therapies.
• Maintains records by recording and filing physicians’ orders and prescriptions.
• Ensures medication availability by delivering medications to patients and departments.
• Prepares reports by collecting and summarizing information.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
• Records and monitors temperature
• Reporting adverse drug reactions and poor-quality drugs to the pharmacy and poisons board.

Qualifications
• Holder of diploma in pharmacy from Kenya Medical Training College/any recognized medical institution
• Duly registered by pharmacy and poisons board current practice License
• Supply Management skills, Organization, Integrity, Reporting Skills, Attention to Detail, Dependability, Creating a Safe effective Environment, Quality Focus
• Required to maintain utmost level of accuracy while processing prescriptions.
• Expected to demonstrate ethical behaviour with emphasis on confidentiality, realization of professional liability and importance of following a protocol.
• Empathetic and compassionate listener as a member of a healthcare team, who is able to communicate with tact and diplomacy, should be friendly and interactive with patients and other members of the team.
• While dealing with patients, co-workers, doctors and nurses, should have the emotional maturity to solve conflicts.
• Three years working experience in a busy dispensing unit


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure

Interested candidates are invited to send their Application Letter, CV, letter of reference from pastor/chaplain, and copies of certificates on or before Tuesday, 31st January, 2023 to careers@nah.or.ke.  These documents should be merged into one PDF document. For details on job purpose and job description, kindly visit our website www.nah.or.ke/careers. Late applications will not be accepted and ONLY shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Addressed to: The Human Resource Manager,

Central Kenya Conference

P.O. Box 41352-00100

Nairobi

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