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• Filling and labelling all containers with prescribed medications and ensuring proper storage.

• Labelling all shelves and ensuring that drugs are stored neatly and safely

• Ensure all medicines are stored at required temperature by monitoring store and fridge temperature.

• Cleaning and preparing equipment and containers used to prepare and dispense medicines and pharmaceutical compounds.

• Organise and supervise the manual loading and off loading of vehicles, as needed.

• Responsible for the security and cleanliness of interior and exterior of store and pharmacy area.

• Orientation and training of staff

• Participate in rota management and allocation to ensure efficiency

• Time management and task completion.

• Meet departmental financial targets

• Meeting attendance

• Uniform policy

Prescription management

• Dispensing medicines and drugs to clients and giving written and oral instructions on their use, as prescribed by medical doctors or other health professionals.

• Preparing medications and other pharmaceutical compounds under the guidance of a pharmacist or other health professional.

• Receiving prescriptions or refill requests from health professionals and verifying that information is complete and accurate according to medical record-keeping standards.

• Issue stock to user departments in accordance with MSUG procedures.

  
  

Documentation/reporting

• Prepare reports related to consumption, sales, weekly short-dated stock,weekly priority items that require to be prioritised by prescribers, physical stock status, expired stocks, damages, returns etc. and submit according to schedule

• Pricing and filing prescriptions that have been filled and establishing and maintaining patient records, including lists of medications taken by individual patients

• Keep record and report near misses, drug incidences, missed opportunities, fraud among others

• Stock management and accountability

• Maintain inventory register for both consumable and on-Consumable items.

• Perform physical stock counts as per schedule; perform reconciliation with paper files and as required in the system solution to ensure compliance with stock level agreements; follow up with supervisor in regards to discrepancies, alarm thresholds, stock outs and expiry dates.

• Carryout stock rotation according to FEFO (First Expiry First Out) and FIFO (First In First Out).

• Ordering, labelling, and counting stock of medications, chemicals and supplies, and entering inventory data into record-keeping systems.

• Track all movements of drugs in and out of store, including checking deliveries against dispatch notices for quality and quantity.

• Ensure proper inventory monitoring to mitigate stock loss

Customer care

• Assisting clients by answering questions, locating items or referring them to a doctor for medication information.

• Queue management- check on each patient in the waiting area and ensure that they are attended to in a timely manner.

• Pending medication- using the dispensing record books, follow up on the status of pending actions and share feedback with supervisor/team leader or assigned personnel

• Usher in clients warmly and ensure that they have a swift pleasant experience through efficiency of service and minimize client waiting time.