Full Time
Posted 5 months ago
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: OSS Pharmacist
Locations: Ebonyi
Employment Type: Full-time
Position Overview
- Dispense Antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) and other medication in line with approved regimens and standards
- Dispensing ARVs in appropriate packaging with clear instructions
- Providing medication-related counseling, including reinforcing adherence and advising on potential side effects and drug interactions
- Providing drug information to health service providers and clients on request
- Identifying and supporting follow-up of clients who do not return for refills of their ARVs
- Working with providers and clients to identify, manage, and report adverse drug reactions and drug interactions
- Contributing to decision making on treatment and care for individual clients
- Ensure Good Pharmaceutical Practice (GPP) and standards
- Calculate drug storage needs for ART start-up and expansion
- Monitor ARV and other drug (STIs, OIs, etc.) stock levels at the community level and communicate with the project team for re-stocking
- Contribute to forecasting /quantification of health commodities and monitoring of drug distributions
- Oversee drug logistics i.e. stock-taking, proper drug storage, drug stock out and monitor the effectiveness of the pull system
- Assess the functionality of existing pharmaceutical management systems and develop implementation plans that prioritize and address gaps
- Oversee quality assurance systems at the community level by close monitoring of prescription patterns, ensuring proper documentation, side effects monitoring (pharmacovigilance) and reducing dispensing errors
- Identify needs for information resources—for example, ART guidelines and drug information for medication counselling
- Implement monitoring and reporting of medication errors, suspected adverse reactions to medicines, and other medication-related events
- Monitoring ART prescriptions for appropriateness and discrepancies
- Monitoring adherence to ARVs; working with clients and other health service providers to address difficulties
- Address emerging problems as client numbers increase
- Contribute to the development of data collection tools for KPs (HTS, ART and Prevention for Positives)
- Monitor and report weekly enrollment
- Provide support to the Strategic Information (SI) unit to conduct research (qualitative and quantitative) surveys on service delivery outcomes for HIV prevention, care and treatment.
- Ensure timely submission of quality reports to the PR/SR on monthly and quarterly basis or as required
- Support the development of budgets and work plans, as appropriate, for clinical services at the community level.
- Proactively seek out and report relevant opportunities, success stories, linkages or challenges that may promote clinical services for the project.
Required Qualifications
- A minimum of Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmacy or other relevant field with prior relevant field with prior experience in supply chain management and HIV/AIDS monitoring and evaluation.
- At least 3 years experience in related programming in developing countries.
- Experience in Pharmacy Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
- Experience in HIV/AIDS monitoring.
- Proficiency in MS Access, SPSS, MS Excel, MS Word, MS Power Point and other Office packages.
- Proficiency in the use of email and internet.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and organizational skills.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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Send a detailed resume and a one-page cover letter as one (1) MS Word document explaining suitability for the position to the Human Resources Unit by email to: [email protected]Application must explicitly state your full names, the position of interest with preferred location as the subject of the email.
Deadline: December 31, 2023
Job Features
Job Category | Full Time Pharmacist |