Pharmacist Job at Coastal Specialist Clinic

Coastal Specialist Clinic is a mother-and-child hospital that focuses on pregnancy, childbirth, and everything in between. We started providing services in 2011. Additionally, we are committed to upholding high standards through great work ethics, continual improvement, and superior customer service. We are currently located in Warri, Delta State , Nigeria.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Pharmacist

Job Location: Warri, Delta
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• The pharmacist is responsible for reviewing and executing physician’s prescriptions, ensuring drug legality and appropriateness, and helping patients understand how and when to take their prescriptions. They ensure patients get their prescribed medications in the correct dosage.

Your Responsibilities

• Reviewing and executing physician’s prescriptions. Ensuring their legality and appropriateness.
• Prepare medications appropriately using the correct dosages and material for each patient.
• Coordinate the distribution, delivery, and pick up of pharmaceutical products
• Maintain complete control over delivering, stocking and labelling of medications and other product supplies. Monitor their conditions to prevent expiring or deterioration.
• Dispense medication for individual prescriptions to inpatients and outpatients in line with Standard Operating Procedures, ensuring that standards of quality, accuracy and timeliness are met.
• Prepare walk-in pharmacy orders.
• Organize the pharmacy in an efficient way to ensure smooth and easy identification of products.
• Ensure hospital supplies are distributed to authorized locations.
• Perform other duties as assigned to you by senior leadership.
• Maintain records and stocks of medications and supplies; prepare requisitions to reorder pharmaceutical items as required.
• Sorts and stocks of incoming pharmaceutical products.
• Ensure accuracy in the receipt of all goods, including recording all receipts, issues, batch numbers, expiry dates and other relevant information into the pharmacy’s database ensuring that all transactions are recorded promptly and accurately to maintain accurate departmental stock.
• Ensure adequate stock control to minimize stock-outs and wastages.
• Perform general clerical duties, such as answering calls, receiving prescriptions, processing dispensing fees, operating cash register and entering prescriptions into the pharmacy tracking system according to departmental procedures.
• Maintenance and accurate posting of inpatient and outpatient files.
• Ensure all drug transactions are entered accurately into the pharmacy’s database to minimize stock discrepancies and drug shortage situations.
• Ensure adequate stock control.
• Protect patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols.
• Maintain standards of safety, tidiness and cleanliness within the department by Health and Safety regulations and ensure all working practices and Standard Operating Procedures are followed.
• Comply with all the provisions of the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation (NDPR) 2019.
• Maintain proper storage and security conditions for drugs.
• Clean the work area, and sterilize prescription bottles and other containers.
• Monitor the environment and equipment within the department to determine that they conform to agreed standards, and carry out operator validation tests so that the quality of products is assured.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Minimum academic qualification of a Bachelor's Degree in Pharmacy.
• 1 to 3 years of relevant work experience preferably in the Health or Service sector.
• Knowledge of the Microsoft Office package.
• Membership of relevant professional bodies such as the Pharmacy Council of Nigeria (PCN).
• Strong attention to detail.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Outstanding communication (oral and written), interpersonal and people management skills.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV only to: careers@coastalspecialistclinic.com.ng using the Job Position as the subject of the email.