Full-time Pharmacist at Hec Recruit - 2 Openings

Hec Recruit is a full-service HR consulting firm with a unique approach. Since 2020 we have been helping our clients find a job best suited for their skills and interests, and helping local companies locate the best employees.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Full-time Pharmacist

Locations: Victoria Island & Festac, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Industry: Community Pharmacy
Workplace Type: On Site
Working Schedule: 4 days a week, 8am - 8pm (random shifts)

Job Description

• Community pharmacists are well-respected professionals within their local community who use their expert knowledge of medicines to help patients get the best possible care and outcomes from their medicines.
• As a community pharmacist, you'll be responsible for dispensing prescription and over-the-counter medicines that help people to maintain and improve their lives, in a cost-effective way. You will be responsible for constantly monitoring the quality, safety, and use of medicines, which requires a high level of interaction with patients, providing advice and information about the use of medicines and medical appliances.
• As a community pharmacist, you will work alongside pharmacy technicians and pharmacy support staff, such as pharmacy assistants to deliver the pharmacy service.
• Each person is a high valued member of the pharmacy team. Your location of work will typically be a high street pharmacy, part of a chain or an independent, or you might work in a doctor's practice or health centre.

Key Responsibilities
As a community pharmacist, you'll be responsible for:

• Dispensing of prescription and over-the-counter medicines to the public
• Reviewing prescriptions from doctors to ensure accuracy and suitability for the patient, including the dosage, ingredients required, and correctly and safely labelled.
• Supervise the preparation of any medicines when not supplied ready-made by manufacturers
• Maintaining accurate pharmacy records, patient profiles, charge system files, and inventories
• Maintaining a register of controlled drugs for legal and stock control purposes
• Liaising with doctors and other healthcare professionals to monitor, review and evaluate the effectiveness of medications
• Advising the public on medicines, side-effects of medicines and the treatment of minor ailments
• Providing advice on specialist health care issues, such as vaccinations, blood pressure, smoking cessation, cholesterol monitoring and diabetes
• Screening
• Managing, supervising, educating and training pharmacy support staff
• Management of pharmacy finances and medicines budgets
• Ordering and purchasing pharmaceutical supplies, medical supplies, or drugs
• Maintaining stock and storing and handling it correctly.

Remuneration
N300,000 Monthly.

Application Closing Date
27th January, 2025.