Aids Healthcare Foundation (AHF), is a legally registered NGO operating in Nigeria, AHF-Nigeria collaborates with the Federal Government of Nigeria and other partner institutions, to provide technical assistance to these key. To meet the above needs, the program wishes to recruit a dynamic, skilled, committed, self-driven and results oriented individuals to fill the vacant position below:
Job Title: Pharmacist/Pharmacy Technician
Locations: Benue and Kogi
Report: Pharmacist/Site Coordinator
Slot: 2
Job Summary
- Works to ensure implementation of pharmacy best practices, quality improvement of pharmacy services, rational drug use, and logistics management of anti-retroviral drugs and drugs for opportunistic infections in assigned clinics and outposts.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Answers questions and provides information to patients and providers on drug interactions, side effects, adverse drug reactions, dosage, and storage of pharmaceuticals.
- Counsels patients on medication adherence.
- Maintains established policies and procedures concerning quality assurance, security of controlled substances, and disposal of hazardous waste drugs.
- Manages appropriate data collection, such as client name, prescribed medication and cost, to maintain pharmacy files, charge system, and drug inventory through mentorship of staff at clinics and outposts.
- Performs a monthly stock count of pharmaceuticals at the clinic store and outpost stores;
- Supervises the pre-dispensing of prescriptions for clients who are down referred to PHC sites;
- Ensure completion and submission of accurate and auditable monthly drug reports from clinic and outposts.
- Collaborate with the Pharmacist at the central office to ensure there is adequate stock of Pharmaceuticals at the sites.
- Update Pharmacy Services Database on a monthly basis for assigned AHF sites.
- Represent AHF Nigeria at State Drug Logistics Meetings organized by the Ministry of Health.
- Any other duties as may be assigned by the supervisor.
Education and/or Experiences
- Suitable candidate will be fresh graduate in Pharmacy or Pharmacy Technician Diploma of School of Health Technology with over 5 years of experience in HIV/AIDS Pharmacy Programs.
- The fresh pharmacy graduate must possess a Pharmacy Bachelor of Pharmacy Degree
- (B.Pharm.), with a valid license to practice as a Pharmacist.
- The Pharmacy technician must possess a Diploma from the School of Health Technology with a valid license to practice as Pharmacy Technician.
- Experience in logistics management of drugs, preferably in an NGO
- Computer proficiency an added advantage.
Application Closing Date
12:00 PM; 22nd March, 2016.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should submit their CV's and cover letters to:
[email protected]
Note
- Candidate should kindly indicate the position applying for and their preferred located as the subject of their e-mail.
- Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.