Senior Pharmacist

QUALIFICATION

EXPERIENCE

SKILLS

Duties may

• Compounding and dispensing medications, as prescribed by physicians.
• Monitoring customers drug therapies, advising interventions, and informing customers of any potential side effects.
• Instructing customers on how and when to take prescribed medications.
• Conducting health and wellness screenings.
• Providing immunizations, and other medical services, such as taking blood pressure, temperature measurements, and checking blood sugar levels.
• Keeping accurate customer records.
• Ensuring a safe and clean working environment.
• Completing operational requirements of the pharmacy, including verifying order entries, maintaining records of controlled substances, charges, and removing expired and/or damaged drugs from the pharmacy’s inventory.
• Adhering to applicable legal rules, regulations, and procedures governing pharmaceutical practice.
• Performing other administrative tasks when needed
• .dispensing medications as prescribed by doctors and other medical professionals
• reviewing prescriptions to ensure accuracy and to evaluate their suitability for the patient
• providing information and advice about drugs, their side effects, correct dosage and proper storage
• providing other health advice, such as guidance on stopping smoking
• keeping records such as pharmacy files, patient profiles, charge system files, inventories, and registries of poisons, narcotics or controlled drugs
• planning, implementing and maintaining procedures for mixing, packaging and labelling pharmaceuticals to ensure they meet legal requirements
• assessing the identity, strength or purity of medications
• working with other healthcare professionals to plan, monitor, review, or evaluate the quality or effectiveness of drugs
• ordering and purchasing pharmaceutical supplies, medical supplies, or drugs.
• maintaining stock and storing and handling it properly
• analysing prescribing trends to monitor patient compliance and to prevent excessive usage or harmful interactions
• advising patients on medication brands, medical equipment or healthcare supplies.