Assistant Pharmacist
Role Overview
Supports pharmacy operations, patient service, dispensing, stock management, and regulatory compliance.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Supports pharmacy operations, patient service, dispensing, stock management, and regulatory compliance.
Pharmacy operations and patient care
- Welcome patients and customers, attend to their needs, and respond to customer queries by phone.
- Dispense medicines accurately in the prescribed dosage and quantity, with clear instructions and suitable packaging.
- Maintain medicine and general-product displays and locate prescribed medicines.
- Ensure proper inventory handling and maintain pharmacy stock.
- Facilitate staff induction, training, and development and encourage effective teamwork.
- Implement and improve pharmacy quality SOPs in line with MOH guidelines, working with the Quality Manager.
- Ensure pharmacy coordinators escort clinic patients to the pharmacy.
- Keep pharmacy documentation current and ensure the pharmacy remains MOH compliant.
Stock liquidation
- Plan liquidation of products with short shelf lives to reduce non-moving and expiry issues.
- Notify the purchase coordinator about slow- and fast-moving products using ERP information.
- Prioritize non-moving over-the-counter stock.
- Submit monthly reports of non-moving items to the purchase coordinator and handle liquidation of those products.
Essential requirements
- Hold an appropriate Assistant Pharmacist license from the relevant regulatory health authority, with the qualifications and experience it mandates.
- Maintain professional re-licensure.
- Hold a valid American Heart Association Basic Life Support Provider card.
- Communicate clearly and effectively in spoken and written English.
- Be willing to work across departments when necessary.
Desirable qualifications
- Ability to work as part of an inter-professional team.
- Organizational and administrative skills, including use of an electronic medical record platform for clinical documentation.
- Effective Arabic communication.
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