Pharmaceutical Technologist

Objective

• Our client in Healthcare sector seeks to engage a Pharmaceutical Technologist to help in preparing, manufacturing, and quality-checking pharmaceutical products while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards, safety requirements, and company procedures

Key Responsibilities:

• Receive written prescriptions or refill requests and verify that information is complete and accurate
• Maintain proper storage and security conditions for drugs.
• Answer telephones, responding to questions or requests.
• Fill bottles with prescribed medications and type affix labels.
• Assist clients by answering simple questions, locating items or referring them to the pharmacist for medications information.
• File prescriptions that have been filled.
• Clean, help maintain, equipment and work areas and sterilize glassware according to prescribed methods.
• Establish and maintain patient profiles, including lists of medications taken by individual patients.
• Order, label and store incoming supplies, verify quantities against invoices and inform supervisors of stock needs and shortages.
• Mix pharmaceutical preparations according to written prescriptions.
• Compute charges for medication and equipment dispensed to hospital patients and enter data in computer.
• Dispense medications and pharmaceutical supplies to patients, nursing stations and other departments.
• Price stock and mark items for sale.
• Providing information to supervisors, co-workers and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail or in person.
• Maintains pharmacy inventory by checking pharmaceutical stock to determine inventory level; anticipating needed medications and supplies; placing and expediting orders; verifying receipt; removing outdated drugs.
• Using relevant information and individual judgement to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations or standards.
• Observes professional ethics for the benefit of the law, the patient,the relatives of the patient and colleagues.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience

• Diploma in Pharmacy.
• Enrolled by pharmacy and poison board.
• Minimum 2 years’ experience.