Pharmacist | Baco, Oriental, Mindoro | URGENT

JOB PURPOSE

Pharmacists are responsible for controlling, dispensing, distributing, and promoting generic medicines. He/she is governed by legal and ethical guidelines to ensure the correct and safe supply of medicines in the store. He/she is involved in maintaining and improving people’s health by providing advice and information as well as supplying prescription medicines. As a pharmacist, they are responsible for selling over-the-counter medical products and instructing patients on the proper administration and use of these medicines.

SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES

• Prepare orders and fill prescription forms
• Dispense drugs and conducts counseling for customers
• Order and store medicines, making sure that they are kept safe, pure, and effective
• Dispense medications following prescriptions issued by an authorized medical practitioner
• Oversee the performance of packaging, labeling, measuring, compounding, storing, charging, and recording medications used in patient care
• Review prescriptions for appropriateness of therapy to determine ingredients needed and to ensure the correct dosage
• Advise patients and care providers of potential drug interactions, possible side effects, storage information, and instructions on how to use medications
• Ensure compliance of stores to all pertinent statutory and regulatory bodies
• Maintain records of FDA Inspection reports and permits issued by the government agencies
• Receive and record adverse drug reactions or product complaints
• Collection and receiving of special situation reports
• Reporting safety information to the PV team
• Maintenance of AE/PQC documentation with PV Team
• Maintain and monitor License to Operate validity
• Comply with any findings/temporary suspension for the applied LTO permits
• Present drug lectures to medical nursing staff, physicians, and other groups on matters of pharmacy
• Prepare sterile products for patient administration, determines proper preparation, storage, and stability requirements of the product
• Assist clinicians in establishing the proper protocols, storage, distribution, and administrations procedures for investigational drugs
• Develop or participate in clinical pharmaceutical research
• Serves as a preceptor for pharmacy interns

JOB REQUIREMENTS

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy with Licensed/Board Passer Pharmacy
• Familiar with Point-of-sale Systems (POS)

COMPETENCIES

• Able to establish or attend store activities.
• Able to identify problems and choose a logical solution.
• Able to understand the functional aspects of store operations.
• Able to exercise tact and diplomacy
• Strong interpersonal – customer-centric skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent team player
• Time management
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Able to render extended work hours as required by store activities
• Capable of working effectively with other support teams or units

PHYSICAL DEMAND

• While performing the duties of the job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk and reach with hands and arms.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus