Pharmacist | Responsible Pharmacist | Junior Pharmacist | Interns at Essential Health Pharmacy Group

You will be responsible for providing high standards of pharmaceutical care and dispensary services in accordance with Good Pharmacy Practice, in a retail environment. 

Minimum Requirements:

Essential:

• BPharm or equivalent qualification
• Registered with the South African Pharmacy Council (SAPC)
• Experience in supervising staff
• Computer literate – MS Office
• Billingual

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provision of pharmaceutical care by taking responsibility for all patients / customers medicine-related needs, and being accountable for meeting those needs, which shall include, but not be limited to the following functions:
• Evaluation of a patient’s medicine-related needs by determining the indication, safety, and effectiveness of the therapy
• Accurately interpret scripts and act in a professional and responsible manner, and within the legal requirements in accordance with the SAPC
• Correct errors on scripts rejected by medical aid
• Dispensing of any medicine or scheduled substance on the prescription of a person authorised to prescribe medicine
• Determining patient compliance with the therapy, and follow-up to ensure that the patient’s medicine-related needs are being met
• The provision of pharmacist-initiated therapy
• The manufacturing of any medicine or scheduled substance, or supervision thereof
• Keep abreast of changes in medical aid procedures and requirements for claims and dispensing

Competencies:

Essential:

• Good communication skills, listening
• Basic dosing and important drug interaction
• Customer service/focus
• Supervisor experience, and able to lead by example
• Ability to train other staff members
• Conflict management
• Strong attention to detail
• Problem-solving
• Team player
• Trustworthy and honest
• Time management
• Able to deal with pressure

Special conditions of employment:

• Registered with the South African Pharmacy Council
• Willing and able to work retail hours
• Physically fit and able to stand for long periods
• Unisolv experience would be to your advantage but will not disqualify you.