Pharmacist

The Pharmacist plays a crucial role in ensuring the safe, accurate, and timely dispensing of medicines to patients while effectively managing pharmacy and store inventories. This position guarantees that medications are available, properly stored, within expiry dates, and administered according to prescriptions and the Centre’s policies and regulations.

Key Responsibilities

Dispensing and Patient Safety:
Accurately dispense medicines based on consultant prescriptions, considering patient details such as name, age, and body weight. Verify patient files to ensure medications are given on schedule. Conduct thorough inspections of medicines across departments using checklists provided to ward staff. Regularly audit and maintain crash/emergency trolleys to ensure they are complete and up to date.

Inventory and Stock Management:
Maintain and manage pharmacy and store inventories, ensuring maximum stock levels are upheld and shortages are identified early. Keep daily and weekly stock registers updated. Manage the Operating Theatre (O.T.) cupboard separately, ensuring proper storage and availability of surgical medicines and supplies.

Procurement and Receiving:
Prepare Goods Received Notes (GRNs) for all store items received and forward them to the relevant departments. Record drug purchases separately based on their source, such as CHK, FOBC, or donations. Place indents with CHK as required, or coordinate with the FOBC pharmacist in the absence of the CHK pharmacist.

Storage, Labelling, and Expiry Control:
Regularly monitor expiry dates of all medicines and take timely action on near-expiry or expired items. Ensure all shelves and bin cards are clearly labeled and that only one type of medicine is stored per bin/card to avoid mix-ups.

General:
Perform any additional tasks assigned by management to support pharmacy operations.

Required Qualifications

A Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy (B.Pharm) or Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D) from a recognized institution is mandatory. Candidates must hold valid registration with the Pharmacy Council of Pakistan or the relevant provincial authority. A minimum of two years’ experience in a hospital, clinic, or retail pharmacy setting is preferred.

Skills and Competencies

Candidates should have a strong knowledge of drugs, including dosages based on age and weight, drug interactions, and storage requirements. Experience with inventory control, stock registers, and bin card systems is essential. Attention to detail and accuracy in documentation are critical. Effective communication skills are necessary for collaboration with consultants, nurses, ward staff, and suppliers. Basic computer proficiency, including MS Office and pharmacy inventory software, is required. The ability to work under pressure and respond promptly to emergencies is also important.

Performance Indicators

Success in this role will be measured by the accuracy of dispensing and the absence of medication errors, stock accuracy, and availability of essential medicines. Timely identification and handling of expired or near-expired items, completeness and punctuality of GRNs and stock records, as well as compliance with crash trolley and ward inspections, are key performance metrics.

Compensation

The position offers a starting salary from Rs50,000 per month.

Work Location

This role requires in-person attendance at the Centre.