Head Pharmacist
Head Pharmacist
Goodlife
About The Job
- The Head Pharmacist needs to be deadline-oriented to ensure that tasks are completed on time. They should have strong time-management skills, the ability to prioritize tasks, and excellent communication skills to keep their team on track.
- The Head Pharmacist’s responsibilities include ensuring customer service, ensuring operational compliance, exceptional pharmacy standards and the prevention of stock losses. They should be a responsible leader with an analytical and strategic mind and have a broad knowledge of the pharmacy business.
Specific Skills
- Being registered with the National Pharmaceutical Council and Licensed to practice in a pharmacy
- Minimum of 7 years of professional experience managing Big Pharmacies/Large Pharmacy chains
- Experience in managing wholesale Pharmacy stores
- Experience in Pharmacy Dealership/Distribution
- Familiarity with FDA Inspections & Licensing requirements
Responsibilities & Duties
- Dispensing of pharmaceuticals to patients or medical practitioners; makes decisions regarding generic substitution of prescribed pharmaceuticals.
- Consults with patients and/or medical practitioners on drug indications/contraindications, dosage, drug interactions, and side effects; provides other drug and pharmaceutical information as appropriate.
- Ensure coverage of the pharmacy by licensed medical team (Pharmacist and nurses); be certain that the pharmacy is properly registered and operating in accordance with the present laws, rules, and regulations.
- Establishes and maintains methods and manner of storage and recordkeeping systems to provide for safekeeping of pharmaceuticals.
- Ensure against unauthorized entry into the pharmacy's dispensing and compounding area and ensure appropriate security.
- Instruct ALL employees, either orally or in writing, at regular intervals relative to the appropriate activities in connection with the practice of pharmacy.
- Taking patient's histories as required; makes initial clinical assessments and refers patients to appropriate clinicians.
- Follows established departmental policies, procedures, and objectives, continuous quality improvement objectives, and safety, environmental, and/or infection control standards.
- Ensures that insurance invoices are submitted in the agreed timelines.
- Working closely with the head of operations to achieve goals and objectives.
- Trains the pharmacy team, oversees their daily activities and shares feedback with the team.
- Ensures that requisitions are sent on time.
- Driving pharmacy sales to achieve monthly sales targets.
- Achieving monthly sales targets
- Minimizing stock losses/ expired stock and shrinkage
- Minimizing expenses
- Store expansion and growth of our Pharmacy Retail footprint. • Staff coaching & development.
Educational Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Pharmacy
- Doctor of Pharmacy would be an added advantage
Job Location
Rwanda
Apply To
All interested applicants should submit their detailed Curriculum Vitae at recruitment@hcsolutions.rw