Job Description
TASKS & ACCOUNTABILITIES:
- Ensure proper handover protocols are followed and provide daily reports to the Assistant Manager/Manager Pharmacy Services.
- Cross verify the medicines issued/consumption and co-relate with clinical data.
- To develop pharmacovigilance system.
- Ensure accurate dispensing of medicines, review CPOE to prevent drug interactions, and counsel patients properly. Promote rational drug use.
- Contact physicians for unavailable medicines and provide information on relevant alternatives.
- Ensure requisitions are issued accurately.
- Monitor and manage inventory stock levels and prepare and forward demand to the Pharmacy Manager as required.
- Receive goods, physically check, and shelve stock in the correct location at the specified temperature.
- Provide current and accurate drug information to healthcare professionals when required.
- Maintain records of drug information provided in accordance with specified record-keeping protocols.
- Provide monthly reports to the Assistant/Manager Pharmacy detailing stock, including fast-moving, slow-moving, short expiry, expired, broken, and damaged items.
- Ensure high-alert medications are labeled and provide all relevant precautions and information for proper administration.
- Document and provide the Assistant Manager/Manager with details of all interventions, drug information, and related relevant information.
- Ensure proper monitoring of temperatures and maintain accurate documentation.
- Provide management with regular updates and monthly KPI reports.
- Perform all other related tasks assigned by the Manager/Assistant Manager Pharmacy Services.
- Maintain updated bin cards and batch-/brand-wise stock records for each medicine, including batch numbers and expiry dates.
- Conduct regular physical stock reconciliation against bin cards, stock registers, and supporting receipt and issue documents, and report discrepancies to the Pharmacy Manager.
- Apply the First-Expiry, First-Out (FEFO) principle and take timely action to minimize losses from short-expiry medicines.
- Prepare quarterly, consumption-based medicine forecasts and procurement plans to prevent stockouts and overstocking.
- Ensure compliance with applicable IHHN and IRC pharmacy procedures and support internal monitoring visits, donor reviews, and audits
- Maintain updated bin cards and batch-/brand-wise stock records for each medicine, including batch numbers and expiry dates.
- Conduct regular physical stock reconciliation against bin cards, stock registers, and supporting receipt and issue documents, and report discrepancies to the Pharmacy Manager.
- Apply the First-Expiry, First-Out (FEFO) principle and take timely action to minimize losses from short-expiry medicines.
- Prepare quarterly, consumption-based medicine forecasts and procurement plans to prevent stockouts and overstocking.
- Ensure compliance with applicable IHHN and IRC pharmacy procedures and support internal monitoring visits, donor reviews, and audits.
Note: “Indus Hospital & Health Network is an employer that does not tolerate Sexual Exploitation and Abuse. All potential candidates will be subjected to rigorous background checks and controls.”