Pharmacist
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Job Location:
Mpumalanga - South Africa
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Description
Right to Care is recruiting Pharmacists across Mpumalanga with 2 positions in Ehlanzeni District 2 in Nkangala District and 2 in Gert Sibande District.
Governance and Communication
- Establish and maintain strategic partnerships with relevant partners within the province
- Provide pharmaceutical management support for the district
- Ensure that PTCs are conducted according to policy and all standing agenda items are addressed
- Assist with trends analysis and ensure feedback is provided for ADRs reported CCMDD SVS Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) and medicine use evaluations to be presented at PTC
- Participate in the District task teams and technical working groups such as CCMDD SVS National Adherence Strategy Essential Medicines List committee AMS etc
- Monthly and quarterly reporting of programme activities to both DoH and RtC
Supply chain management
- Analyse the assessments conducted in facilities identify gaps and develop intervention strategies to address the identified gaps
- Develop quality improvement plans in collaboration with the facilities and the DoH District Pharmacist.
- Liaise with the DoH District Pharmacist Area Pharmacists and the District Management Teams to suggest and support interventions to improve medicine availability.
- Ongoing training mentoring and coaching to improve medicine availability and management
- Promote rational use of medicines assist the District Pharmacists with evaluating medicine usage in the district
- Ensure compliance with good pharmacy practices good dispensing practices National Core Standards and all other regulations
Professional Development
- Identify training needs for pharmacy personnel and other health care workers
- Co-ordinate pharmacy related training develop and implement differentiated training and other skills development within the district
- Ensure continued professional development for all staff and build capacity for PAs to ensure optimal support for all programmes
Monitoring and Evaluation
- Compiling and reporting monthly and quarterly statistics and reports form Pharmacists Assistants
- Asist the district with establishing and maintaining ADR reports database and monitoring framework
- Ensure the M&E framework for CCMDD is implemented
- Assist with patient satisfaction survey.
- Monitoring of service delivery at facility level and PuPs for CCMDD programme
- Undertake operational research to monitor outcomes of programme implementation
Programme Implementation
- Supervise Pharmacists Assistants in the District
- Liaise with Provincial Medicines Liaison Officers (PMLOs) for effective programme coordination (SVS and CCMDD)
- Ensure that SOPs are available and implemented
- Monitor the reporting and completeness levels and provide strategies for improvement for SVS
- Assist with second-line support for challenges that could not be resolved at facility
- Monitor escalated challenges (such as software and device related challenges service availability or connectivity device loss theft or damage and device repair and/or replacement) to ensure that they are resolved within the stipulated turn-around times.
- Assist with customising district formularies to improve completeness of reporting
- Provide technical support for development of District CCMDD implementation plan
- Identification and recruitment of pick-up points (PuPs) in consultation with districts.
- Conduct PuP assessments facilitate the registration of PuPs with the National Treasury (Central Supplier Database)
- Quarterly assessments of the PuPs
- Orientation & training of Pick-up points once appointed and follow up with support visits.
- Provide TA for hospital pharmacy managers to ensure that pharmaceutical services are implemented effectively and efficiently
- Monitor the utilisation of Rx solution and ensure that hospitals are reporting to the National Surveillance Centre
Requirements
Required Minimum Qualifications and Experience
- B. Pharm degree
- Registration with the SA Pharmacy Council
- 3 years experience post Community Service
Desirable Qualifications and Experience
- A postgraduate qualification in Pharmacy or public health Working knowledge of Microsoft Office
- HIVAIDS Management course
- Registration as a tutor
- 5 years experience post Community
- Previous public sector experience
- Experience preferably within a PEPFAR funded organisation
Work Level
Skilled
Job Type
Contract
Salary
Market Related
Duration
< 6 Months
EE Position
Yes
Location
Mpumalanga
Key Skills
- LTC Pharmacy
- Hospital Experience
- Pharmacy Software
- Continuous Improvement
- Go
- Infusion Experience
- Pharmacy Residency
- Training & Development
- Order Entry
- Epic
- Clinical Pharmacy Experience
- Compounding Medications
About Company
Right to Care is a leading healthcare organization that began in response to the public healthcare emergency of HIV and AIDS in South Africa
