Pharmacy Technologist Job Vacancy in Nandi Hills, Kenya

Bethesda Health Care Services 

 Position Title: Pharmacy Technologist

Bethesda Healthcare Services in Nandi Hills seeks to employ a Pharmacy Technologist. The position is responsible for preparing medications by reviewing and interpreting orders, detecting therapeutic incompatibilities; dispensing medications by compounding, packaging, and labeling pharmaceuticals and controlling medications by monitoring drug therapies and advising on any side effects.

Responsibilities

  • Receive written prescriptions or refill requests and verify that information is complete and accurate.
  • Maintain proper storage and security conditions for drugs.
  • Fill bottles with prescribed medications and type affix labels.
  • File prescriptions that have been filled.
  • Establish and maintain patient profiles, including lists of medications taken by individual patients.
  • Order, label and store incoming supplies, verify quantities against invoices and inform supervisors of stock needs and shortages.
  • Mix pharmaceutical preparations according to written prescriptions.
  • Dispense medications and pharmaceutical supplies to patients, nursing stations and other departments.
  • Maintains pharmacy inventory by checking pharmaceutical stock to determine inventory level; anticipating needed medications and supplies; placing and expediting orders; verifying receipt; removing outdated drugs.
  • Using relevant information and individual judgement to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations or standards.
  • Observes professional ethics for the benefit of the law, the patient, the relatives of the patient and colleagues.

Qualifications

  • Diploma in Pharmacy from a reputable institution.
  • Registered and licensed by the PPB

Applications to reach by 19th September 2023 to hr@bethesdahospitalcare.org