Team Leader - Polmed business Unit - AFROCENTRIC (Medscheme) - South Africa
(2025-01)
- Stakeholder management – Addressing customer and or stakeholders concerns in alignment with company policy
- Compliance and risk management – client and business reports and meetings
- Operational leadership- manage operational performance of the team, HR related issues as per company policy, as well as statutory and regulatory compliance for the Unit
- Ensuring Operational Management of the team
- Operational implementation of business strategy
Pharmacist - Pharmacy Direct - South Africa
(2024-01 - 2025-03)
- Responsible for the Quality Control of all scripts loaded by Senior Pharmacist assistants
- Drug Utilization Review (DUR) on all captured prescriptions
- Take responsibility for the signing off all captured prescriptions
- Manage and resolve all escalated clinical queries
- Patient Counselling
- Mentoring and coaching Pharmacist Assistants
- Improve efficiencies through evaluation of tasks done by Pharmacist Assistants
- Any other tasks that typically belongs in a pharmacy
Director - Morwabix (PTY) Ltd - South Africa
(2021-01 - 2024-12)
- Management and key decision making
- Prepare presentation to the stake holders
- Facilitate workshops
- Attending meetings with role players e.g., Engineers, municipal managers, operational managers etc
- Meeting with suppliers
Deputy Manager / Acting Unit Manager / Medicines Registration and Regulatory Officer - SAHPRA - South African Health Product Regulatory Authority - South Africa
(2016-01 - 2021-12)
- Medicine registration and regulatory officer
- Deputy manager
- Acting manager (variations Unit)
- Staff management, duty allocation and supervision
- Medicines applications review and approval
- Meetings with the CEO, CRO and stakeholder meetings at MCC (Medicine Control Council) and then SAHPRA
- Assessing quarterly performances of all staff members
- Submitting monthly reports to the Exco, audit reports, progress reports and the unit performances
- Drafting of policy documents, which included guidelines of our unit, drafting of standard operating procedures
- e-CTD submission of dossier and compilation in line with SAHPRA regulatory requirements
- Effective running of the Post registrations (Variations) unit including to review and conduct dossiers due diligence of post registration applications
- From time to time lead and chair meetings of multidisciplinary division within the organization
Senior Pharmacist and Tutor - Pharmacy Direct - South Africa
(2010-01 - 2016-12)
Courier medicine company specializing in chronic medicine delivery.
- Attend to clinical queries
- Manage HIV claims for several medical aids
- Attend to escalated queries from Doctors, Administrators, Patients and Medical schemes
- Load and dispense prescriptions(Allegra and Unisolve)
- Quality check claims done by Pharmacist assistants
- Act as a tutor for Pharmacist assistants
- Quality control checks
- Take responsibility for the Quality control of all prescriptions picked by pharmacist assistants
- Be accountable for signing off all picked medication in the dispensary
- In June 2016 i decided to join the National Department of Health (Medicine Control Council). The decision behind the move was to expand my knowledge in the regulatory field
Responsible Pharmacist - Molatoli Pharmacy - South Africa
(2007-01 - 2009-12)
Retail pharmacy operations.
- Late 2007 I opened my pharmacy where I was a responsible Pharmacist and had to manage staff, dispense prescriptions and do orders with different suppliers
- Negotiate prices with different suppliers
- Marketing strategies for the business
- Responsible for financial management of the business and profit
- Control and balance schedule 6 register monthly as per SAPC requirement
- Provide continuous training to the pharmacy staff
- Dispensing of medicine using Unisolve
Pharmacist and HIV Unit Manager - Botshabelo Hospital - Free State, South Africa
(2006-01 - 2006-12)
Government hospital.
- In 2006 I was appointed at Botshabelo hospital and at the in the Free State Hospitals
- I was appointed as Pharmacy Manager for the HIV unit at Botshabelo Hospital
- One of my task was to ensure that the HIV Unit is successfully established and managed properly
- The unit was responsible for supplying 8 clinics with ARV within the township of Botshabelo
- To successfully establish the HIV Unit
- Had to manage and draw roster for the staff on daily basis
- I had to interact with the prescribing Doctors and Sisters at clinics
- Control stock and place orders from the Provincial depot and prepare stock boxes for all eight clinics on daily basis
- Attend the workshops with other managers of the Hospital and other districts
- Submit a weekly report to the clinical manager and CEO of Hospital regarding activities in the HIV unit that include plenary, progress and challenges
- Provide counselling to our patients who are collecting their medication at hospital and interact with other health professional at hospital in order to provide necessary support for patients
- Educate other staff members regarding the HIV and Aids as I was the one who attends government workshops
- The HIV unit was a huge success for me and other staff members including the Hospital management, the district and was able to cater for more patients living in the vicinity of the hospital and clinics
Community Service Pharmacist / Acting Responsible Pharmacist - Mecklenburg Hospital - Limpopo, South Africa
(2005-01 - 2005-12)
- In 2005 I was appointed as a community service Pharmacist at Mecklenburg Hospital. At the end of my first month of my community service the Responsible Pharmacist resigned and had to take over as an acting Responsible Pharmacist
- I had to manage and supervise all staff of Pharmacy Department and ensure that both IN and OUT patients are served to the required standard of service. I had to balance the schedule 6 register on a weekly basis, do daily orders for differentwards in hospital that had seven wards
- I was responsible for preparing and dispensing of prescriptions for the out patients and also handle the clinical queries
- I was also responsible for compilation of a weekly report and presenting it to clinicalmanager at the hospital and do ward rounds from 7H00 to 8H00 daily
- At the time I joined the hospital the Pharmacy was not yet accredited by Pharmacy council, one of my task was to ensure that the Pharmacy complies with the council requirements and I managed to get pharmacy accredited
Non-Executive Director (Trustee) / Chairperson of Clinical Governance Committee - Medshield Medical Scheme - South Africa
(2017-01 - 2018-12)
Deputy Chairperson of the board responsible for the operations of Medshield business and strategic oversight of the organization thereby providing policy guidance to the operational management team.
- Served as Chairperson of the Clinical Governance Committee
- Member of Marketing, Product and Pricing Committee
