Responsible Pharmacist - Pharmacy at SPAR Parklands
(2025-10)
- Providing high standards of pharmaceutical care, accurate and safe dispensing, including generic substitution, and the provision of advice in accordance with the ways of working, good pharmacy practice and within the legal scope of practice as outlined by the South African Pharmacy Council (SAPC)
- Ensuring cohesion, consistency and integration between the store operation, pharmacy and clinic teams
- Ensuring operational viability of the dispensary through sound financial management, focus on core dispensary and clinic targets, management of expenses and proactively taking appropriate action as required
- Efficiently managing and controlling all operational activities of the dispensary, including safe and responsible stock management, shrinkage, general housekeeping and administration in line with merchandising, SAPC regulations and company standards
- Handling the purchasing, acquiring, importing, keeping, possessing, using, releasing, storage, packaging, re-packaging, supplying, or selling of medicines or scheduled substances, or overseeing these activities
Responsible Pharmacist - Richwood Private Pharmacy
(2025-02 - 2025-10)
Reason for Leaving: Company sold
- Management of all operational activities of the dispensary, including safe and responsible stock management, general housekeeping and administration in line with merchandising, SAPC regulations and company standard
- Ensure Schedule 6 medication is locked away, and that the register is maintained and balanced quarterly
- Ensure dispensary and self-medication areas are adequately staffed, and that staff work within their scope of practice
- Accurately interpret scripts and act in a professional and responsible manner, and within the legal requirements in accordance with the SAPC
- Ensure accurate picking/packing/labeling and checking of medication and be aware of common dosages as well as important drug interactions
- Keep abreast of changes in medical aid procedures and requirements for claims and dispensing and explain all medical aid costs to patients
Pharmacist - Dischem Pharmacies
(2024-09 - 2025-01)
Reason for Leaving: Contract Ended
- Signing off and checking of all prescriptions prepared by an assistant or an intern and accepting accountability for the correctness
- The compounding, manipulation, preparation or packaging of any medicine or scheduled substance and advice to any person with regards to the use of medicine
- The purchasing, acquiring, importing, keeping, possessing, using, releasing, storage, packaging, re-packaging, supplying or selling of any medicine or scheduled substance
- Tutoring and/or mentoring of support staff that are registered with the SAPC
- Ensure accurate picking / packing / labelling and checking of medication and be aware of common dosages as well as important drug interactions
- Issuing and providing pharmaceutical services using Unisolv, SAP and E-scripting
- Keep abreast of changes in medical aid procedures and requirements for claims/dispensing and ensure authorization of chronic, HIV and AIDS and oncology medication
- Advise and assist patients at the dispensary, self-medication counter and front-shop
- Follow up with patients regarding script tracking report as requested by the dispensary manager and follow up appointments
- Process all paperwork necessary for the accurate submission of claims to medical aids
- Correct errors on scripts rejected by medical aid
Community Service Pharmacist - Department of Correctional Service
(2023-09 - 2024-08)
Reason for Leaving: Contract ended
- Provision of pharmaceutical care by addressing patients' medicine-related needs and being accountable for meeting those needs
- Stock management & reporting on stock reporting systems
- Evaluation of a patient's medicine-related needs by assessing the indication, safety, and effectiveness of the therapy
- Dispensing any medicine or scheduled substance based on a valid prescription from an authorized prescriber
- Signing off and checking all prescriptions prepared by assistants, ensuring accuracy and accountability
- Manage pharmaceutical services by promoting rational medicines use, pharmacovigilance, antimicrobial stewardship through their local Pharmaceutical and Therapeutics Committees
- Determining patient compliance with therapy and conducting follow-ups to ensure their medicine-related needs are met
- Providing pharmacist-initiated therapy as part of comprehensive pharmaceutical care
Pharmacist Intern - Department of Health
(2022-02 - 2023-02)
Reason for Leaving: Contract Ended
- Provide or perform services within the scope of practice of a pharmacist's assistant (post-basic) under direct personal supervision of a pharmacist
- Conduct the sale of Schedule 1 and Schedule 2 medicines or scheduled substances
- Assist with compounding, manipulation, or preparation of non-sterile or sterile medicines or scheduled substances according to approved formulas and Standard Operating Procedures
- Assist with the manufacturing of non-sterile or sterile medicines or scheduled substances following approved formulas and procedures
- Perform the re-packaging of medicines
- Manage the distribution and control of stock of Schedule 1 to Schedule 6 medicines or scheduled substances
- Sell over-the-counter medicines under the supervision of a pharmacist
- Order medicines and scheduled substances up to and including Schedule 6 based on authorized instructions
- Furnishing information and advice to individuals regarding the use of medicine
In-Service Training - Mediclinic
(2016 - 2018)
Reason for leaving: Practical Hours
- Handling inventory stock by counting inventory items, checking delivery quantities, reviewing medication expirations and ordering additional products
- Receiving, checking and unpacking stock, together with checking orders against invoices
In-Service Training - Kalapeng pharmacy
(2021-01 - 2021-03)
Reason for Leaving: Practical hours
- Maintain customer profiles on the system
- Assist with re-packaging of medicine
- Capture script details accurately, and verify patient's details on the system
- Handling inventory stock by counting inventory items, checking delivery quantities, reviewing medication expirations and ordering additional products
