Pharmacist - Deputy Supervisor - Dischem Pharmacy Ferngate - Randburg, Gauteng, South Africa
(2026-03)
- Accurate capturing and dispensing of prescriptions, and provision of pharmaceutical care
- Ensuring strategic stock holding and management
- Stock ordering and ensuring availability
- Supervision of pharmacists and pharmacists assistants
- Medical aid claims under the correct benefits
- Financial management - preventing and keeping wastage to a minimum
- Conducting cycle counts and stock take
- Correct checking of drug interactions on prescriptions
- Liaison with medical professionals to ensure optimal treatment outcomes
- Providing excellent customer service
Pharmacist - Clinix Group - Naledi Nkanyezi Private Hospital - Sebokeng, South Africa
(2025-06 - 2026-03)
- Dispensing prescriptions for hospital and retail as per the good pharmacy practise
- Compounding medication for all hospital in-patient prescriptions
- Creating and completing cycles counts and stock take using SAP
- Balancing schedule 5 and 6 drugs, and conducting monthly cycle counts and stock take
- Managing stock by supervising procurement, stock usage, limiting wastage, and correct dispensing
- Preparation and issuing of drugs to hospital wards and patients
- Providing advice on the prescribing, administration and therapeutic outcomes of medication to ensure optimum treatment outcomes
- Liaising with healthcare professionals to provide the best customer service to our patients
- Providing counselling on general health needs to the public, to ensure continued development of public health
Pharmacist - Dischem Pharmacies - Blue Crane Ridge - Alberton, South Africa
(2024-09 - 2025-05)
- Accurately interpreting prescriptions and identifying potential drug-interactions/contraindications
- Patient queries on medical aid authorisations
- Evaluation of a patient's medicine-related needs by determining the indication, safety and effectiveness of the therapy
- Dispensing of any medicine or scheduled substance on the prescription of a person authorised to prescribe medicine
- Adherence to company policies and standard operating procedures
- Signing off and checking of all prescriptions prepared by an assistant or an intern and accepting accountability for the correctness thereof
- The provision of pharmacist-initiated therapy
- Purchasing, storing, re-packaging and selling of scheduled medications
- Ensuring authorisation of HIV, Oncology and chronic medication with medical aid schemes and keeping to medical aid formularies with the patients' informed permission
- Stock management - monitoring stock shelves and soon-to-expire medications to be dispensed at first priority to minimise financial wastage
- Supervising pharmacists' assistants and reporting to the dispensary manager
- Stock taking to keep track of the dispensary's medicine usage and investigate discrepancies
- Pre-packaging blister packs
- The compounding, manipulation, preparation or packaging of any medicine or scheduled substance, or the supervision thereof
- Maintaining good relationships with customers and patients
- Providing education and training to staff and the public on compliance to treatment
- Advocating Antimicrobial Stewardship
- Managing schedule 5 and 6 medicines and registers
- Monitoring record keeping
- Supervising cash up procedures and managing float
- Providing eduction and learning to pharmacist assistants, learners and interns
Locum Pharmacist - Connerstone Pharmacy (Retail) - Morningside, South Africa
(2024-05 - 2024-09)
- Dispensing prescriptions according to pharmaceutical policies and procedures
- Custodian for the management of schedule 5 and 6 drugs
- Supervising pharmacist assistants
- Liaison with medical aid schemes to ensure optimal treatment for patients
- Patient counselling on drugs contraindications and interactions
- Ensuring safe and rational use of medicines
- Maintaining good relationships with doctors, patients, and essential staff
- Advising prescribing doctors on drug alternatives
Locum Pharmacist - Netcare Sunward Park Hospital - Boksburg, South Africa
(2024-08-21 - 2024-08-29)
- Provision of medications to patients in a safe and responsible manner
- Patient counselling on the safe and rational use of medicines
- Recommending alternative medicines to doctors and patients
Community Service Pharmacist - Eastern Cape Department Of Health - Dimbaza Community Healthcare Centre - Dimbaza, Eastern Cape, South Africa
(2023-01 - 2023-12)
- Stock distribution to wards and medicine control
- Dispensing prescriptions according to EML, GPP and pharmaceutical policies
- Monitoring treatment outcomes and medicine adherence
- Providing medicines and advice to maternity clinic for family planning and mother-child healthcare
- Issuing stock to wards and updates on out-of-stock medications and alternatives
- Supervising pharmacist assistants and interns
- Keeping up with hospital policies and procedures
- Continuing professional development in the pharmaceutical field
- Maintaining effective communication with doctors and staff to enhance team work
- Control of schedule 5 and 6 registers
- Stock management: ordering and receiving, reducing expired stock
- Stock take and cycle counts
- Supervising and delegating tasks to pharmacist assistants and students
- Quarterly reports on pharmacovigilance and medicine related problems
- Reducing stock wastage
- Conducting quarterly training on hospital treatment guidelines
- Providing pharmaceutical advice on Multi-drug resistant TB patients
- RxSolutions and dispensary functions
- Expired stock disposal
Pharmacist Intern - Medipost Courier Pharmacy And Wholesale - Gezina, Pretoria, South Africa
(2022-01 - 2022-12)
- Accurate capturing and claiming of prescriptions on the Medipost App System
- Mixing topical creams under sterile conditions
- Authorising medication with medical aid schemes
- Interacting with healthcare professionals to ensure the best therapeutic outcomes
- Promptly attending to personal action diaries
- Attending to emails and phone calls in a professional manner
- Resolving status rejections
- Completing patient profiles accurately, as per SOP's
- Completing daily allocated profiles
- Making call attempts to patients as per SLA and SOP's
- Writing detailed action diaries
- Patient counselling on the safe and rational use of medicines
