PHARMACIST – FutureCare Alliance Inc.

Key Responsibilities

• Dispense medications as prescribed by doctors and other medical professionals.
• Review prescriptions to ensure accuracy and to evaluate their suitability for the patient.
• Provide information/advice about drugs, their side effects, correct dosage, and proper storage.
• Provide other health advice such as guidance on avoiding practices harmful to one’s health.
• Organize the pharmacy efficiently to make the identification of products easier and faster.
• Maintain full control over delivering, stocking and labelling medicine and other products and monitor their condition to prevent expiration or deterioration.
• Ensure that expired, damaged, or recalled drugs are segregated, maintained and labelled as per regulatory requirements.
• Develop and maintain policies and standard operating procedures for pharmacy operations.
• Ensure that all licenses and certifications are kept up to date and renewed as required.
• Keep accurate records including but not limited to pharmacy files, patient records, inventories, registry of poisons, narcotics, or controlled drugs.
• Plan, implement and maintain procedures for mixing, packaging, and labelling pharmaceuticals to ensure they meet legal requirements.
• Assess the identity, strength, or purity of medications.
• Liaise with the procurement team on the ordering and purchasing of pharmaceutical supplies, medical supplies, or drugs.
• Ensure that adequate stock levels are maintained at all times.
• Analyse prescribing trends to monitor patient compliance and to prevent excessive usage or harmful interactions.
• Advise patients on medication brands, medical equipment, or healthcare supplies.
• Coordinate and liaise with internal parties to support intercompany activities.
• Coordinate and liaise with external parties like regulators or government authorities when required.
• Support and ensure compliance with all regulatory filing requirements to maintain the Company’s compliance.
• Assist in new processes and system implementation if/when required.
• Keeping informed about current legislation relating to the pharmaceutical industry.
• Stay up to date with emerging trends in the pharmaceutical and OTC retail industries.
• Manage the performance of team members by assigning responsibilities, scheduling team members to support various activities, setting goals, observing their performances, providing feedback, and by giving recognition.
• Monitor and ensure timely completion of all required training programs and provide coaching for all the team members within the department.
• Address issues and discipline team members if/when necessary
• Promote teamwork and motivate team members by setting expectations, monitoring results, and showing enthusiasm, and through vision sharing.
• Protect organization’s value by always keeping information confidential.
• Ensure total compliance with all corporate policies and consistently treat all team members fairly, while maintaining respectful relationships with coworkers.
• Communicate regularly with the team members through one-on-one discussions, answering questions, group meetings, soliciting input, and through open communication between the management and non-management team members.
• Complete any special assignments or other tasks as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in pharmacy
• Must be licensed with the Pharmacy Council of Guyana
• 3+ years of senior-level community pharmacist experience.
• Advanced level knowledge of Microsoft Office primarily Excel, Word, and Outlook.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Self-starter and capable of operating with minimal supervision.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Excellent organizational and analytical skills, and ability to multi-task.
• High level of integrity and compassion
• Willingness to work flexible schedule, including extended days, holidays, evenings, and weekend hours.
• Ability to work in a start-up environment.
• Be able to work both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment completing objectives efficiently with a sense of responsibility.

How to Apply