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Pharmacist -Tripoli (Tripoli with a regular travel to field locations).

Position Title: Pharmacist.

Position Reports to: Senior Pharmacist.

Field Site: Tripoli (with a regular travel to field locations)

Date Needed: 1st, March 2020.

Essential Responsibilities:

Tasks include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Organizes, together with the field team, the stock for drugs and medical materials according to IMC standards (by category, alphabetical order, international nonproprietary name…) and is in charge of the general supervision of it (regular check of the expiry date, check of the proper filling in of stock cards etc.).
  
• Ensure all Stock Card are filled and updated.
  
• Prepare consumption sheet for each team every day to register the consumption of Drugs.
  
• Provide Mentoring to pharmacists at Primary Health Care Centers targeted by IMC-GIZ project of support to Primary Health Care sector, through shadowing and instructing MOH-pharmacists about best practices and proper ways of handling medications and documentation of medications stock and consumption.
  
• Provide education lectures to the pharmacists of PHCCs targeted by IMC-GIZ project to build their capacity and to orient them about updates and modern practices in the field of pharmaceuticals at the PHC level.
  
• Send the team every morning with medicine boxes and consumption sheet and receive them at the end of the day.
  
• Weekly inventory of drug boxes to make sure consumption sheet matching with quantity in boxes.
  
• Ensure QC to items for ordered for the project: Elaborates the reception procedure of the orders (boxes according to packing list, items according to the order, cold chain products, damages…).
  
• Ensures that the consumption follow-up database is updated.
  
• Provides pharmacological information by answering questions and requests of health care team.
  
• Provide pharmacy services in accordance with licensing regulations: provide independent patient counseling relating to pharmaceuticals.
  
• Verifies accuracy of counts, paperwork and labels.
  
• Completes daily cycle counts.
  
• Keeps warehouse neat, orderly, and organized.
  
• Active daily and weekly reporting of stock balance.
  
• Signing reception notes and waybill after physical counting of any medications received in the warehouse.
  
• Apply standard practices and techniques in appropriate situations, correlate data, recognize discrepancies in results and follow operations through a series of related detailed steps or processes.
  
• Collaborate with other team members to accomplish organization goals; provide ideas to improve efficiency at group level.
  
• Investigate and evaluate practical applicability of potential changes to various pharmacy unit activities.
  
• Prepares medications by reviewing and interpreting physician orders; detecting therapeutic incompatibilities.
  
• Dispenses medications by compounding, packaging, and labeling pharmaceuticals.
  
• Controls medications by monitoring drug therapies; advising interventions.
  
• Follow all relevant safety, quality and environmental control procedures and instructions so that personal safety/the safety of others is not jeopardized and a minimum level of product/service quality and environmental impact can be guaranteed.
  
• Provides pharmacological information by answering questions and requests of health care team.
  
• Develops medical team staff’s pharmacological knowledge by participating in group meetings.
  
• Complies with state and federal drug laws as regulated by the state board of pharmacy, the drug enforcement administration, and the food and drug administration.
  
• Protects patients and staff by adhering to infection-control protocols.
  
• Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
  
• Organizes and manages a quarantine area for damaged/expired items or batch recall procedures (according to batch numbers identification).
  
• Maintains pharmacological knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
  
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

Qualifications & Requirements:

• Bachelor degree or diploma in pharmacology.
• At least three years of experience as pharmacist.
  
• Experience with remote management and communication.
  
• Ability and flexibility to travel to remote areas frequently.
• Demonstrates a high degree of self-motivation.
  
• Has good communication skills and the capacity to comprehends presentations, meetings, and discussions concerning health issues.
• Able to work independently with minimal supervision.
  
• Able to provide feedback/reports regarding work-related activities.
  
• Capacity to work as member of a team.
  
• High integrity.
  
• Report writing skills.
  
• Networking and influencing skills.
  
• Highly reliable and dependable.
  
• Analyzing Information, Administering Medication, Judgment, Verbal Communication, FDA Health Regulations, Pharmacology, Managing Processes, Legal Compliance, Productivity, Quality Focus, Attention to Detail.
  
• Previous working experience with NGO/INGOs will be an asset.

Language Skills:

English and Arabic.

Computer Skills:

Good user of windows, Microsoft office and familiar with sending and receiving Emails.

Email your CV and Cover letter to libya-recruitment@internationalmedicalcorps.org indicating in the subject the position. Very Important, write the position title in the email subject before submitting.