Pharmacist/Assistant Pharmacist

Key Responsibilities

  • Dispense prescription medications to patients and offer expertise in the safe use of prescriptions;
  • Conduct health and wellness screenings, provide immunizations, oversee the medications given to clients and provide advice on healthy lifestyles;
  • Verifying instructions from physicians on the proper amounts of medication to give to clients;
  • Check whether prescriptions will interact negatively with other drugs that a client is taking or any medical conditions the clients has
  • Instruct patients on how and when to take a prescribed medicine and inform them about potential side effects from taking the medicine
  • Give flu shots and, in most states, other vaccinations
  • Advise clients about general health topics, such as diet, exercise, and managing stress, and on other issues, such as what equipment or supplies would be best to treat a health problem;
  • Complete insurance forms and work with insurance companies to ensure that clients get the medicines they need;
  • Oversee the work of pharmacy technicians and pharmacists in training (interns).
  • Organize inventory and alert pharmacists to any shortages of medications or supplies (Assistant Pharmacist)
  • Accept payment for prescriptions and process insurance claims (Assistant Pharmacist)
  • Enter clients/customer information, including any prescriptions taken, into a computer system and answer phone calls from customers

Academic qualification

  • Bachelor of Pharmacy (for Pharmacist)/Diploma in Pharmacy (Assistant Pharmacist) 
Experience and competencies
  • Must be able to evaluate a patient's needs and the prescriber's orders, and have extensive knowledge of the effects and appropriate circumstances for giving out a specific medication.
  • Skill on how to take medicine, for example, and what its side effects are and also guide pharmacy technicians and interns.
  • Computer skills in order to use any electronic health record (EHR);
  • Capable to find the information that they need to make decisions about what medications are appropriate for each patient, because improper use of medication can pose serious health risks.
  • To run a retail pharmacy—must have good managerial skills, including the ability to manage inventory and oversee a staff;
  • Skill on inventory management to run Pharmacy
  • Age limit: 28-40 years (Pharmacist)/22-35 years (Assistant Pharmacist)

Salary:

  • Negotiable

Job Location

  • Dhanmondi, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Please send your CV with cover letter to ewvm1234@gmail.com or Managing Director, EW VM Health Bangladesh Ltd., Corporate Office: Sima Blossom (11th Floor), H#3, R#16, Dhanmondi, Dhaka-1205, Bangladesh.

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Application Deadline: 10th February 2019