Quality Assurance Pharmacist x 7

To ensure timely and accurate Quality Assurance of work from a status 77, 78 & 84 to a status 85.

Primary purpose of the job includes but not limited to:

• The QA pharmacist is responsible for the service delivery and quality assurance of all parcels to be delivered to the patient by Medipost.
• The pharmacist will be responsible for checking and assuring a final check on all quantities, dosages, directions, therapeutic validation, storage conditions as well as correct medication issued to the patient. This will include, but not be limited to chronic medication, Oncology medication, specialized medication items and acute items.
• The QA pharmacist will ensure that special requests and instructions from patients are adhered to while ensuring GPP compliance.
• The QA pharmacist will be responsible for any additional operational required role such as assisting with compliance related roles including housekeeping, pest control in the pharmacy, route and box validations, schedule 6 control, medication destruction etc.
• Duties may include assisting with SOP updates and training as well as tutoring and mentoring assistants.
• Quality assurance is of essence while quantity output will also play a key factor in timely delivery of medication to our patients, therefore the pharmacist will have to be expected to prioritize work according to urgency and assist in minimizing time wasting factors in the working environment.
• Ensure extra added quality by checking:
• Labels are applied neatly,
• Overall presentation of medicine is professional and the content is accurate
• Reporting any challenges that influence the operations to the supervisor or line manager:
• Network errors e.g. slow printing of documents or inability to connect to the network.
• Any other task as requested by line manager within the employee's scope of employment.
• Assisting the Oncology Department with QA tasks,
• Assisting the Fine Picking Department,
• Assisting the Pre-Dispensing Department,
• Assisting the Walk-In Centre or the Order Processing Clusters with blind checking.
• Partaking in the yearly stock take
• Primarily involved in but not restricted to the Quality Assurance checks of all schedule six prescriptions,
• Ensuring all dispensed parcels are accompanied by an original, valid prescription,
• Mixing of morphine preparations,
• Balancing the schedule six book,
• Ensuring sufficient stock is kept in the schedule six cupboard,
• Ensuring the schedule six cupboard is kept locked when not attended,
• Liaising with the Schedule Six department.
• Primarily involved with but not restricted to phase one dispensing activities of all the Production staff's medicine orders.
• Receive emails directed to the distribution list,
• Investigate patient queries that relates to the Production Department,
• Work closely with the CCTV officer to determine the validity patient queries,
• Creates replacement parcels or denies replacement authorisation requests.

• Strictly complying to the company's Time and Attendance policy,
• Working back hours owed by the end of the month,
• Timeously informing the Line Manager in the event of late or non-arrival,
• Not exceeding the lunch hour,
• Booking planned leave in advance,
• Supplying the Line Manager with accurately completed leave and overtime documents.

• Grade 12
• Registered as Pharmacist with the SAPC

• 1-2 years experience in a Pharmacy Environment

• Prioritising
• Accuracy
• Deadline orientated
• Neatness

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