Partners in Health Pharmacist Job Vacancy

Position
Description Overview:

Provide
technical support to the clinical team in pharmaceutical management,
capacity building, stock ordering management and clinical care.
Participate
in and contribute to team initiatives at a cross site level.

Responsibilities
and Duties:

Support
ongoing development of APZU Pharmacy team by providing management and
supervision to Pharmacy Technicians, Assistants, Attendants and other
support staff throughout MoH/PIH Pharmacies, and other satellite Pharmacy
sites.
Ensure
accurate medical consumption data is available from all end users, and
supporting the medical team in making accurate medical forecasts to
facilitate the international medical order process as per the routine
schedule.
Provide
standards and advice to APZU Medical team in Clinical Pharmacy, including
the following:

Treatment
protocol development
Clinical
Formulary management
Administration
and prescribing guidance
Dispensing
protocols

Work
collaboratively with the MoH Pharmacy Team, supporting internal weekly
orders, monthly physical inventories, and the district wide Central
Medical Stores’ order.
Work
with Operations Team to provide technical advice and technical sign off on
pharmaceutical procurement; including supplier assessments and selection,
and participates in the local procurement committee when needed.
Work
with PIH Warehouse Team to ensure medications are always appropriately
stored with respect to cold chain, safe storage etc. and participates in
clinical inventory when needed.
Implement
minimum standards for pharmaceutical storage across all health facilities
across Neno District and conducts quarterly supervision visits to each
health centre.
Ensure
compliance with international, local and PIH standards and collaborating
with Pharmacy Staff to develop tools for safe storage, management and
dispensing of controlled drugs e.g.:

Rolling
out the use of PIH/MoH Controlled Drugs registers at all facilities’
stocking controlled drugs.
Developing
dispensing standards for morphine suspension use within the Palliative
Care setting.

Work
with PIH Chronic Disease lead to ensure zero stock out days of chronic
care medications across PIH Integrated Chronic Care (IC3) clinic,
Lead
training and education sessions for Non-Communicable Disease staff on
pharmaceutical aspects of care like inhaler technique training, and when
applicable roll out the PIH Electronic Dispensing application.
Work
with primary health care staff at Dambe Health Centre to enhance existing
pharmacy services, rolling out supervised first dosing of antimalarial
medications, tracking of drug consumption to the end user and implementing
dispensing protocols.
Exercise
good judgment and excellent routine communication with APZU clinical
leadership, by highlighting concerning trends in consumption or
pharmaceutical use; identifying budget or procedural concerns related to
pharmaceuticals and consumables; and supporting the clinical and
operations teams to implement and enforce best practices around clinical
products.
Build
and maintaining positive relationships with all members of staff, and
contacts within and outside of the organization
Represent
PIH/APZU at relevant meetings at the local, district and national level
when assigned.
Collaborat
with International Pharmacy Team on cross site projects as needed from
time to time

Required
Qualifications, Experience and Expertise:

BSc.
Degree in Pharmacy
High
ethical and professional standards to patients and employees
If
Malawian, active registration with the Pharmacy, Medicines and Poisons
Board of Malawi by the time of the agreed to job start date. If non
Malawian, active registration with a body of equal nature as the Pharmacy,
Medicines and Poisons Board of Malawi by the time of the agreed to job
start date.
Minimum
of three years’ experience in an extensive Pharmacy setup
Deep
knowledge on drugs, medical procedures and therapies
Interest
in social medicine and health inequalities required
Excellent
verbal and written communication skills
Ability
to work independently
High
level of initiative
Ability
to avoid all dual relationships with patients (any personal, financial,
business, social or sexual relationship or other activity outside the
context of the traditional doctor-patient relationship).

ORGANIZATIONAL
PROFILE:

Partners
In Health (PIH) is a non-profit organization based in Boston, Massachusetts,
USA, whose mission is to provide a preferential option for the poor in health
care. Through service delivery, training, advocacy and research, PIH works
globally to bring the benefits of modern science to those most in need and to
serve as an antidote to despair. PIH has programs in Haiti, Peru, Mexico,
Russia, Rwanda, Lesotho, Malawi, Burundi, Kazakhstan, the Dominican Republic,
and Boston.

PIH
began working in Malawi in 2007, where today we support the Ministry of Health
(MOH) to serve a catchment area of about 165,000 people through 11 health
centres and two hospitals in partnership with our sister organizations. Abwenzi
Pa Za Umoyo (APZU) is in Neno District and we seek to recruit suitably
qualified and experienced candidates for the following positions:

How
to apply:

Interested
candidates are required to Click here to apply.

Closing
date: 09 Nov 2018