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- Experience 2 years
- Location Yobe
ROLE PURPOSE:
In compliance with SCI’s standard practices and protocols, ensure good pharmacy distribution practices including storage; supply; distribution; rational use of drugs, to ensure its effectiveness and operational availability in collaboration with the health and logistics team.
In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.
Medication Dispensing:
- Support drug dispensers in primary health facilities by ensuring safe, efficient, and accurate dispensing processes.
- Ensure adherence to standardized dispensing practices, promoting rational drug use in collaboration with the health and nutrition team.
- Good Storage Practices at Health Facility Pharmacies
- Ensure that medicines are stored in an organized manner, adhering to standard guidelines for arrangement and labeling.
- Maintain a clean, pest-free environment in all health facility pharmacies, implementing necessary pest control measures.
- Ensure regular physical inventory checks are done at all the facilities every month.
- Ensure the removal of expired items and proper documentation of these actions.
- Monitor stock cards in health facilities, ensuring they are regularly updated to reflect accurate stock levels.
- Report on items nearing expiration to facilitate prompt action and prevent wastage.
- Responsible for safe disposal of expired drugs and medical supplies, working with the regulatory authority where applicable.
Consumption Monitoring:
- Responsible for handling the ordering of medical products and supplies from SCI-supported facilities in collaboration with the health and nutrition team.
- Responsible for field-based consumption reporting and timely completion, identifying trends and gaps in medication usage.
- Ensure accurate reporting of drug stock movement and consumption.
- Oversee medication use in the field.
Cold Chain Management:
- Maintain the temperature of refrigerators in PHCs and SCs between 2-8°C.
- Ensure strict adherence to the contingency plan in case of cold chain breakdown.
- Ensure the proper packaging procedure for transport in passive cold chain systems.
Capacity Building:
- Provide on-the-job training to drug dispensers/pharmacy technicians, ensuring safe and accurate dispensing processes and patient counseling on prescribed treatment.
Compliance and Quality Control:
- Ensure that high-quality standards of health commodity management are met, including Good Distribution Practices, covering rotation, control, pipeline management, consumption monitoring, and ordering.
- Monitor medication safety across primary health care teams and stabilization centers.
- Responsible for pharmacovigilance in the field.
- Register the pharmacy warehouse with PCN using his/her license.
- Carry out quarterly pharmacy standard scorecard assessment
Skills and Experience:
Essential
- BSc in Pharmacy
- Valid license to practice with minimum of 2 years relevant experience post NYSC
- NYSC or Exemption Certificate
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)
- Work experience in humanitarian settings and international NGO
- Fluency in written and spoken English.
- Willingness to travel within and outside the state
Preferred:
- Strong sense of organization and attention to details.
- Capacity to work in a team and maintain individual workload
Method of Application
Interested and qualified? Go to Save The Children on hcri.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com to apply
