Pharmacy Assistant

Apollo Pharmacy; Baloda Bazar; On-site; INR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Apollo Pharmacy is seeking a Pharmacy Assistant/Pharmacy Aide to support dispensing activities and customer service. You will assist the pharmacist in preparing prescribed medicines, verify items against bills, and help manage stock and stock indents. The role includes counseling patients and ensuring accurate charge entries.

You will handle customer inquiries, coordinate home delivery orders, and assist with cash handling at the billing counter as needed.

Qualifications

• Assist the pharmacist in dispensing drugs according to prescriptions.
• Check medicines against the bill for patient name, items, quantity, expiry.
• Maintain stock and raise indent when needed.
• Counsel patients on health and medicines.

Responsibilities

• Counsel patients/ customers on health and medicine use.
• Maintain good relations with customers and doctors.
• Handle free home delivery orders and follow-up deliveries.
• Respond to drug information queries and manage inbound calls.
• Process payments at the billing counter when required.
• Ensure stock is tallied and daily rack checks are performed.

Skills

Drug dispensing support

Patient counseling

Cash handling

Stock management

Communicating with doctors

Job description

PHARMACY ASSISTANT / PHARMACY AIDE

• Assist the Pharmacist in dispensing drugs according to a prescription issued by the doctor.
• In case the prescribed medicines are not available, arrange the same from the in-house pharmacies for the honor of 100% prescription.
• Substitution of medicines is to be consulted with the doctor.
• Cross check the issuing medicines with the bill concerning patient name, items name, quantity, expiry and acknowledge the bill.
• Checking out the availability of stock in the pharmacy and based on the availability of stock-raising the indent for the stock.

Customer Service

• To counsel the patients /customers on health, the reaction of medicines.
• To maintain good relations with customers/doctors.
• To maintain the free home delivery register and follow-up the medicines deliveries to the customers in time.
• Handle all the inbound calls primarily focusing on drug information, patient counseling/education, and free home delivery orders.
• Also, handle patient queries and issues concerning drug therapy and drug information.
• Handle cash in billing counter as and when required.

Cold Chain Management

• Storing the drugs under proper conditions of refrigeration and security.
• To prepare bills in computer and collect the cash.
• Check quantity, MRP, batch number, and date of expiry of the received items from stores before entering into computer.

Inventory Management & Sales

• To enter stocks in computer and take the printout of receipt from stores (RS) for cross-checking with items issues list from stores based on the stock availability.
• If necessary importing/exporting the stock from nearby pharmacies through BT (Branch Transfers).
• If a stock is not available at near pharmacies, directly communicating with DC – in charge and visiting the DC and collecting the necessary stock with the period based on the emergency.
• To maintain the record for no stock items and follow-up the same.
• Ensure that 100% physical stock is tallied according to category (Tablets, Syrups, Injections, Fluids, Ointments, Liquids, Capsules, Powders, Drops, Surgicals, and Miscellaneous) twice a week.
• Daily rack wise verification of fast-moving items.
• Ensure shift hand-over and take-over is given before leaving the work area.
• Focus on sales and strive to attain the target of the pharmacy.
• Perform any other job assigned by the in-charge as per exigencies of work.

Compensation & Benefits

This job is on company rolls offering competitive pay, benefits and attractive incentives. NOTE: Eligibility for candidates with Non- Pharmacy qualification with relavant Pharmacy Retail experience ONLY.