Senior Pharmacist

Rhea Healthcare; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Rhea Healthcare is seeking a skilled pharmacist to ensure the safe and economical delivery of drug treatments across hospital settings. You will dispense medicines, perform accuracy checks, and manage controlled substances in accordance with policy.

You will coordinate with doctors, nurses, and staff to streamline dispensary operations, handle stock, and respond to patient queries while maintaining meticulous records and inventory control.

Qualifications

• Dispense and supply medicines as per prescriptions and hospital policy.
• Maintain compliance with Medicines Ethics and Practice and local safety protocols.
• Carry out clinical/accuracy checking of prescriptions and dispensed medicines.
• Manage receipt, storage, and supply of controlled drugs per policy.
• Handle purchase returns of expired medicines and narcotics records.

Responsibilities

• Liaise with doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to ensure safe and economical delivery of drug treatments.
• Dispense and supply medicines.
• Maintain records and handle narcotic substances.
• Arrange for unavailable medicines from nearby pharmacies.
• Conduct quarterly stocktaking and manage inventory lists.

Skills

Dispensing medicines

Liaison with doctors/nurses

Stock management

Narcotics handling

Patient queries handling

Dispenser software use

Tools

Dispensary software

Job description

• Liaise with doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to ensure the safe, effective, and economical delivery of drug treatments
• Participate in dispensary operations, including clinical and accuracy checking of prescriptions and dispensed medicines
• Ensure compliance with Medicines Ethics and Practice, local policies, risk management, and safety protocols
• Dispense and supply medicines
• Manage receipt, storage, and supply of controlled drugs per hospital policy
• Handle purchase returns of expired medicines
• Maintain records and handle narcotic substances
• Arrange for unavailable medicines from nearby pharmacies
• Hand over cash to the cashier
• Conduct quarterly stocktaking
• Manage receipt of indents and prescription dispensing
• Use dispensary/store systems to generate stock lists and labels
• Order items for departmental use
• Receive, load, and unload goods from wholesalers/manufacturers
• Deliver pharmaceuticals within the pharmacy, wards, and clinical areas
• Handle routine queries from patients, their representatives, public members, and staff, escalating as needed.