Pharmacist

Medexpress Drugstore; Los Baños; On-site; PHP 260,000 - 380,000; Full time

Job summary

Medexpress Drugstore in Laguna (Los Baños) is seeking a pharmacist to dispense medications and provide patient counseling. You will manage patient profiles, review medication histories, and enroll patients in a compliance program, ensuring accuracy and safety in every prescription.

You will maintain stock, handle drug interactions, and support cashiering duties as needed while upholding government regulations and safety protocols.

Qualifications

• Dispense medications and provide patient counseling.
• Enrol patients to patient compliance program and review medication history.

Responsibilities

• Dispense medication and supplies to patients and customers.
• Provide professional pharmacy services including counseling and drug interaction review.
• Record prescriptions and manage profiles in PharmaPOS.
• Ensure storage, handling, and stock management of drugs and supplies.
• Maintain filing of prescriptions and ensure compliance with regulations.
• Assist cashiering duties and post sales in the POS when needed.
• Ensure safety and quality of drugs and proper disposal of expired stock.

Skills

Counselling

Pharmacy services

Tools

PharmaPOS

Job description

About the Job

Duties and responsibilities:

• Dispense medication and supplies to patients and other Customers.
• Provides professional pharmacy services: o Performs patient and medication counselling. o Prepares daily dose pack. o Reviews Medication history profile. o Enrolls patients to patient compliance program. o Performs initial drug interaction review as requested by the patient. o Reports adverse drug reactions.
• Performs order taker functions: o Explains to the patients the MEDEXPRESS SERVICES o Creates profile of walk-in patients/Customer in the PharmaPOS and encodes patients’ prescription to update patient/customers medication record and profile. o Recommends generically equivalent products to the patient/Customer when the brand prescribed or requested is unavailable or if the patients request for a cost-effective alternative. o Attend to patient/Customers inquiries and requests regarding medicine.
• Maintains Organized filing of prescriptions.
• Dispenses and records of prescription of senior citizen and people with disability according to the existing department of health regulations.
• Ensure the quality of the drug through correct handling and storage, at all times and at any given circumstances.
• Handles patients/customer medicine complaint in proper and polite way.
• Checking the prescription and the Drugs/medicine at the counter prior dispensing to ensure the correctness, completeness, and accuracy of the medicine.
• Ensures the correctness and completeness of all the Drugs/Medicine that are for Delivery.
• Performs reconstitution and compounding of prescriptions when required and maintains the compounding area Clean, Neat and orderly.
• Monitors and reports all expiring stocks, (drugs and Medicines) 6 months before the stated date.
• Conduct inventory and request a stock to replenish the lacking or out of stocks medicine and drugs.
• Maintains the Cleanliness and arranges the medicine and drugs on the shelves according to the prescribe arrangement and area.
• Performs cashiering functions in the absence of an order taker or as scheduled by the branch supervisor. o Post all sales transactions in the POS. o During cashier’s cut-off, Conducts reconciliation of Cash on hand against the cash sales in the system. o At the end of the day, process settlement of all credit card and supplier program terminals. o Arrange all transaction documents accordingly and endorse to branch supervisor at the end of the shift.
• Verifies and acknowledges the medications returned by patients/customers in accordance with the existing Returned Goods Policy.
• Ensures Compliance with all applicable government rules and regulations.
• Ensures that the required safekeeping of dangerous drugs mandated by PDEA is implemented properly.