Pharmacist Assistant
Announcement of vacancy for: Pharmacist Assistant
Function Title: Pharmacist Assistant (Full Time 40 hours: Monday to Friday)
Directly Accountable to: Revolving Drug Fund Manager
Place in the organization: You will be a Team Member in the Revolving Drug Fund Department. You also work with colleagues in other departments at our Phnom Penh office.
Remuneration: Salary will be negotiated based on experience. Please submit the expected salary with your CV.
Background: Since 2005, Cambodian NGO, MoPoTsyo Patient Information Centre is reaching more and more diabetes and high blood pressure patients with services in public hospitals, health centers and communities through Peer Educator Networks: More than 200 trained diabetes patients in 28 operational districts in 12 provinces are volunteering as Peer Educators who help with counseling and access to services. They help facilitate the public services being used by more than 30,000 patients with Diabetes and Hypertension who are members of MoPoTsyo. Through small contributions, the patients finance the Revolving Drug Fund (RDF), that gives them access to their daily medication, close to where they live. These medicines and supplies pass through MoPoTsyo’s stocks. They are accounted for by our not-for-profit Cambodian NGO working in close cooperation with Ministry of Health and other government counterparts to combine all efforts in combating the growing burden of chronic Non-Communicable Diseases. For more background, see https://www.mopotsyo.org.
The pharmacy assistant with administrative duties will support the pharmacist and ensure smooth operations across multiple contractual pharmacies. This role is crucial in maintaining inventory control, coordinating with contracted pharmacies, assisting with administrative tasks, and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. The assistant will also work to streamline operations and enhance the quality of service provided to customers
Objectives of the Role
The main objectives of the pharmacy assistant’s role will include:
- Assisting in managing administrative functions across contracted pharmacies.
- Facilitating coordination contractual pharmacies with MoPoTyso
- To maintain efficient pharmacy operations, including pharmacies’ stock management and order coordination.
- To ensure compliance with terms of contractual agreements between pharmacies and MoPoTsyo
Tasks and responsibilities:
- Give technical advice to the Supply Chain manager in how to store and distribute medicine correctly, make sure the Good Storage Practice policy of MoPoTsyo is implemented correctly.
- Communicate with pharmacies to ensure compliance with the terms of contractual
- Ensure the quantity and quality of medicines are correct with the purchase order from the pharmacy before delivery.
- Follow up with pharmacies and peers to make sure they get the delivery of medicine. collect and send all support documents back to HQ.
- Assist manager to provinces when distributing rewards and installing new pharmacies.
- Take medicine sample to National Laboratory for testing and bring back the record of result.
- Make sure every lot number of medicines are tested at National Laboratory
- Training New Peer
- Compliance with pharmaceutical laws and contract agreements.
Administrative Support:
- Provide general administrative support to the pharmacies including maintaining records, filing documents, and managing communications.
- Help with managing billing, invoicing, and financial documentation related to contracted pharmacies.
- Regularly updated inventory reports for each contracted pharmacy
- Efficient coordination of medication orders and deliveries.
- Other task assigned by line manager and acting director
Requirements:
- Pharmacist / freshly graduated in pharmacy are welcome
- Work Experience Minimum 1 years
- Khmer national, good working knowledge of Khmer and English.
- Good knowledge of using computer (MS Word, Excel)
- Being an honest, respectable, flexible, and adaptable person.
- Can work well with people who have little formal education.
- Willingness and able to travel about once per month to a province to visit a contracted pharmacy.
- Able to analyze problems and come up with ideas for solutions.
- Nurture positive relationships with suppliers and provide customer service as needed.
- Good interpersonal skills to work with management and staff at all levels.
Additional: Persons with Diabetes or other chronic Noncommunicable disease and are encouraged to apply.
If you are interested, please download the application form here and submit it to mopotsyo@gmail.com/ maurits@mopotsyo.org with copy to kimsin.Chann@mopotsyo.org before 09 Oct 2024/17:00.