Pharmacy Technician

Responsibilities
Patient services:
Offer Day to day advice on pharmaceutical issues.
. Supply medication and medical related items to UN staff providing adequate expertise and explanation on consumption and usage directions. Provide clients with pharmacological explanations of drugs warn of risks.
. Prepare and distribute individual first aid medical kits to UN staff and provide administrative support in maintaining the records and statistics on the kits.
Inventory and administration:
. Plan and facilitate an unimpeded supply of drugs, medical supplies, medical consumables, vaccines condoms (male and female) and blood in the mission.
. Maintain and monitor the inventory of the pharmacy.
. Provide support in defining specification of drugs, medical consumables, and medical equipment.
. Coordinate day to day activities of the pharmacy and medical warehouse of the Medical Section.
-Prepare the monthly write-off of expired items, such as drugs and medical consumables, in the pharmacy and warehouse and submit a report documenting the write-offs.

. Maintain and keep up to dale files pertaining to the pharmacy.
. Maintain and secure proper strong conditions of drugs and medical consumables within the pharmacy.
. Inspect all items delivered to the Medical Section.
. Pack and prepare medical supplies and medical consumables for distribution to various sectors as requested.
. Coordinate the transportation of medical items to be dispatched to all sectors.
. Prepare and package drugs, medical supplies and equipment for onward transfer to mission clinics located in different regions within the mission area.
. Plan and facilitate an unimpeded supply of drugs, medical supplies, medical consumables, vaccines condoms (Male and female) and blood in the Mission.
. Report to the Chief Medical Officer for updating a mission list for drugs and consumable, based on generic drugs on regular basis. -Advise on day-to-day pharmaceutical products.
. Prepare pharmaceutical item issued vouchers to clinics and hospitals.
. Check on pharmaceutical issues, medical supplies, drugs, medical consumables, and laboratory agents in the Medical Section.
. Ensure that shelves are clean of the expired drugs and handles the consumption of shortly expiring items. Ensure that medicines are arranged on the shelves and specific bin locations by therapeutic class and alphabetical order by generic name.
. Draft Scope of Requirement for purchasing of medical equipment, consumables and pharmaceuticals.
. Do technical evaluation for medical equipment, consumables and pharmaceuticals.
. Perform other duties as required.