Dispenser

Requirements • Diploma in Pharmacy Technology. • Registration with the Uganda Allied Health Professionals Council • At least 1 year experience in dispensing. • Undertakes the preparation, packaging, labelling and dispensing of drugs against a validated prescription or drugs/sundries order, working to national standards and in accordance with C-CARE procedures, in an accurate and timely manner • Prepare documentation and labels for all products, in accordance with C-CARE standard operating procedures • Receive and evaluate prescriptions / orders from patients and / or hospital staff, against agreed departmental protocols • Ensure that relevant details recorded on prescriptions comply with all legal requirements and liaise with medical and nursing staff as necessary • Ensure that all medicines dispensed are checked against the prescription and check with the prescribing doctor; whenever there is doubt about the appropriateness of the medication, or about the doze or labelling instructions • Communicate to patients regarding treatments and to accurately pass on information to other members of the team, regarding patient treatments