Dispenser Assistant

Job Description

Title: Dispenser Assistant

Company Name: International Rescue Committee (IRC)

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Teknaf, Ukhia)

Employment Status: Full-time, Contractual

Job Context:
∎ The Dispenser Assistant is a member of the IRC health team and will be responsible for supporting the implementation of the IRCs emergency and primary healthcare activities in the Rohingya Refugee Camp. (S)He will primarily be responsible to assist dispensing medicines to patients and ensuring the implementation of medical stock recording, tracking, and management systems.
∎ The position is responsible for overseeing and implementing the following specific activities:
∎ Day to day dispensing of drugs at the health facility/mobile clinic.
∎ Ensuring appropriate storage of medical drugs, equipment and supplies.

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Dispense medicines to all patients according to the doctor’s prescription.
∎ Provide counselling to patients regarding the proper usage of prescribed medications.
∎ Routinely monitor the expiry dates of medicines; those medicines with short expiry dates will be used first before they become expired.
∎ Keep the drug store clean and store the medicine appropriately with up to date bin cards, in order to be checked easily and issued properly.
∎ Monitor and ensure optimum room temperatures are maintained and charting room temperatures regularly.
∎ Prevent physical damage and contamination of drugs.
∎ Work with other health staff to ensure clinic areas are appropriately stocked with essential equipment and supplies.
∎ Work with relevant staff to ensure prompt requesting of medical drugs and supplies.
∎ With Supports from Clinical Supervisors and Dispenser, perform IRC pharmacy inventory management including inventory check using IRC standard inventory tools.

Additional Requirements:
∎ Experience with drug dispensing will be preferred.
∎ Required to be a great teammate with excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work under pressure in a stressful environment, displaying patience, compassion and diplomacy.
∎ Ability to live in challenging conditions and ability to work under difficult, high pressure situations.

Salary: Tk. 25725 (Monthly)

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Mobile bill, Weekly 2 holidays, Insurance, Gratuity
∎ 2 bonuses in a year equivalent to two basic salaries

Application Deadline: June 21, 2020

Company Information:
∎ International Rescue Committee (IRC)
∎ Address : Apartment A4, 4th Floor, Navana Miru, House 4, Road 96, Gulshan 2, Dhaka
∎ Web : https://www.rescue.org/
∎ Business : The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover and gain control of their future. In more than 40 countries and in 26 U.S. cities, our dedicated teams provide clean water, shelter, health care, education, protection and empowerment support to refugees and displaced people. The International Rescue Committee (IRC) Founded in 1933. David Miliband, President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, is a former Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom.

Category: NGO/Development

Read Before Apply: Standard of Professional ConductIRC and IRC employees are required to abide by the values and principles outlined in the IRC Way – Code of Conduct which are Integrity, Service, and Accountability. In accordance with these values, IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Harassment-Free Workplace, Fiscal Integrity, Anti-Retaliation, Combating Trafficking in Persons and several others. Gender Equality & Equal OpportunityWe are committed to narrowing the gender gap in leadership positions. We offer generous benefits that provide an enabling environment for women to participate in our workforce including parental leave, gender-sensitive security protocols and other supportive benefits and allowances. We welcome and strongly encourage qualified female professionals to apply.We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Are you ready to join the most dynamic team?