Dispenser - Host Community
Job Description
Title: Dispenser - Host Community
Company Name: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Vacancy: Not specific
Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Teknaf)
Employment Status: Full-time, Contractual
Educational Requirements:
∎ Diploma/ Bachelor's in pharmacy and trained as a Dispenser
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 1 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ The Pharmacy Dispenser is a member of the IRC health team and will be responsible for supporting the implementation of the IRCs healthcare activities in the Host Community. (S)He will primarily be responsible for dispensing medicines to patients and ensuring the implementation of medical stock recording, tracking, and management systems.
∎ The Pharmacy Dispenser is responsible for overseeing and implementing the following specific activities:
∎ Day to day dispensing of drugs at the health facility.
∎ Ensuring appropriate storage of medical drugs, equipment and supplies.
∎ Maintaining up to date inventories and completing timely requests and reports.
∎ Department: Health
∎ Work Location: Hnila Health Sub Center
∎ Line Manager: Project Officer - Host Community
∎ Contract Length: December 31, 2020 (with possibility of extension)
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Pharmaceutical Management:
∎ 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.
∎ Ensure all stock related reports and inventories are completed.
∎ Notify the doctor in-charge of the drug stock levels to ensure no stock outs.
∎ Work with other health staff to ensure clinic areas are appropriately stocked with essential equipment and supplies.
∎ Ensure regular inventory and consumption tracking of medical drugs and supplies.
∎ Work with relevant staff to ensure prompt requesting of medical drugs and supplies.
∎ Staff Supervision & Development:
∎ Maintain open and professional relations with team members, promoting a strong team spirit and provide guidance to enable staff to successfully perform in their position
∎ Other Duties:
∎ Consistently and proactively monitor/assess the safety and security of the team; promptly reporting concerns or incidents to IRC management and liaising with community leaders and other external parties as required to maintain/enhance the security environment for IRC programs.
∎ Other reasonable duties as assigned by the supervisor to enable and develop IRC programs.
Additional Requirements:
∎ 1 to 2 years of experience with drug dispensing.
∎ Good mathematical skills.
∎ Ability and flexibility to understand the cultural and political environment and to work well with the local health representatives.
∎ Skills to provide sensitive and appropriate medical counselling.
∎ Excellent communication skills.
∎ Must be a team player with excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work under pressure in a stressful environment, displaying patience, compassion and diplomacy.
∎ Must be able to and willing to assist with carrying patients on stretchers and carrying equipment if necessary.
∎ Ability to be innovative, flexible, and adaptive.
∎ Ability to live in challenging conditions and ability to work under difficult, high pressure situations.
Salary: Tk. 47250 (Monthly)
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Mobile bill, Insurance, Gratuity
∎ Two (2) bonuses in a year equivalent to two (2) basic salaries (not related to festival)
Application Deadline: 17 Oct 2020
Company Information:
∎ 11 Oct 2020
∎ 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: Medical/Pharma
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?
