Job Title: Pharmacist – Regions (10 Job Opportunities)
Organisation: National Medical Stores (NMS)
Duty Station: Entebbe, Uganda
Job Ref No. NMS/2023/30
Reports to: Senior Pharmacist Regions
About US:
National Medical Stores is an autonomous Corporation that was established by an Act of Parliament in 1993. Our mandate is to Procure, Store and Distribute medicines and other medical supplies to health facilities.
Job Summary: The Pharmacist – Regions will provide technical support in the management of Essential Medicines and Health Supplies (EMHS) in all health facilities in regions.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Support Supervision of Health Facilities by ensuring compliance with SOPs for management and use of Essential Medicines and Health Supplies.
- Build capacity of Health Facilities through execution of quality improvement programs, including trainings, workshops, on-site technical assistance and specific, focused interventions including the Medicines and Therapeutics Committees program, Needs Analysis, Quantification and Procurement Planning Program and other interventions.
- Working in conjunction with the Senior Pharmacist – Regions (SP-R), develop technical documents, abstracts, presentations, and other reports documenting the findings related to the management of Essential Medicines and Health Supplies at Health Facilities.
- Support the SP-R to maintain continuous dialogue on matters relating to Health Facility quality improvement programs to relevant Stakeholders in the assigned NMS Region.
- With support from the Monitoring and Evaluation Section, and in conjunction with the SP-R, monitor, evaluate and report progress of Health Facility quality improvement programs against set objectives and recommend revisions as necessary.
- Identify any risks noted during execution of duties and formally report to the immediate supervisor.
- Any other duties that may be assigned by the supervisor
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant must hold a Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy.
- Should be a member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Uganda and registered by the Pharmacy Board.
- A valid Driver’s license shall be an added advantage.
- A minimum of four years of working experience in a related field. with at least 2 years’ experience at supervisory level.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Stakeholder Management
- Negotiation
- Problem solving
- Knowledge of the national healthcare network, pharmaceutical products storage and distribution
- Customer relationship management
How to Apply:
All interested applicants should submit an Online Application. Please scan your academic qualifications: Degree or diploma qualifications, Curriculum Vitae, Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education, Uganda Certificate of Education, Membership to the professional body and other relevant academic documents and National Identity Card (both faces), and submit them online: careers.nms.go.ug. Failure to attach any of the listed required documents shall lead to automatic disqualification of the applicant.
The application letter should be addressed as below and should be signed, scanned and sent online:
The Chief Human Resource and Administration Officer,
National Medical Stores,
P.O Box 16, Entebbe,
Kajjansi Town Council, Uganda.
Note:
- Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If you don’t hear from us, one month from the date of closure of receipt of applications, consider your application unsuccessful.
- Candidates should attach all relevant academic documents as PDF Files
- National Medical Stores reserves the right to verify documents attached with the relevant awarding institutions to authenticate their validity.
- Any form of canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification
- National Medical Stores is an equal opportunity employer. Qualifying female candidates are encouraged to apply
Deadline: 4th August, 2023 by 5: 00pm.