Post Basic Pharmacist Assistant

Job Summary:

Post Basic Pharmacist Assistant, registered in the category Pharmacists Assistant (post-basic), may perform the acts or provide services as well as the reading and preparation of a prescription, the selection and manipulation or compounding of medicine and the labelling and supply of medicine in an appropriate container under the indirect personal supervision of a Pharmacist.

Minimum Qualifications and Experience:

• Grade 12 or equivalent level of education.
• Post Basic Pharmacist’s Assistant Certificate.
• Current registration with South African Pharmacy Council (SAPC) as a PBPA.
• 1 to 2 years’ experience in a private hospital pharmacy or retail setting.
• Computer proficiency – SAP and Unisolv.

Minimum Job Requirements:

• Assist Pharmacist with the compounding, manipulation or preparation of medicine according to Standard Operating Procedures.
• Dispense, accurately and correctly, stock to wards, discharged patients and special prescriptions under the close supervision of the Pharmacist Issue drugs as per Group Standard Operating Practices.
• Interpret prescriptions and select, manipulate and compound medicine into appropriate containers under the close supervision of the Pharmacist.
• Communicate changes in ethical formulary products to all units.
• Package and/or pre-pack pharmaceuticals under the close supervision of the Pharmacist.
• Distribute and control stock of Schedule 1 to Schedule 2 medicines or unscheduled substances.
• Sell over-the-counter medicines under the close supervision of the Pharmacist.
• All ward stock issues, retail scripts, TTO scripts and in-hospital scripts dispensed/picked/packed must be signed off by a Pharmacist before handing it over to the patient, ward/unit or nursing staff member.