Médecins du Monde (MdM) est une organisation humanitaire internationale dont la mission est de fournir des soins médicaux aux populations les plus vulnérables, dans le monde entier, y compris en France. Elle cherche à stimuler l’engagement volontaire de médecins, d’autres prestataires de soins, et de ceux dont l’expertise dans d’autres domaines est nécessaire à ses activités, à s’assurer de tout soutien compétent nécessaire à la réalisation de ses projets, et à chercher à tout moment à encourager des relations de travail étroites avec les populations dont elle a la charge. MdM opère au Nigeria, dans l’État de Borno, depuis octobre 2016.
Location: Damboa, Borno
Employment Type: Full-time
Main Responsibilities
- Under the supervision of the pharmacist in Damboa and with the functional supervision of Pharmaco, the Pharmacy Assistant will assist the pharmacist in carrying out daily activities in the pharmacy.
- S/He will also support mobile clinics in Damboa to carry out day to day pharmacy related activities.
- Assist the pharmacist in implementing a quality drugs supply system in line with MdM standards.
- Assist the pharmacist in the reception and preparation of orders.
- Reporting and attendance to meetings.
- Stock management in link with mobile clinics.
- Dispensing of drugs to patients and patients counseling.
- Collection, inventory and analysis of weekly drugs consumption and requests.
Tasks Description
- Assist the pharmacist in implementing a quality drugs supply system in line with MdM standards.
- Update in a timely way the stock movement (IN/OUT) from the pharmacy on stock cards.
- Monitor, and record manually the daily temperature and humidity of the pharmacy warehouse.
- Alert the pharmacist in case of deviation from MdM set standards.
- Organize and supervise the cleaning of the pharmacy warehouse.
- Participate in analysis of needs, preparation of regular forecasts, calculation of replenishment orders and buffer stocks of the project.
- Ensure all boxes and items are proper identified and registered in stock cards.
- Support pharmacy assistant in the weekly drugs requests to MdM pharmacy.
- Collaborate closely with the pharmacist and build the capacities of dispensers of supported health facilities and mobile clinics.
Assist the pharmacist in the reception and preparation of orders:
Support the Pharmacist to:
- Check quantities and quality of the received items.
- Integrate all received items into physical stock.
- Prepare and distribute the drugs according mobile clinics requests and projects needs.
- Check the rationality of the requests.
- Pack supply request from the supported facilities and mobile clinics in a timely way.
- Update the stock cards according to the stock movements.
Reporting and Attendance to Meetings:
- Support the mobile clinic to prepare request for the clinic and validate with Medical supervisor.
- Liaise/inform clinician, doctors and midwife about drug availability.
- Participate in a pro-active way to MdM internal meetings (medical, security)
- Participate in all the trainings organized by MDM.
- Stock management in link with mobile clinics.
- Stock management in link with mobile clinics.
- Prepare all the necessary drugs, material and equipment for mobile clinics and ensure that everything is ready before leaving MdM office
- Store drugs according to instructions and standards.
- Realize the pharmacy stock management (in/out) at the mobile clinics
- Calculate daily consumption for each item in order to anticipate any shortage
- Do a weekly physical inventory of mobile clinic pharmacy
- Support the mobile clinic team in the preparation of weekly drugs orders to MdM central pharmacy with the assistance of the medical supervisor.
- Monitor the supply quantity, expiration dates and quality of medicines and medical supplies.
Dispensing of Drugs to Patients and Patients Counseling:
- To support the team in drug dispensing in case of need.
- Give drugs according to medical prescription.
- Indicate the name, presentation and dosage of the drugs on the dispensing bag.
- Explain to the patient how to take the treatment and make sure that the explanations have been understood
- Explain the potential side effects of a drug to the patients
- Fill in the daily consumption form for each item.
- Ensure patient confidentiality is respected and treat all the patients with respect and dignity
Collection, Inventory and Analysis of Weekly Drugs Consumption and Requests:
- Collect the daily mobile clinic consumption.
- Participate to collect the weekly consumption and analysis of the medical stock needs.
Others:
- Stand in for the pharmacist and perform his/ her essential functions while on leave for smooth running of MdM activities.
- Perform other additional duties on request of the Medical Supervisor/ PharmaCo and Pharmacist.
- Give suggestions to improve the functioning of MDM mobile clinics.
Profile Required
- Candidates should possess a Bachelor’s Degree qualification.
- Preferred at least 1 year as professional pharmacist.
- Strong sense of responsibilities and organization skills.
- Strong sense of organization and attention to details.
- Flexibility.
- Good communication and team work.
- Ability to work within a complex structure to ensure continuous supply of required.
- Ability to work under pressure while maintaining a high level of accuracy.
- Languages (spoken and written): English, Kanuri and Hausa.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and Cover Letter in one single attachment to: [email protected] using “Pharmacy Assistant Damboa” as the subject of the email.
Note: Applications without the correct subject line stated above will not be treated.
