Main Responsibilities
Under the supervision of the Pharmacist, the pharmacy assistant will be responsible for the following main activities in order to ensure the quality of care in the mobile clinics:
Stock management in link with mobile clinics
Distribution of drugs to the patients and counseling
Reporting and attendance to different meetings
Collection and analysis of weekly drugs consumption
Tasks Description

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 to leave MdM office
Prepare weekly drugs orders to MdM central pharmacy with the assistance of the medical doctors and paramedics staff
Monitor the supply quantity, expiration dates and quality of medicines and medical supplies.
Ensure pharmacy recommendations are applied
Store drugs according to instructions and standards.
Realize the pharmacy stock management (in/out) at the mobile clinic
Calculate daily consumption for each item in order to anticipate any shortage
Do a weekly physical inventory of mobile clinic pharmacy
Distribution of drugs during the mobile clinics:
Give the drugs according to the medical prescription.
Ask the medical doctor or the midwife to complete their prescription in case of incomplete information (dosage, duration…)
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 patient
Fill in the daily consumption form for each item
Ensure patient confidentiality is respected and treat all the patients with respect and dignity
Collection and analysis of weekly drugs consumption:
Collect the daily mobile clinic consumption
Participate to collect the weekly consumption and analysis of the medical stock needs
Reporting and attendance to different meetings:
Prepare request for the clinic and validate with Medical supervisor.
Liase/inform clinician, doctors and midwife about drug availability.
Participate in a pro-active way to MdM internal meetings (medical, security…)
Participate to all the trainings organized by MDM

Others:
Give suggestions to improve the functioning of MDM mobile clinics
Participate to the loading and unloading of the vehicles and to the setting up of the mobile clinics
Be flexible in performing his/her duties to ensure that beneficiaries are getting good quality services
Is responsible for the proper use and maintenance of assigned equipment
Perform other additional duties on request of the team leader
Inform immediately the security focal point in case of any security problem in the field

Profile Required
Pharmacist Preferred
Experience in similar position for at least 2 years
Good knowledge in dispensing and medical stock management
Capacities in team management
Strong sense of responsibilities and organization skills
Strong work ethic and rigor
Languages (spoken and written): English, Kanuri and Hausa
Excel and word
Flexibility
Team player
Because of the emergency relief nature of MDM’s work, working hours may be irregular and employees are expected to be flexible in their approach to working hours under emergency conditions.
He/she works under the supervision of the Pharmacist. The employee shall respect Médecins du Monde France’s schedule and Terms and Conditions of Engagement for National Staff and is expected to be available anytime in order to answer to an emergency situation and be flexible and available beyond normal working hours if requested.

To Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and Cover Letter in one single attachment via email to: recruitment.nigeria@medecinsdumonde.net clearly indicate “Pharmacy Assistant Damboa” as the subject of your application.
Application Deadline: 18th December, 2019
Note: Applications without the above subject will not be treated.