Pharmacist
- Function
- Pharmacy
- Facility
- Life Carstenhof and Carstenview Hospital
- Position
- Pharmacist
- Introduction
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A vacancy exists for a Pharmacist based at Life Carstenhof & Carstenview Hospitals, reporting to Ravindra Kika, Senior Pharmacist. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring that the quality pharmaceutical services, financial objectives, legislative compliance and people management requirements are achieved to the required standards.
- Critical Outputs
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Effective medication safety management
- Report 100% of medication incidents and develop and implement remedial actions as appropriate.
- Report 100% of pharmacy alerts and develop and implement remedial action and complete a trends analysis quarterly.
- Dispense and credit medicines and ensure compliance with all legal and procedural requirements pertaining to a prescription.
- Supervision of Pharmacist Assistants
- Comply with all legal and procedural requirements pertaining to issuing and control of Schedule 5, Specified Schedule 5 and Schedule 6 drugs
- Issuing of ward stock to wards
Effective quality management systems
- Participate in the implementation and compliance to LHC Quality management systems.
- Ensure compliance with SAPC, DOH and LHC legal and professional standards
- Implement customer satisfaction and pharmacy quality initiatives.
Active involvement in AMS
- Actively drive the rational use of antibiotics
- Participation in Antibiotic awareness week
Effective financial management
- Participate in achieving hospital budgeted financial measures relating to pharmacy.
Effective COS management
- Participate in the active management of cost of sales of pharmaceuticals in line with revenue and budget.
- Build effective working relationships with doctors and other stakeholders in the hospital
Effective stock management
- Participate in achieving stock targets.
- Achieve optimal system utilization.
- Participate in stock takes and investigations of variances
Effective people management
- Participate in Pharmacist Assistant programs as appropriate.
- Ensure good communication with nursing staff and doctors
- Requirements
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- Pharm /B.Sc Pharm
- Relevant clinical knowledge and experience to the critical outputs
- Current registration with South African Pharmacy Council
- Understanding of pharmacy and related healthcare industry, legislation, regulation and challenges
- Knowledge of pharmaceutical legislation
- Pharmaceutical product knowledge
- Computer proficiency (MS office)
- Competent in using Unisolve ®
- Knowledge of SAP advantageous
- Competencies
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- Problem-solving, analysis and judgement
- Attention to detail
- Resilience
- Motivating and developing people
- Engaging diversity
- Verbal & written communication skills
- Influencing skills
- Building relationships
- Customer responsiveness
- Organisational awareness
- Excellence orientation
- Ethical behaviour
- Action orientation
- Ravindra.kika@lifehealthcare.co.za
- Closing date
- Thursday, February 12, 2026
Internal applicants - Before making an application, you are requested to discuss your application with your line manager. External candidates will also be considered.
Life Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Thank you for your interest in this opportunity. Kindly note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Applicants who have not been contacted within two weeks of the closing date of this advert, should consider their application as unsuccessful.