Reports to: Senior Program Officer, Clinical Quality Assurance

Technical Report: Associate Director, Pharmacy & Supply Chain &TMA

Location : Eket, Akwaibom Zone B

Job Summary

Incumbent will plan and support the delivery of quality pharmaceutical care services in accordance with donor requirements and stipulated guidelines of the Federal Government of Nigeria to the Heartland Alliance Nigeria One Stop Shop. With technical oversight from the Pharmacy Advisor the incumbent will provide support to the design, planning, and implementation of high-quality pharmaceutical care services according to national and international standards and develop guidelines, tools, SOPs and recommendations related to implementation and monitoring of pharmaceutical care total quality management.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Scheduling ART and OIs medication orders for clients
• Obtaining and documenting clinical and demographic patient information,
• Serve as a member of the clinical team who are saddled with ART and PrEP initiation and Switch.
• Liaise with State and PEPFAR IPs drugs logistics system to ensure adequate and timely supply of ARVs and other medications to the OSS.
• Responsible for overall coordination and processing of new ART client medication orders and reorders.This includes verifying/re verifying new or refillprescriptions into the pharmacy information system and CRRIFF.
• Lead counseling on ART side effects and identification and reporting of adverse drug reaction.
• Train clinical team members on drug side effects and adverse drug reaction
• Provide adherence counselling, client tracking and retention activities.
• Other responsibility as assigned.

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in pharmacy
• Registration with the Pharmacy Council of Nigeria
• A minimum two (2) years’ experience working as a hospital-based pharmacy or HIV/AIDS settings
• Must have an above average knowledge of and experience with HIV care and treatment medication.

Heartland Alliance Ltd/Gte…Towards Excellence and Impact.

• Heartland Alliance Ltd/Gte does not charge any fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview, processing).
• Heartland Alliance Ltd/Gte is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behavior at work including sexual harassment, exploitation, abuse, lack of integrity, and financial misconduct, and is committed to promoting the human rights of children, young people, and adults. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.
• Heartland Alliance Ltd/Gte provides Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, or genetics.