Pharmacist - Woodburn

In brief

**Overview** This is an opportunity for a Pharmacist to join Dis-Chem Pharmacies at their Woodburn Square store. The role involves dispensing medications, providing pharmaceutical expertise to patients and healthcare professionals, and ensuring the safe and effective use of prescription medications. **What you will do** Key responsibilities for this role include: * **Dispensing Medication:** * Dispensing medication under direct personal supervision of a Pharmacist. * Accurately interpreting scripts and acting professionally, responsibly, and within legal requirements according to the South African Pharmaceutical Council. * Capturing script details accurately and verifying patient’s details on the system. * Ensuring accurate picking, packing, labelling, and checking of medication, while being aware of common dosages and important drug interactions. * Providing accurate instructions to patients regarding the correct use of medicine supplied. * Keeping abreast of changes in medical aid procedures and requirements for claims and dispensing. * **Customer Service:** * Advising and assisting patients at the dispensary, self-medication counter, and front-shop. * Following up with patients regarding script tracking reports as requested by the dispensary manager and follow-up appointments. * Explaining all medical aid costs to patients. * **Administration:** * Processing all necessary paperwork for the accurate submission of claims to medical aids. * Correcting errors on scripts rejected by medical aid. * Ensuring authorization of chronic, HIV and AIDS, and oncology medication. * Maintaining customer profiles on the system. * Merging profiles locally and notifying Vexall to merge profiles centrally. * Taking note of any messages on the customer profile and taking suitable action. * **Stock Control:** * Reporting on low or out-of-stock levels and stock errors to the dispensary manager. * Facilitating bi-annual stock takes. * Exercising stock, cash, and asset control. **Requirements (from the original advert)** * **Essential Minimum Requirements:** * Grade 12 / Matric * BPharm / equivalent qualification * Registered with the South African Pharmacy Council (SAPC) * Minimum 2-3 years' experience in Pharmaceutical * 2-3 years retail pharmacy experience * Computer literate – MS Office * **Advantageous Requirements:** * Relevant retail/FMCG experience * Third additional language * SAP experience * E-scripting experience * Registered tutor * Unisolv experience * **Essential Competencies:** * Comprehensive medicine knowledge, including common dosing regimes, interactions, and counselling to ensure appropriate and effective treatment outcomes. * Understanding of Retail as pertains to pharmacy. * Ability to think critically. * Excellent communication skills, including the ability to communicate with people from all sections of the community, and to guide patients on medication usage and side effects. * Ability to read, write, and speak English and a second language. * Ability to find solutions to potential issues, and to know when and to what level to escalate problems. * Acts as a role model, demonstrates drive to ensure quality is not compromised. * Time management skills, able to meet deadlines, demonstrates patience and ability to remain calm in stressful situations. * Computer and numerical skills. * Familiarity with Unisolv, SAP, E-Scripting systems. * **Special Conditions of Employment:** * Willing and able to work retail hours. * Work environment considerations: controlled room temperature, security, limited space, health and safety, risk stock. * Physically fit and able to stand for long periods. * Valid driver’s license and own reliable transport. * South African citizen. * MIE Clear credit and criminal records. **Who should apply** The ideal candidate is a qualified and SAPC-registered Pharmacist with a minimum of 2-3 years of experience in both the pharmaceutical sector and retail pharmacy. They should be computer literate with strong communication skills in at least English and a second language, possessing comprehensive medicine knowledge, critical thinking, and problem-solving abilities. The role requires someone who is customer-service oriented, detail-focused on dispensing and administration, capable of managing stock, and able to maintain high standards of quality. Applicants must be South African citizens, physically fit to stand for long periods, willing to work retail hours, and have a valid driver's license with reliable transport, along with clear credit and criminal records. Experience with specific software like SAP, E-scripting, or Unisolv, or a third additional language would be advantageous. **Deadline** 13 October 2026 **Reference** Original posting: https://www.myjobmag.co.za/job/pharmacist-woodburn-dis-chem-pharmacies Source: myjobmag

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