Pharmacist

The UN Clinic was established to provide competent primary health care services in Zimbabwe for UN personnel and their eligible dependents. The clinic is mandated with the provision of workplace occupational health care management systems and structures, to ensure a robust response mechanism to staff and dependents health challenges. Whilst curative care is equally important, special emphasis has always been on promotive and preventive health care management services.

The UN family in Zimbabwe has not been spared by the COVID-19 pandemic and this saw the need to enhance the capacity of the UN Clinic staff. During the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, extra staff was hired for the UN Clinic on a temporary basis to augment the existing medical staff to strengthen the fight against the pandemic. This staff structure was partly maintained as a measure of preparedness against future waves of COVID-19 , other pandemics and leverage the effects of the deterioration of the health delivery system in the country. The economic situation in the country has also seen alarming exodus of health care personnel including doctors, nurses, laboratory scientists, nurses’ aides etc. This situation makes our roster ineffective with difficulties to get the selected health personnel when needed. The additional staff will be required to start as soon as possible and continue for the period covering 12 months. This is to ensure that adequate care is given as and when needed to UN Staff and dependents.

Dispensary Services:

• • Monitoring the consumption of drugs, laboratory reagents, medical and surgical consumables at the UN Dispensary.
  • Assisting the health team in the treatment and side effect monitoring.
  • Dispensing valid prescriptions and medical supplies to patients of UN Clinic
  • Ensure a proper and safe disposal of hazardous material and medical waste in close coordination with the Medical Doctor and Nurses and Lab technicians,

Advisory Services to the Management of all UN Agencies:

• • Offers day-to-day advice on pharmaceutical issues including evaluating different antibiotics for impact on the local microbiological situation, and secures that mission personnel do not unnecessarily influence the ecological balance through the use of antibiotics.
  • Responsible for advising the Medical Doctor in the specification of drugs to be requisitioned, and for offering a prudent scale of issue for the planning of re-supply.

Planning and supply of drugs, medical supplies and consumables

• • Through proactive planning and facilitation of an unimpeded supply of drugs, medical supplies, medical consumables, vaccines, condoms (male and female) and blood in the field mission.
  • Prepare Annual Procurement Plan for procurement of medicines, diagnostics and medical supplies and supervise its implementations.

Contribute to pandemic preparedness planning and implementation, for the UN population, when and where required in conjunction with WHO.

Other Services:

• • Supply, replenish, and update all medical kits in all duty stations within the country, including medical kits for UN official vehicles.
  • Performs other duties as required.

Achieve Results: LEVEL 1: Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline.

 Think Innovatively: LEVEL 1: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements.

Learn Continuously: LEVEL 1: Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback.

Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 1: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible.

Act with Determination: LEVEL 1: Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver.

calmly in face of adversity, confident

Engage and Partner: LEVEL 1: Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver.

calmly in face of adversity, confident

Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 1: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination.

• Ability to inspect, cleanse, transform and model data with the goal of discovering useful information, informing conclusions and supporting decision-making.

• Ability to take decisions in a timely and efficient manner in line with one’s authority, area of expertise and resources.

• Ability to research and turn information into useful knowledge, relevant for context, or responsive to a stated need.
• Diagnostic capacity and procurement of laboratory.
• equipment, consumables and reagents
• Ability to respond timely and appropriately with a sense of urgency, provide consistent solutions, and deliver timely and quality results and/or solutions to fulfil and understand the real customers' needs.
• Provide inputs to the development of customer service strategy.
• Look for ways to add value beyond clients' immediate requests.
• Ability to anticipate client's upcoming needs and concerns.
• Knowledge and understanding of the UN Staff
• Regulations and Rules and other policies relating to ethics and integrity.
• Health emergencies

Required Skills and Experience

• Bachelor of Pharmacy Degree or equivalent qualification.
• Current registration without restrictions with the Pharmacists Council of Zimbabwe to practice in Zimbabwe or another UN member state is required.
• Current registration without restrictions with the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe

• A minimum of six years of experience in working in a pharmacy
• Experience in developing, updating and implementing a mission list for drugs and medical consumables, based on generic drugs produced according to the World Health Organization (WHO) standards.
  • Experience in dispensing valid prescriptions and medical supplies to patients.
  • Experience in monitoring the consumption of drugs, laboratory reagents, medical and surgical consumables.
  • In-depth knowledge of the proper and safe disposal of hazardous material and medical waste
  • Knowledge on pharmaceutical issues including evaluating different antibiotics for impact on the local microbiological situation.
• Experience in proactive planning and facilitation of an unimpeded supply of drugs, medical supplies, medical consumables, vaccines, condoms (male and female) etc.
• Demonstrated experience in working with people of different national and cultural background.
• Demonstrated knowledge of and experience in dispensing and management of pharmaceuticals
• Demonstrated experience in quality assurance of health products.
• Knowledge and experience in monitoring consumption of drugs and other medical and surgical consumables
• Previous work experience in the UN/NGO environment is an added advantage.
• Knowledge and experience in the usage of computers and good knowledge of relevant medical databases

Required Language(s)

• Fluency in oral and written English is required. Fluency in Shona and or Ndebele required.

Professional Certificates

• Post graduate training Diploma/certificate in a relevant health-related field, e.g., Public Health, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Health Economics or equivalent.

Institutional Arrangement

• Under the guidance and supervision of the UN Clinic Health Manager, the Pharmacist provides pharmaceutical services to all locally and internationally recruited personnel of the UN Common System and their eligible dependents in Zimbabwe.