Position: Pharmacy In-Charge
Department: Pharmacy
Reporting To: Hospital Management
Job Summary
The Pharmacy In-Charge is responsible for the overall management and smooth functioning of the hospital pharmacy. The role includes ensuring the availability of medicines, regulatory compliance, inventory management, staff supervision, patient safety, and maintaining high standards of pharmaceutical services.
Key Responsibilities1. Pharmacy Operations
- Ensure the smooth day-to-day functioning of the pharmacy.
- Supervise dispensing of medicines accurately as per valid prescriptions.
- Ensure timely availability of medicines, consumables, and surgical items.
- Monitor the quality and protected storage of all pharmaceutical products.
- Ensure compliance with hospital policies and pharmacy SOPs.
2. Inventory Management
- Maintain optimum stock levels of medicines and consumables.
- Monitor fast-moving, slow-moving, and non-moving inventory.
- Prevent stock shortages and overstocking.
- Verify inward and outward stock entries on a daily basis.
- Conduct periodic physical stock verification.
- Ensure FEFO/FIFO principles are followed.
- Monitor and minimize medicine expiry and wastage.
3. Procurement & Vendor Coordination
- Prepare purchase requisitions based on consumption trends.
- Coordinate with the purchase department and suppliers.
- Compare quotations and ensure cost-effective procurement.
- Verify received medicines against purchase orders and invoices.
- Follow up with vendors for pending supplies and replacements.
4. Regulatory Compliance
- Ensure compliance with the Drugs and Cosmetics Act and applicable pharmacy regulations.
- Maintain all statutory licenses and records.
- Ensure narcotic and controlled drug registers are maintained properly.
- Maintain documentation required for NABH and other regulatory audits.
5. Staff Management
- Supervise pharmacists and pharmacy assistants.
- Prepare duty rosters and shift allocations