PHARMACY ASSISTANT

Description

Job Summary: Perform separation and dispensing of materials and medications, ensuring appropriate patient care and inventory control. Key Highlights: 1. Receive, inspect, and store materials and medications 2. Manage inventory and verify expiration dates 3. Provide patient service and medication dispensing Perform separation and dispensing of prescribed or requested materials and medications, ensuring that patient care is delivered appropriately. **Responsibilities and Duties** * Receive, inspect, and store items in accordance with current regulations; * Dispense and label; * Perform separation and verification of prescribed/requested materials and medications as required; * Provide counter services upon manual request or via system; * Monitor inventory of materials and medications, verifying expiration dates, batch numbers, organization, and environmental cleanliness; * Alert when a specific material or medication reaches the predetermined minimum stock level; * Dispense medications according to demand; * Distribute medications and materials to requesting units, ensuring supply safety; * Execute inventory write-offs, returns, and transfers of medications and materials to maintain up-to-date inventory records; * Monitor temperature for thermolabile medications and environment; * Provide data to immediate supervisor for indicator consolidation; * Record incidents in the shift logbook; * Perform related activities per procedural manual. **Exclusive Activities – High-Cost Pharmacy** * Register users and prescriptions in the MEDEX system; * Conduct user triage services; * Prepare flyers. **Exclusive Activities – Outpatient Clinics and High-Cost Pharmacy** * Receive medications and materials based on invoice verification, supply orders, and purchase commitment notes, as validated by the immediate supervisor. * Store and record movement of received medications and materials. **Requirements and Qualifications** * Completed high school education; * Computer literacy; * Prior experience in this role is desirable. **Additional Information** Work schedule: 6 days on / 1 day off, from 11:00 AM to 7:20 PM — 220 hours/month **SPDM** — Associação Paulista para o Desenvolvimento da Medicina (São Paulo Association for the Development of Medicine) is a non-profit, philanthropic civil association, recognized as being of federal, state, and municipal public utility at its headquarters, respectively by Decrees No. 57.925 dated 03/04/1966, No. 40.103 dated 05/17/1962, and No. 8.911 dated 07/30/1970. The Association’s primary directive is integration into the health system focused on disease treatment, prevention, and promotion of primary, secondary, and tertiary health care, strengthening ties with the local community and reaffirming its social commitment to serve everyone without discrimination. With institutional growth, **SPDM** has been expanding its scope of operations through projects under development in Social Assistance and Education. This wide range of activities increasingly consolidates **SPDM** as a large-scale philanthropic institution pursuing economic, social, and environmental sustainability. Thus, SPDM contributes effectively to the continuous improvement of services provided by Brazil’s Unified Health System (SUS), primarily aiming to guarantee universality and equitable access to health services—essential elements for human and social development of citizens. Our commitment is to foster an inclusive culture embracing diversity, empowering our employees to contribute their best. All qualified candidates will be considered for positions without distinction based on ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, age, race, nationality, or disability. SPDM is an equal opportunity employer for all individuals who meet the minimum requirements. We value idea sharing, teamwork culture development, respect for diversity, and inclusion. **MISSION** To deliver health care with excellence, free from prejudice, distinction, or classification of citizens. **VISION** To be recognized as Brazil’s largest and most competent philanthropic health organization. **VALUES** * Training and Development * Social Commitment * Reliability * Entrepreneurship * Equity * Ethics * Humanization * Quality * Ecological, Economic, and Social Sustainability * Tradition * Transparency **HGPED** Hospital Geral de Pedreira (Pedreira General Hospital) is managed by **SPDM** — Associação Paulista para o Desenvolvimento da Medicina, which holds a management contract with the São Paulo State Department of Health. Inaugurated on June 26, 1998, the hospital was established to fulfill a longstanding community demand. Hospital Geral de Pedreira strives for excellence in public health services, guided by social responsibility actions and steadfast commitment to the principles of Brazil’s Unified Health System (SUS).