Supervising Pharmacist required

Supervising Pharmacist required for Waterford -

 

Very busy family owned Pharmacy in Waterford City Centre requires a Supervising Pharmacist immediately.

Requirements -

• PSI Registered
• Minimum of 3 years Post Grad Pharmacy experience
• Living in or near the Waterford area
• Must thrive in a very busy working environment

The job -

Hours: 9am - 6pm Monday - Friday.  9am - 5pm Every Second Saturday (Rotation) - No Lates or Sundays
Salary: €65k DOE

450 - 500 Scripts per day
Quick Script system used
1 Nursing Home and Methadone Clients

Staff - 2 Pharmacy Technicians, 1 Support Pharamcist and the Managing Pharmacist

To apply or for more information about this Supervising Pharmacist job in Waterford, go to -

 

http://www.jackiebrownmedical.ie/jobs_ireland.php?url=jobs&page=2

We have a Client who is opening a new Pharmacy in Limerick soon.

They are an Independent and are seeking a Managing Pharmacist who will also be a Director.

Reporting to: Managing Director 
Proposed start date: ASAP

This is a permanent Managing Pharmacist job.

The role is a full time position of 45 hours per week.

It will involve some weekends, overtime and additional days may also be required.

The successful Pharmacist will be responsible for managing the dispensary and retail Business. 
Primary aspects of the Role:

 

I. The Pharmacist will assume full responsibility for the professional, clinical, ethical and financial running of the pharmacy business in line with company and industry regulations.
II. Management of day to day business, operating of the entire shop, stock control both in dispensary and front of shop.
III. Management of all personnel, cash management and customer Services. 
IV. The role is not exhaustive and includes management and training of related personnel.

 

About the Managing Pharmacist -
I. A self motivated, enthusiastic individual with excellent people skills, confidence and good clinical knowledge.
II. Must have the ability to be acutely aware of customer needs while also being a commercial thinker, with the ability to balance being a healthcare professional while being mindful of the business aims.
III. The successful candidate will have a key focus on customer service and developing the customer base. A highly organised individual who has the ability to work under pressurised circumstances.
IV. A professional who takes their work very seriously and continuously strives for perfection and who is eager to surpass all expectations. Someone who is positive, committed, loyal and an excellent communicator.
Roles & Responsibilities 
     •   Dispensing to and advising patients on POM and P medicines
     •   Management of OTC stock control and merchandising
     •   Execution of the dispensary business plan
     •   Assisting in healthcare and retail events
     •   Fully compliant with legal and ethical requirements
     •   Day to day management of the dispensary, for example in verifying, sending claims, stock control, paperwork, etc
     •   Management of dispensary communications and performance of relief pharmacists 

 

For further information or to apply, go to -

http://www.jackiebrownmedical.ie/jobs_ireland.php?url=jobs&page=2

Medical jobs are looking good in Ireland.

We have a large amount of Medical jobs currently.

There are a large number of Medical Sales jobs and Pharmaceutical sales jobs

Also Science jobs and Nursing jobs.

For further information on these Medical jobs, go to -

http://www.jackiebrownmedical.ie/jobs_ireland.php?url=jobs

It’s been a while since I posted and now the recession is in full swing.  Indeed, other countries are talking about the recession bottoming out and the first signs of recovery.  It certainly doesn’t look that positive for us in Ireland at the moment.

NAMA remains a bone of contention and there is no obvious clear policy for a comprehensive plan to get us out of the mess we are in.  Indeed, it looks like we are facing a winter of public service strikes.

There is some positive movement though.  The initial recession panic seems to have alleviated to some extent.  While we are still seeing some redundancies in the medical sector, the rate of job losses has decreased.

Pharmacies are still reeling from the double hit they have taken.  There is little to no movement in the Pharmacist jobs market.  Our advice to pharmacists is “If you are working stay put”.  There were pharmacy closures over the last year and profit margins have been squeezed.  Salaries for new hires have similarly been affected.  The days of six figure salaries are largely over for now.  We have gone from a situation where pharmacists were in demand and could obtain nearly any salary they desired, to one where is an oversupply of pharmacists for very few jobs indeed.  We do not expect a change in this situation for another 12 months.

Nurses are finding themselves under increasing pressure, not immune to the bitter bite of the recession either.  Staff are not being replaced, Agency nurses are finding that there are fewer shifts available and conditions are not as good as they were (I can hear the comments already).  Many nurses are looking further afield with Nursing jobs in Australia enjoying a larger than normal interest.  Given that as a rule we export a lot of our nurses in good times it is perhaps not surprising.

The pharmaceuticals industry has also undergone some restructuring.  The Pfizer Wyeth deal has not had the negative effect that many in the industry in Ireland feared. We have seen large scale job cuts in manufacturing though, with several companies announcing redundancies.

Medical Sales Reps have been having a mixed time on the jobs market.  There have been redundancies, but there are still jobs available.  The people worst hit by the recession in Medical Sales are the people who are trying to break into Medical Sales.  A sudden glut of experienced Medical Sales reps on the market has left the hopeful rookies with little hope in a market that was always a relatively difficult one to breach.

We are still importing medical professionals to Ireland for positions that we just do not have enough people in the Irish pool for.  These tend to be specialist positions across the board.

Allied Health workers may as well get a job in the local chipper for the time being.  Despite there being a desperate need for Speech and Language Therapists, Physiotherapists and Social Workers, the budgets are just not there to hire them.  We are faced with a culture of marginalisation, where special needs requirements have been firmly shelved.

Health Care Assistants are having a rough ride too, as are any professions where there are an excess of people qualified for the position.  The Fetac qualification is fast becoming an absolute necessity.  Competition is fierce and agency shifts are ever thinner on the ground.  The best route to finding a permanent position remains in building contacts in individual hospitals and nursing homes while doing agency work.

Recruitment Agencies are reporting an upturn in the numbers of jobs available.  In the Medical Recruitment Market in particular there has been clear signs of improvement.

Want an update on another sector? Leave a comment.

The HSE has approached a number of recruitment agencies with a view to recruiting pharmacists for an 8 week period from the end of July.  This is a contingency plan in the event of community pharmacies discontinuing the provision of dispensing services to patients under the various community drug schemes from August 1st, 2009.

Pharmacists reaction has been unanimously angry.  Discussions on the subject on the website http://www.poitigeir.com/ (formerly http://www.pharmacycrisis.com) have been heated.  A post by Pat O’Dowd of the HSE asking pharmacists to reply to communications asking them to state their intentions on August 1st has been met with the sort of response that would do justice to any lynch mob.

Response to the agencies adverts have in general been negative.  Pharmacist feel that to work with the HSE on this scheme would seriously injure their chances of long term employment with any pharmacy.  They feel that the short duration of the locum is just not worth it since they would be viewed as ’scabs’ by the vast majority of pharmacists and pharmacy owners.

Hi guys,

I recently had an editorial published in the Sunday Independent reflecting today’s medical job market since the ‘recession’ took it’s toll -

The medical recruitment industry is not reporting the same dismal problems seen in some sections of the recruitment industry

 Although recruitment in general has been badly affected by the world economic crisis, one branch within it — medical recruitment — has remained relatively unscathed.

While the general recruitment sector has felt the squeeze from the downturn in the economy, not all areas within it are feeling the strain. On the contrary, for the medical recruitment sector business continues apace, according to Jackie Brown, managing director of Jackie Brown Medical.

Indeed, the medical sector has long lamented Ireland’s lack of medical practitioners, dentists and nurses, so it probably comes as no surprise to those in the know that recruitment in this area remains strong.

Jackie Brown Medical covers all areas of the medical sector, procuring both medical and non-medical staff for medical or healthcare-based companies, hospitals and clinics nationwide.

Brown argues that the medical recruitment industry is not reporting the same dismal problems seen in some sections of the recruitment industry. This fact notwithstanding, she has seen a shift in the sector.

“I’ve been recruiting within this industry for the past eight years, and over the past few weeks I’ve had candidates come back to me who have been made redundant. That’s the only evidence of the downturn I’ve experienced, but there are jobs still available,” she says.

Brown adds that another sign of the changing times is that medical companies are now outsourcing their training needs. As an aside, the outsourcing sector is one industry that is likely to benefit from the shifting economic times as companies try to save on costs and become more competitive.

“The medical market is shifting: in some areas the downturn is actually creating employment, which is quite bizarre. You are unlikely to find professionals within the medical sector scrambling for jobs or on dole queues,” she says.

Brown does accede however, that there has been a drop in salaries for pharmacists, but adds that this has more to do with cutbacks by the Health Service Executive (HSE) rather than the current economic climate.

“Pharmacists’ salaries have dropped by over 10pc. Where previously their salaries would have reached €75,000- €85,000, now they range somewhere between €65,000 and €75,000.”

Likewise, recently qualified radiographers whose contracts have just expired are also finding themselves back on the recruitment market. On the other hand, there are some vacancies available, as radiographers have always been in short supply in Ireland.

With an increase in the number of private healthcare providers now operating within the medical sector, Brown believes that many medical professionals are moving from the public to the private sector, “because with private comes a lot of security,” she says.

Brian Crowley, director of healthcare recruitment company TTM Recruitment, agrees. “HSE restrictions on recruitment mean that, for example, clinicians and nurses on temporary contracts in public hospitals have started to look towards the private healthcare sector. This leads to a certain amount of brain drain from the public to the private system,” he says.

Further good news for medical professionals seeking employment, and Jackie Brown Medical in particular, is that despite the continued economic turbulence, business has been hectic for the medical recruitment firm. In the past four weeks alone, the company has signed up five new clients, all of whom sought it out.

Of course, Jackie Brown Medical’s profile reached new heights recently as it was named Recruiter of the Year at the National Recruitment Federation Awards last month. Having the same name as Quentin Tarantino’s famous hit film Jackie Brown hasn’t done the company any harm either.

Brown launched Jackie Brown Medical in October 2007, having previously worked for five years in acute nursing and for eight years in the medical recruitment industry. To win the Recruiter of the Year award is an impressive achievement, especially for a company so young.

“I was absolutely honoured by the award. It was the single biggest achievement of my professional life,” says Brown.

It was perhaps Jackie Brown Medical’s innovation that won it the award. The firm not only prides itself on the high level of customer service it provides, but also on its extensive use of technology. It recently launched a forum for medical and healthcare workers in Ireland: Jackiebrownmedical.ie.

The forum allows workers within the sector to log on and share any issues they have, get advice from contemporaries or simply let off steam. While it is still in its infancy, it has gotten its fair share of hits, and is expected to grow as it becomes more established.

“The recruitment industry is heavily reliant on web-based services. Recruitment is also a hugely competitive sector and our web presence is a vital ingredient to our success,” says Brown.

“Our website was developed in-house and we have made a point of embracing the social-networking phenomenon that has swept the web by including social bookmarking facilities and the forum for medical and healthcare workers.”

Horray for Pharmacists!

We had recently noticed a surge of activity in Pharmacy Recruitment and this is one of the reasons why -

From 1st November 2008, the HSE will restore the mark-up it pays to Pharmacists from 8% to the previous rate of 17.66%. On September 11th the High Court found that the HSE was in breach of its contract with Pharmacists when it decided to reduce payments for the provision of drugs and services under the medical card scheme. The HSE was orded to pay the costs in the case. In response to the court ruling and in a major climb-down, the HSE announce on the 14th October that it had decided to restore the original mark-up arrangements from the beginning of November.

“In compliance with a recent High Court judgement, the wholesale mark-up the HSE pays to pharmacies for medicines supplied through the various medical card schmes will be increased on November 1st from 8 per cent to 17.66%”, it said.

The recent economic downturn hit early and hard for Pharmacists.  The HSE decision to reduce drug payments had a massive effect on Pharmacist Jobs.  It is only now, months later, that we are beginning to see the first signs of a recovery in the Pharmacy jobs market.

The news is not all good for Pharmacists though.  Salaries on offer are now roughly 10% less than they were before.

From a recruitment perspective we saw some recruitment agencies that had specialised in Pharmacist jobs in serious trouble for a while.

The Pharmacist jobs that are trickling onto the market at the moment tend to be senior positions.  Supervising Pharmacists have to be replaced when they leave their jobs.  We have also seen hospital Pharmacist positions poke their head over the HSE barricades to bring in new Pharmacists.

The private Hospital Pharmacist market, unhampered by HSE restrictions has seen Pharmacist Jobs created, but not in the numbers that would signal a full return to a healthy jobs market.

The market has not yet recovered for Pharmacy Technicians, but Pharmacy technicians were hardest hit with job losses and it would be expected that their recovery would be slowest.

Locum Pharmacist jobs suffered a bit of a blip, but it is now a good time to be working as a locum.  Pharmacy bosses are still holding back on hiring full time Pharmacists until the dust has settled further.  This gives rise to more Locum Pharmacist jobs becoming available as owners are slow to replace full time staff at present.

Given the scaremongering that took place immediately after the HSE announcements, the outlook at the moment is not at all bad! Medical Jobs in general are having a hard time, but much better than other industries.  I’d far rather be a Pharmacist right now than a construction worker!