SALUM MKATA
Dublin,Dublin08
Summary
- Friendly and patient leader focused on creating supportive and motivating working environments. Builds rapport quickly with patients from diverse backgrounds to educate them about general health topics and maintain well-being. Boosts team productivity by training and mentoring junior pharmacy staff.
- Attentive and detail-orientated individual with focus on using medical training to build career foundation. Warm, compassionate, and friendly communicator. Ready to apply thorough education and active listening skills to improve patient health and well-being.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Healthcare assistant
Care About You
Dublin, Dublin
2024.01 - Current
- Provided personalized care and support to vulnerable individuals, helping them retain maximum independence.
- Built patient confidence through physical exercise, promoting positive lifestyle changes and improved well-being.
- Maintained confidentiality and compliance standards for optimized patient care.
- Built caring, supportive relationships with residents, enhancing daily life through personalized care.
- Prepared healthy meals with additional mealtime planning, feeding, and support.
- Provided compassionate personal care for elderly patients, offering support with washing, dressing, and toileting.
- Promoted positive physical and emotional well-being through empathetic care and compassionate assistance.
- Maintained up-to-date patient records to enable care continuity between support providers.
Pharmaceutical Science Tutor
Nobo College of Pharmacy
Dar es Salaam
2020.06 - 2023.08
- Delivering lectures on Medicine and Medical Supplies Management and Health and Medicines Policy as per approved course curriculum to classes of 75+ students.
- Maintaining an interactive classroom environment to ensure quality learning experiences.
- Motivating students to achieve academic goals.
- Enforcing disciplined standards and college policies.
- Working effectively with other staff to achieve department missions
- Supporting students on an individual basis through learning or personal difficulties.
- Communicating with students about their progression in their area of pharmaceutical learning.
- Helping students apply for Pharmacy Technician License.
- Tracked student progress through regular assessments, promptly addressing knowledge and skills gaps.
Supervising pharmacist
Unguja Pharmacy Limited
Dar es Salaam
2016.10 - 2023.08
- Attentive and detail-orientated individual with focus on using medical training to build career foundation.
- Warm, compassionate, and friendly communicator.
- Ready to apply thorough education and active listening skills to improve patient health and well-being.
- Advise customers (100+ customers per day) on recommended dosage, warnings, storage, and possible side effects of all dispensed medication.
- Ensure that all legal and professional standards are adhered to.
- Coordinated medication management workflows for enhanced business efficiency.
- Led equitable, compliant, patient-centered pharmacy services.
- Identify and manage risks to patients, the public, and staff.
- Overall responsibility for setting out standards and policies for the provision of pharmacy services.
- Contacted and developed relationships with a variety of healthcare professionals to assist with queries.
- Be satisfied staff understand their roles and are sufficiently trained.
- Other day-to-day duties include staff organization/training, OTC/POM purchasing, stock rotation, date checking, advertising, handling complaints, and managing concerns.
- Monitored emerging technologies for value-added opportunities within pharmacy services.
Hospital Intern Pharmacist
Amana Regional Referral Hospital
Dar es Salaam
2015.10 - 2016.09
- Prepacked bulk medicines, filled bottles with prescribed medications, and affixed correct labels.
- Communicated frequently with doctors in the hospital, responding to queries regarding dosages, indications, and drug availability.
- Communicated potential issues and reactions to specific medications for patients ranging from children and teenagers to adults and geriatrics.
- Taught patients how to use medical devices such as glucose meters.
- Inspected drug storage sites, monitored drug supply expiration dates, and ensured proper supply levels.
- Provided medication counseling to 20-30 patients daily and documented appropriately.
- Evaluated over 1000 patients' histories to assess medication compliance and spot issues such as doctor shopping or excessive usage.
- Provided pharmaceutical care that includes cost-conscious therapeutic drug monitoring, pharmacokinetic evaluations, and documentation of patient medical records.
- Evaluated pertinent laboratory data, including drug-drug and drug-nutrient interactions.
- Quick problem solver Inventory stocking Supply management.
- Secure storage of medications Prescription dispensing Efficient dispensing.
- Interpreting orders.
- Answering customer questions Attentive listener.
- Patient-centred approach Exceptional attention to detail.
- Received and unpacked incoming stock, checking inventory against invoice.
- Maintained organized workspaces to aid team efficiency in a customer-facing environment.
Education
Master of Science - Pharmaceutical Business and Technology
Griffith College
Dublin 2023.09 -
Bachelor of Science - Pharmacy
Muhimbili University of Health And Allied Sciences
Dar es Salaam 2011.10 - 2015.12
Skills
- Safeguarding policy compliance
- Patient chaperoning
- Infection prevention and control
- Moving and handling
- Pressure relief
- Quick problem solver
- Inventory stocking
- Supply management
- Secure storage of medications
- Prescription dispensing
- Efficient dispensing
- Interpreting orders
- Answering customer questions
- Attentive listener
- Patient-centred approach
- Exceptional attention to detail
Languages
English
Upper intermediate
Accomplishments
- Supervised a team of 10 staff members at Unguja Pharmacy.
- Tutored up to 150+ students per month.
- Succeeded in receiving Ireland-Africa Fellowship 2023/24(Scholarship award) issued by Ireland Department of Foreign Affairs.
Affiliations
- Pharmacy Council of Tanzania
- Zanzibar Food and Drug Authority
TRAINING/COURSES/ WORKSHOP/SEMINARS ATTENDED
- Patient moving and handling/ Personal Care (organized by Care About You), January 16, 2023.
- Conference: Regulatory Best Practices for Global Access to Medicines, Including Anti-TB Medicines (organized by USFDA), August 16 to 18, 2022.
- Open-WHO online course, Vaccine Safety Basics (organized by WHO), April 16, 2022.
- Webinar: Counseling Patients on Generic Drugs (organized by USFDA) February 22, 2022.
- Webinar: One Health Approaches to Antimicrobial Resistance- Regional and Country Experiences (organized by WHO), September 23, 2021.
- Webinar: Instructional Methods in Health Professions Education (organized by Dr.Caren Stalburg, University of Michigan), October 03 to November 23, 2020. Webinar: Bridging the Gap – Promoting Safe and Effective Prescription Drug Use in Geriatric Patients (organized by USFDA), November 13, 2020.
- Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Session on Management of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) (organized by Pharmacy Council Tanzania), February 06, 2019.
- Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Session on Attitude Change and Career Growth through Learning and Creating Effective Teams to Impact Patient Care (organized by Pharmacy Council) May 22, 2018.
References
Mr. Peter Safari
Manager, Unguja Pharmacy Limited, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Mobile: +353877931083
Email: psafari255@gmail.com Dar es Salaam.
Kezia BegaQA Validation Engineer at Innopharma Technical Services /QA Validation Consultant Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
Mobile: +353873380678
Email: begak@innopharmalabs.com; kezysean@gmail.comLimerick.
Timeline
Healthcare assistant
Care About You
2024.01 - Current
Master of Science - Pharmaceutical Business and Technology
Griffith College
2023.09 -
Pharmaceutical Science Tutor
Nobo College of Pharmacy
2020.06 - 2023.08
Supervising pharmacist
Unguja Pharmacy Limited
2016.10 - 2023.08
Hospital Intern Pharmacist
Amana Regional Referral Hospital
2015.10 - 2016.09
Bachelor of Science - Pharmacy
Muhimbili University of Health And Allied Sciences
2011.10 - 2015.12