Brendon Ngwenya
Pharmacist
Grahamstown,9 Croft Street,Middle Earth Apartment
Summary
Self-aware and observant individual bringing creativity and a willingness to take risks. Natural leadership qualities, highly self-motivated and optimistic. Experience in healthcare system providing deep understanding of healthcare knowledge and development of imperative skills impacting personal growth and professional career as a pharmacist. Diplomatic, helpful, responsive, attentive, cooperative, and collaborative with exceptional work ethics and well-differentiated strengths and abilities. Results-oriented, analytical, committed, disciplined, intelligent, and engaged. Great respect for others' abilities, values, and dignity. Strong capacity to preserve information with a passion for serving those in need from both a patient and community perspective. Values working cooperatively with healthcare professionals and colleagues to enhance lives through high-quality pharmaceutical and patient services.
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
6
6
Languages
Work History
Locum Pharmacist
Clicks
(Jubilee Mall) Hammanskraal,Pretoria
01.2025 - 01.2025
- Following instructions and Procedures
- Relating and networking
- Delivering Results and Meeting Customer Expectations
- Planning and Organising
- Coping with Pressures and Setbacks
- Entrepreneurial and Commercial Thinking
- Working with people
- Adhering to Principles and Values of Clicks company
- Offering patient centred/Pharmaceutical care to the patients
- Improved patient outcomes by providing comprehensive medication therapy management and counseling.
- Developed strong relationships with healthcare providers to optimize patient care and medication adherence.
- Educated patients about possible drug interactions and gave special administration instructions.
- Managed high volume of prescriptions daily while maintaining excellent customer service and attention to detail.
Community Service Pharmacist
Jubilee District Hospital
Hammanskraal,Pretoria
01.2024 - 12.2024
- The provision of pharmaceutical care by taking responsibility for the patient's medicine-related needs and being accountable for meeting these needs, which include but not be limited to the following functions:
- Evaluation of a patient's medicine-related needs by determining the indication, safety and effectiveness of the therapy
- Dispensing of any medicine or scheduled substance on the prescription of a person authorised to prescribe medicine
- Furnishing of information and advice to any person with regard to the use of medicine
- Determining patient compliance with the therapy and follow-up to ensure that the patient's medicine-related needs are being met
- The provision of pharmacist-initiated therapy
- Comply with standard operating procedures and statutory regulations (GPP, GMP and PFMA)
- Provide comprehensive patient counselling and liaise with clinicians to ensure best therapeutic outcomes
- Monitor patient treatment adherence and appropriate use of chronic medicines
- Stock control and correct handling and storage of medicines
- Providing in-service training, promoting the rational and safe use of medicines and monitoring availability to essential medicines
- Promote efficient and effective public health services in line with Batho Pele Principles
- Ensure that section 21 medicine procedures are adhered to by health professionals and schedule five (5) and six (6) are balanced and maintained
- Supervision of Pharmacist Assistants and Interns
- Consulting with Medical Officers to ensure compliance to standard treatment guidelines and EML
Pharmacist Intern
Jubilee District Hospital
Hammanskraal,Pretoria
01.2023 - 12.2023
- Dispensing of schedule 1 to schedule 6 medicines and management of medicines
- Repackaging of medicines
- Reading, evaluating and preparation of prescriptions, Selection
- Manipulation and compounding of medicines
- Labelling and supply of medicines
- Provision of instructions regarding the correct use of medicines supplies and the provision of information to patients in order to promote health
- Distribution and control of stock of scheduled substances and management of patient information
- Evaluation of the patient medicine-related needs by determining the indication, safety and effectiveness of the prescribed therapy
- Comply with standard operating procedures and statutory regulations (GPP, GMP and PFMA)
- Supervision of Pharmacist Assistants
- Promote efficient and effective public health services in line with Batho Pele Principles
- Provide comprehensive patient counselling and liaise with clinicians to ensure best therapeutic outcomes
- Monitor patient treatment adherence and appropriate use of chronic medicines
Education
Bachelor of Pharmacy - Pharmacy
Rhodes University
Grahamstown, Eastern Cape 02.2019 - 12.2022
Matriculant - Science Stream
Freedom Community College
Johannesburg 01.2017 - 12.2017
Quality Assurance in the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Industry - Pharmacy
North West University
North West 07.2024 - 09.2024
Skills
- PATIENT CARE
- TIME ENGAGEMENT AND MANAGEMENT
- ABILITY TO WORK IN A TEAM
- EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION SKILLS
- ABILITY TO INTERPRET AND IMPLEMENT POLICIES, PROCESSES AND OBJECTIVES
- THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE OF PHARMACY MANUFACTURING
- LEADERSHIP SKILLS
- PHARMACEUTICAL CARE
- COLLABORATIVE
- ADAPTABILITY
- UNISOLVE EXPERIENCE
PATIENT EDUCATION
MEDICATION DISPENSING
PATIENT EDUACTION AND COUNSELLING
Extra-Curricular Activities
Class Representative, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, 01/01/20, 12/31/20, Facilitating the efficient communication of the class' concerns to the lecturer, or the Head of Division. Wellness and Transformation Representative, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, 01/01/20, 12/31/20, Planning and facilitating health activities, provision of conceptual framework for operationalising student development needs.
Driving License - Category
C1
Summary - About Me
I am a self-aware individual who is observant, perceptive and full of creativity, a risk taker, a natural leader who is highly self-motivated and optimistic. I'm also a reliable, responsible and a hard-working individual who is adaptable to all challenging situations. My participation in the health care system has given me access to the harbor of health care knowledge and the ability to develop imperative skills that have had a significant and a profound impact on my personal growth and my professional career as a pharmacist. I consider myself to be a diplomatic, helpful, responsive, attentive, cooperative, and collaborative person with excellent work ethics and well-differentiated and impactful strengths and abilities. I am a results-oriented individual who is analytical, committed, disciplined, intelligent, and engaged. I respect other people's abilities, values, and dignity. I am a competent person with the capacity to preserve information. I have passion for people and I value serving to those who are in need, particularly from a patient and a community viewpoint. I have in me a great willingness and a spirit to cooperatively serve and work together with other health care professionals and colleagues so as to cater and improve the lives of the people through the delivery of high-quality pharmaceutical and patient services.
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 09/02/01
- Nationality: South African
Timeline
Locum Pharmacist
Clicks
01.2025 - 01.2025
Quality Assurance in the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Industry - Pharmacy
North West University
07.2024 - 09.2024
Community Service Pharmacist
Jubilee District Hospital
01.2024 - 12.2024
Pharmacist Intern
Jubilee District Hospital
01.2023 - 12.2023
Bachelor of Pharmacy - Pharmacy
Rhodes University
02.2019 - 12.2022
Matriculant - Science Stream
Freedom Community College
01.2017 - 12.2017
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