CLINICAL PHARMACIST
Key duties and responsibilities:
- Clinical pharmacy
- Provide and supervise Inpatient Prescription Review / Medication Reconciliation/ Discharge & Outpatient prescription review & patient Counseling
- Establish and train a team of clinical pharmacists to perform the above tasks
- Provide continuous education and regular scientific updates.
- Develop policies and guidelines, therapeutic & medication use recommendations.
- Organize and follow patient rounds, attend clinical staff meeting when possible
- Antibiotic Utilization and Monitoring
- Collaborate with the Infection Control team, Doctors and Laboratory to develop tools to ensure safe and effective use of antibiotics
- Develop guidelines and policies to assist medical doctors in the selection and adequate prescription of Antibiotics
- Monitor antibiotic prescriptions and utilization and prepare monthly statistics to the management.
- Drug Information Unit & Vigilance
- Issue drug updates, alerts, and other drug-related information
- Pharmacovigilance: receive, analyze and manage adverse drug reactions, near-misses and medication errors reports.
- Perform Drug Use evaluation projects upon Drug Committee requirement
- Continuous education & training
- Provide pharmacists, nurses, and other healthcare providers with drug-related educational activity and/or scientific updates.
- Affiliate with the local and international School of Pharmacy to precept students and residents
- Provide training to doctors and nurses about new therapeutic protocols
- Orion HIS, Online Pharmacy Modules (eRx, IPD Dispensation module & eChemo)
- Lead the configuration and implementation of the Inpatient and Outpatient HIS Pharmacy Module & eChemo application
- Provide training and assistance to doctors on system utilization
- Revise and update the content of Pharmacy modules on a regular basis
Requirements
- Qualification:
- University Degree of Pharmacist (Bachelor or Pharm.D degree from Western or International University highly recommended)
- Additional post-graduate clinical pharmacy degree or significant training highly recommended
- Experience:
- Significant professional experience in international environment (>1 year)
- Skills and knowledge:
- High skills for problem solving, effective communication and influence
- Responsibility and accountability: maintain a high level of practice in accordance with legal and professional requirement, maintain confidentiality and accurate records.
- Supervisory skills and ability to work under pressure
- Excellent customer services skills
- Foreign language(s): Excellent English language skills, French recommended.
