Pharmacist
Job Description
Pharmacist – UAE Nationals only
Description
The Staff Pharmacist looks after the day to day work of the Pharmacy as per department schedule and is responsible for ensuring the safe, appropriate and cost effective use of medicines.
He/she will work collaboratively with other health care professionals and also shoulder the responsibility of Pharmacy In-charge during his/her absence. Complies with the department of pharmacy’s code of conduct.
Essential Job functions and Key Accountabilities: 
1. Ensure compliance with all current departmental policies and procedures.
2. Interpretation of physicians’ orders, checking, verifying, compounding and dispensing medicines.
3. Identify patient correctly to ensure the 5 rights (patient, drug, route, time, and dose) and counseling patients on the effects, dosage and route of administration of their drug treatments.
4. Maintain effective communication with patients and their relatives. Ensuring medication reaches the patient in the correct form and dose – which include tablet, capsule, ointment, injection, inhalers, cream, and syrup.
5. Provide information and make recommendations about over-the-counter drugs, advice patients about durable medical equipment and home healthcare supplies.
6. Give advice about diet, exercise, or stress management and help patients manage conditions such as diabetes, asthma, smoking cessation, or blood pressure.
7. Responds to medication related queries from within the hospital, patients, their relatives and also recognize and respond to changes in patient’s condition.
8. Prepares the sterile IV medications under aseptic conditions, check for its quality and maintain the sterility.
9. Responsible for accurate dispensing and timely distribution of drugs and medicines for In-patients and Out-patients, maintain the In-patient profile.
10. Answer telephone calls responding to questions or requests.
11. Coordinate with Chief for developing and implementing mainly the hospital pharmacy policies and procedures to meet with JCIA requirements.
12. Looks after the Clinic area medication management, which includes floor stock inventory & stock updating in coordination with Chief Pharmacist & nursing department.
13. Coordinate with Chief and IT department to update the IT requirements towards the pharmacy service development program.
14. Getting medication approvals from various insurance companies.
15. Checking the medicines shortage regularly and requesting for re-order, also regular monitoring of the short expiry medicines, rotation of stock for the effective handling of the near expiry drugs and to coordinate with the supervisor for the replacement of the near expiry medicines also check the supply from stores and enters inventory data into the computer system whenever possible. Inventory auditing as per hospital policy.
16. Ensures medicines are stored appropriately and securely to maintain freshness and potency.
17. Managing the medication error and support the drug utilization information system and being aware of the latest medicine and their availability.
18. Supervises and checks the work of pharmacy tech, pharmacy intern / student pharmacist and less experienced staff in the absence of Chief pharmacist.
19. Performs other duties as assigned by Chief.
20. Ensures to keep the department secure, clean, neat, and tidy always.
Clinical/Technical Competencies:
1. Product distribution; dispensing medication with ethics and professionalism- practice within the legal requirement and upholding the ethical principle.
2. Compounding sterile and non- sterile product according to the recognized guidelines and standard of practice.
3. Safe and effective patient care in partnership with the patient and in collaboration with other health professionals, meet the patient’s health and drug-related needs to achieve the patient’s health goals.
4. Communication- maintains effective and consistent communication system.
5. Quality & safety- pharmacovigilance program to ensure quality, safety and integrity of product, create a culture of patient safety.
Qualification
Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmacy – UAE nationals ONLY
Fluent in English and Arabic
