Doctor of Pharmacy or other advanced degree highly preferred.

Completion of PGY-2 Specially Pharmacy Residency is preferred.

Knowledge of contemporary hospital /clinical practice and service.

• To understand and audit the variance in Prescriptions, restricted abbreviations usage.
• To implement the Antibiotic policy and usage guidelines of Restricted Antibiotics prescription in Hospital.
• To facilitate pharmaceutical care services, direct patient care programs medication utilization systems within assigned services and care areas to assure drug utilization activities are aligned with patient care needs, evidence-based best practices, and regulatory standards.
• To designs and implements stewardship activities and restriction/surveillance programmes.
• Tracks and evaluates assigned pharmacy programs for operational, quality, and financial efficiency and routinely benchmarks against local and national best practices.
• Actively identifies practice related issues which require evaluation and facilitate clinical research projects quality improvement initiatives, or healthcare provider education as needed to advance practice.
• Develops and oversees policies and procedures for drug purchasing drug usage drug distribution, and drug control.
• Assures pharmacy is an integral part of the health-care delivery system and facilitates enhancement and expansion of pharmacy services/ programmes.
• Maintains proficiency in decentralized pharmacy services and clinical pharmacy programmes.
• Clinical Pharmacist will be responsible for documenting adverse drug reaction, medical device related adverse event and medication errors.
• Work as an active member of multidisciplinary team and collaborates with healthcare providers within decentralized patient care areas to provide patient-centred care.
• Identifies high-risk patients and implements interventions to improve quality and safety.
• Makes appropriate evidence-based, patient-centred medication recommendations.
• Participates in the management of medical emergencies
• Provides discharge medication review, reconciliation and counselling as appropriate.
• Maintains proficiency in hospital computer systems and medication ordering systems.
• Provides accurate, safe, timely and appropriate medication therapy based on patient age and needs.
• Completes critical patient monitoring and reviews patient profile/chart to identify, prevent or mitigate drug-related problems, improper drug or dose selection, sub therapeutic dosage, over dosage, adverse drug reactions, drug interactions, failure to receive drugs, untreated indications medication use without an indication and treatment failures.
• Communicates effectively and appropriately with healthcare providers and caregivers (physicians, nurses, etc.) and assures continuity of pharmaceutical care between shifts and among staff.
• Actively participates in stewardship activities and restricted medication programs.
• Maintains proficiency and actively engages in operational programs, central dispensing pharmacies, satellite dispensing pharmacies and specialty pharmacy areas as appropriate for job assignment.
• Facilitates specialty medication procurement, ordering and dispensing procedures including but not limited to chemotherapy, parenteral nutrition, controlled substances, etc. as appropriate for assignment.
• Oversees pharmacy operations and technician practice/ activities.
• Identifies, designs and implements improvements in the medication-use system to advance patient safety, maximize therapeutic outcomes or control costs.