Clinical Pharmacist

Job Title: Clinical Pharmacist

Location: Clinix Botshelong-Empilweni Private Hospital (Vosloorus).

Job Summary:

To provide clinical pharmaceutical services at hospital facilities in accordance with policies, standards and regulations.

Minimum Qualifications and experience:

• Pharm and / MSc (Med) Pharm or M. Pharm (Clinical Pharmacy)
• 5 – 7 years’ experience in a clinical pharmacy environment.
• Hospital experience is non-negotiable.
• Relevant operational experience and application of clinical pharmacy masters in a hospital setting (non-negotiable).

Minimum Job Requirements:

Lead assigned patient service lines and therapeutic programmes

• In collaboration with Group Clinical Pharmacist, ensure the adoption of medication utilisation frameworks, standards and system at hospitals.
• Facilitates pharmaceutical care services, direct patent care programme, medication utilisation systems and care areas to assure medicine utilisation activities are aligned with patient care needs, best practice and regulatory standards.
• Monitor and review profiles / chart to identify, prevent or mitigate drug related problems, improper medicine use or dose selection, over-indications, medication without indication and treatment failures.
• Implement stewardship activities and surveillance programmes.
• Track and evaluate assigned pharmacy programmes at the facility for quality and routinely benchmark against local and international best practice.
• Ensure clinical pharmacy is an integral part of health-care delivery system by actively collaborating with healthcare providers within the facility.
• Work within established parameters, protocols and frameworks for medicine use and control.
• Identify high risk patients and implement interventions to improve quality and safety.
• Make appropriate evidence based, patient-centred medicine recommendation.

Provide pharmaceutical services throughout the hospital facility

• Ensure all transactions are recorded and reported on the approved platforms and systems.
• Provides accurate, safe and timely medicine therapy based on individual patient need.
• Follow the established escalation processes pertaining to clinical pharmacy.
• Ensure recommendations considers cost beneficial initiatives adopted in the group.