Senior pharmacist

Description

• Supervises and directs the staff to provide professional, safe and timely pharmaceutical services to the

patients.

• Develops, coordinates, implements and ensures compliance with all Fakeeh Care and pharmacy services

policies and procedures and ensures compliance of staff with accreditations standards.

• Schedules staff as required to be sure of the smooth of work especially during peak hours.
• Evaluates, develops and implements at all times best practice recommendations related to medication safety.
• Ensures that medication verification and medication dispensing in outpatient pharmacy meets set time

frames.

• Conducts periodic performance evaluation of the inpatient pharmacy staff and gives the staff constructive

feedback.

• Reports the nearly expired medicines (within 6 months) to medical stockroom, ensures return when

applicable and subtracts from the inventory.

• Troubleshoots variations and problems that could arise from day to day work.
• Reviews on monthly basis outpatient pharmacy indicators and addresses variations by developing

performance improvement projects.

• Ensures that inventory of narcotic and controlled drugs is done every shift and re-check it.
• Ensures that pharmacists do the inventory of medicines and re-checks the inventory.
• Provides training and detailed orientation for newly hired staff.
• Promotes, encourages and assists pharmacy personnel in their self-development.
• Works on self-development by enrolling in continuous education program regarding medication

management practices, high risk medications, medication errors and others.

• Evaluates, develops and implements best practice recommendations related to medication safety.
• Outpatient Pharmacy Automation related functions:
• Designs quality assurance and process improvement studies to monitor and utilize the Automated Storage

and Retrieval Device in the outpatient pharmacy and all related system(s).

• Understands clinical, technical, and business workflows to achieve planned outcomes.
• Acts as Subject Matter Expert for all implemented pharmacy automation systems.
• Coordinates automation maintenance, troubleshooting, and downtime.
• Assures appropriate testing of all integrated applications.
• Provides supports to Pharmacy staff and all other stakeholders to increase adoption, improve and enhance

Pharmacy Automation solutions for high quality safe patient care, education and research.

• Oversees all Pharmacy Automation systems’ maintenance, assuring minimal impact on Pharmacy workflow.
• Educates patients and their families about health conditions, treatments and preventative measures if

applicable.

• Duties if assigned to verification desk: Verifies every medication order for doses, duration, drug to drug

interaction and clinical indication

• Other duties as assigned within the scope of responsibility and requirements of the job.

Requirements Experience:4 years’ experience with hospital pharmacy setting, including two years in outpatient hospital pharmacy

Education: Bachelor’s Degree of Pharmacy or higher

Language: Good command of oral and written English

Licenses / Certifications: License for practice as per the regional health regulatory authority e.g. (SCFHS /DHA).