Senior/Pharmacist (JR2364)
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Healthcare | Pharmacy Support | Senior Pharmacy Technician
378 ALEXANDRA ROAD SINGAPORE 159964
Job Type:
permanent or full time
Job Suitable For:
#nohashtag#skills-training
Benefits:
health & wellness benefits
training opportunities
personal development benefits
No. of Vacancies:
1
Job Description
Job Purpose
- Provide general clinical pharmacy services in direct patient care settings independently or in collaboration with a multidisciplinary health care team to promote wellness and optimize medication therapy outcomes for patients with a broad range of disease states.
- Provide pharmaceutical care to defined standards and assure the quality use of medicines.
- Provide education and training to trainees, pharmacy students, support staff and the public.
- Provide guidance to trainees, pharmacy students and support staff and supervise their professional training and development.
Primary Responsibilities and Duties
Clinical Practice
- Provide general clinical pharmacy services in assigned patient care area/service.
- Participate within a multidisciplinary health care team to ensure optimization of medication therapy and outcomes for patients.
- Identify and define patient-specific medical problems, recommend, implement and manage patient pharmacotherapy, review, counsel, dispense and/or supply medications as needed, provide ongoing monitoring and adjustment of patient's drug therapy, resolve and/or prevent patient's drug-related problems in accordance with departmental policies and procedures, work and/or consult with other health care providers to improve patient outcomes.
- Promote and monitor for adherence to prescribing guidelines or drug use protocols.
Provide professional advice and evidence-based drug information to patients, pharmacy students and the health care team.
- Work with patients, caregivers and other health care providers to ensure safe, cost-effective, timely distribution and quality use of medication that will best meet the patient's needs, achieve desired patient outcomes and assure continuity of services.
- Communicate with patients and/or caregivers on a group or individual basis to ensure understanding of prescribed drugs, to resolve or prevent drug-related problems and to assure optimal patient cooperation in drug therapy.
- Document clinical activities as defined in the competency development framework and/or department guidelines.
Serve on departmental clinical practice committees and/or other relevant committees as assigned.
Education and Training
- Provide educational programs and training to trainees, pharmacy students, support staff and the public.
- Contribute to the development or publication of high quality patient education materials.
- Provide guidance to trainees, pharmacy students and support staff and supervise their professional training and development.
- Contribute to the development and implementation of pharmacy professional standards, competency framework and/or assessments for pre-registration pharmacists at departmental level.
- Participate in and contribute to continuing professional development.
Secondary Responsibilities and Duties
- Contribute to the review and evaluation of services, policies and processes; and contribute to the implementation of medication safety and quality improvements initiatives to ensure optimal outcomes at institution level.
- Participate, supervise and/or coordinate pharmacy activities relevant to clinical work.
- Any other duties or responsibilities as assigned.
Requirements
- Possess Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from an accredited college of Pharmacy
- Registered with the Singapore Pharmacy Council
- Post graduate qualifications relevant to the practice of hospital pharmacy
- Experience in hospital pharmacy desirable but not critical
- Possess strong communication and supervisory skills
- Proven ability to manage pharmacy operations over a period of at least 12 months
- Possess leadership qualities
- Ability to work with pharmacy, medical, nursing and other hospital personnel
- Active in research in various aspects of the pharmacy profession
- Provide general clinical pharmacy services in direct patient care settings independently or in collaboration with a multidisciplinary health care team to promote wellness and optimize medication therapy outcomes for patients with a broad range of disease states.
- Provide pharmaceutical care to defined standards and assure the quality use of medicines.
- Provide education and training to trainees, pharmacy students, support staff and the public.
- Provide guidance to trainees, pharmacy students and support staff and supervise their professional training and development.
Primary Responsibilities and Duties
Clinical Practice
- Provide general clinical pharmacy services in assigned patient care area/service.
- Participate within a multidisciplinary health care team to ensure optimization of medication therapy and outcomes for patients.
- Identify and define patient-specific medical problems, recommend, implement and manage patient pharmacotherapy, review, counsel, dispense and/or supply medications as needed, provide ongoing monitoring and adjustment of patient's drug therapy, resolve and/or prevent patient's drug-related problems in accordance with departmental policies and procedures, work and/or consult with other health care providers to improve patient outcomes.
- Promote and monitor for adherence to prescribing guidelines or drug use protocols.
Provide professional advice and evidence-based drug information to patients, pharmacy students and the health care team.
- Work with patients, caregivers and other health care providers to ensure safe, cost-effective, timely distribution and quality use of medication that will best meet the patient's needs, achieve desired patient outcomes and assure continuity of services.
- Communicate with patients and/or caregivers on a group or individual basis to ensure understanding of prescribed drugs, to resolve or prevent drug-related problems and to assure optimal patient cooperation in drug therapy.
- Document clinical activities as defined in the competency development framework and/or department guidelines.
Serve on departmental clinical practice committees and/or other relevant committees as assigned.
Education and Training
- Provide educational programs and training to trainees, pharmacy students, support staff and the public.
- Contribute to the development or publication of high quality patient education materials.
- Provide guidance to trainees, pharmacy students and support staff and supervise their professional training and development.
- Contribute to the development and implementation of pharmacy professional standards, competency framework and/or assessments for pre-registration pharmacists at departmental level.
- Participate in and contribute to continuing professional development.
Secondary Responsibilities and Duties
- Contribute to the review and evaluation of services, policies and processes; and contribute to the implementation of medication safety and quality improvements initiatives to ensure optimal outcomes at institution level.
- Participate, supervise and/or coordinate pharmacy activities relevant to clinical work.
- Any other duties or responsibilities as assigned.
Requirements
- Possess Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from an accredited college of Pharmacy
- Registered with the Singapore Pharmacy Council
- Post graduate qualifications relevant to the practice of hospital pharmacy
- Experience in hospital pharmacy desirable but not critical
- Possess strong communication and supervisory skills
- Proven ability to manage pharmacy operations over a period of at least 12 months
- Possess leadership qualities
- Ability to work with pharmacy, medical, nursing and other hospital personnel
- Active in research in various aspects of the pharmacy profession
Job Criteria/Requirements
Qualifications:
Degree
Work Experience Level:
junior level
Must-have skills:
REGISTERED WITH THE SINGAPORE PHARMACY COUNCIL
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