Senior Pharmacist

1. Supervises and directs the staff to provide professional, safe and timely pharmaceutical services to the patients. 2. Develops, coordinates, implements and ensures compliance with all Fakeeh Care and pharmacy services policies and procedures and ensures compliance of staff with accreditations standards. 3. Schedules staff as required to be sure of the smooth of work especially during peak hours. 4. Evaluates, develops and implements at all times best practice recommendations related to medication safety. 5. Ensures that medication verification and medication dispensing in outpatient pharmacy meets set time frames. 6. Conducts periodic performance evaluation of the inpatient pharmacy staff and gives the staff constructive feedback. 7. Reports the nearly expired medicines (within 6 months) to medical stockroom, ensures return when applicable and subtracts from the inventory. 8. Troubleshoots variations and problems that could arise from day to day work. 9. Reviews on monthly basis outpatient pharmacy indicators and addresses variations by developing performance improvement projects. 10. Ensures that inventory of narcotic and controlled drugs is done every shift and re-check it. 11. Ensures that pharmacists do the inventory of medicines and re-checks the inventory. 12. Provides training and detailed orientation for newly hired staff. 13. Promotes, encourages and assists pharmacy personnel in their self-development. 14. Works on self-development by enrolling in continuous education program regarding medication management practices, high risk medications, medication errors and others. 15. Evaluates, develops and implements best practice recommendations related to medication safety. 16. 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. 17. Educates patients and their families about health conditions, treatments and preventative measures if applicable. 18. Duties if assigned to verification desk: Verifies every medication order for doses, duration, drug to drug interaction and clinical indication 19. Other duties as assigned within the scope of responsibility and requirements of the job.