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.

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