Pharmacist
Position: Pharmacist
Qualification: B. Pharm
Experience: 3 to 4 years
Job Description:
- Check prescriptions for errors, ensuring they’re appropriate and safe for the individual patient
- Provide advice on the dosage of medicines and the most appropriate form of medication, which could be by tablet, injection, ointment or inhalation
- Liaise with other medical staff on problems, patients may experience when taking their medicines
- Make sure medicines are stored appropriately and securely
- Supervise the work of less experienced and less qualified staff
- Answer questions about medicines from within the hospital, other hospitals and the general public
- Write guidelines for drug use within the hospital and implement hospital regulations
- Issuing of medicines as per prescriptions with proper receipts
- Provide information on expenditure on drugs
- Prepare and quality-check sterile medications, for example, intravenous medications
- Excellent communication skills for dealing with patients and health professionals
- The ability to work carefully, methodically and accurately with medicines and doses – this is vital as mistakes could prove fatal
- IT skills for recording information
- Interpersonal skills and a caring and sympathetic manner, as the work usually involves contact with patients on the wards and in outpatient departments
- A responsible attitude to work
- Teamwork skills
- General clinical awareness.
- If you have supervisory responsibility, you will also require effective management and leadership skills.
- Maintain accurate inventory of medications including record keeping of schedule H drugs
- Offer information to assist patients in understanding how to properly take their prescribed medications
- Work with the pharmaceutical staff to maintain a clean, customer-friendly workplace
- Assist patients in solving problems, such as identifying old medication