Pharmacist at Lily Hospitals Limited

The role is responsible for dispensing prescribed medications to patients and offering expertise in the safe use of prescriptions. The pharmacist also provides advice on how to lead a healthy lifestyle, conducts health and wellness screenings and oversee the medications given to patients.

 Key Result Areas (KRA)

The key result areas of this role are:

Medication Administration

• Check prescriptions to ensure that there are no errors and that they are appropriate and safe for the individual patient.
• Discuss treatments with patients or patients' relatives.
• Dispense medications by compounding, packaging and labeling pharmaceuticals.
• Control medications by monitoring drug therapies.
• Monitor patient medication compliance and over-usage patterns.

Counseling

• Provide advice on the dosage of medicines and the most appropriate form of medication for individual patient, for example, tablet, injection, ointment or inhaler.
• Provide pharmacological information by answering questions and requests of health care professionals and counseling patients on drug therapies.
• Provide advices on selection of Over-The-Counter medications to treat common illnesses such as flu, cold sores, or headaches.

Administrative Duties

• Ensure proper management of patient records and pharmacy files.
• Maintain appropriate inventory on pharmaceutical and medical supplies.

Supervisory Duties

• Participate in ward rounds, take patient drug histories and make decisions on appropriate treatments.
• Supervise the work flow of pharmacy assistants and technicians by verifying their preparation and labeling of pharmaceuticals, verifying order entries, charges and inspections.
• Prepare and carry out a quality-check on sterile medications such as intravenous medications.
• Ensure retrieval of all chronic disease patient’s PA code from the respective HOM
• Health and Safety
• Ensure medicines are stored appropriately and securely.
• Provide guidelines for drug use within the hospital and implement regulations.
• Maintain safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
• Liaison
• Liaise with other medical staff or clinicians on problems patients may experience when taking their medications and obtain best medication therapy for patients.

Health Regulations

Comply with state and federal drug laws as regulated by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration (NAFDAC), by monitoring nursing unit inspections, maintaining records for controlled substances, removing outdated and damaged drugs from the pharmacy inventory, maintaining current registration; studying existing and new legislation; and advising management on needed actions.

The Person

• Minimum academic qualification of a Bachelor’s degree (B.Pharm) in Pharmacy
• 2 to 5 years relevant work experience preferably in a clinical or community setting.
• Membership of relevant professional bodies such as the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN).
• Knowledge of the Microsoft office package.
• Excellent analytical skills and scientific aptitude.
• Excellent communication (oral and written), interpersonal and people management skills.