Pharmacists at Vedic Lifecare Hospital

Duties & responsibilities

Reporting To: Head Pharmacist

• Provide clinical pharmaceutical care to patients.
• Prioritizes level of care based on critical needs.
• Ensuring medicinal products are stored appropriately and securely to ensure freshness and potency.
• Ensuring medication reaches the guest in the correct form and dose – this may include tablets, capsules, ointments, injections, inhalers, creams, etc.
• Responsible for the accurate dispensing and timely distribution of drugs and medicines for inpatients or outpatients.
• Counseling patients on the effects, dosage and route of administration of their drug treatments, particularly those who require complex drug therapy.
• Responding to medication-related queries from within the hospital, other healthcare service providers and the general public.
• Prevents, detects, and resolves medication-related problems and to make appropriate evidence-based, guest-centered medication therapy recommendations.
• Appropriately document clinical interventions.
• Supervising and checking the work of less experienced and less qualified staff;
• Keeping up to date with, and contributing to, research and development, often in collaboration with medical staff and colleagues in the pharmaceutical industry.
• Writing guidelines for drug use within the hospital, preparing bulletins and implementing hospital regulations.
• Providing information to individual wards on budgets and expenditure on drugs.
• Actively participates in code-12 and practice specific hospital alert response when necessary.
• Setting up clinical trials, evaluating new medications against claims made by pharmaceutical companies and recommending new medicines that are the safest and most effective for individual guest needs.
• Demonstrates quality and safety in the distribution process.
• Actively collaborates and demonstrates teamwork with Pharmacy teams to ensure drug distribution is communicated and delivered safely and effectively.
• Ensures that information for patients and staff is delivered in a manner that is supportive, timely and understandable.
• Ensures that the in and out of your unit is clean at all times to keep it free from infection.
• In case of emergency follow emergency protocols / SOPs.
• Any other task / assignment given by the Head Pharmacist.

Job requirements

• Successful canddiate must possess a minimum of Bachelor of Pharmacy/Doctor of Pharmacy
• Minimum of 2 years post-NYSC experience
• Good communication skills, Interpersonal relationship skills, Good decision making, friendly with a pleasant personality, Team player, etc.