Locum Pharmacist at NSIA-LUTH Cancer Center (NLCC)

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Review patient’s medication prescriptions for errors, drug selection, dosing, contraindications, and potential drug interactions.
• Proper filling, dispensing and labelling of medications.
• Provide medication information in form of counselling to patients and patients’ relatives. 
• Pharmacovigilance- Identify, resolve, prevent, and document potential and actual medication-related problems.
• Completes pharmacy operational requirements by organizing and directing technicians' work flow; verifying their preparation and labeling of pharmaceuticals and verifying order entries.
• Prepare and compound medications to meet individual patient need while ensuring standard procedures are followed, minimizing pharmaceutical waste, and ensuring personnel safety when handling hazardous drugs.
• Ensure medications dispensed to patients meet the highest standards in quality and preparation of final dosage form.
• Ensure drugs are stored under appropriate storage conditions as specified by the manufacturer.
• Collaborate with other health care professionals to plan, monitor, review, or evaluate the quality or effectiveness of drugs or drug regimens in order to improve treatment outcomes
• Advises other health care practitioners about proper medication therapies for patients.
• Monitor inventory by ensuring the Pharmacy technician as proper records of pharmacy consumables, medical consumables and routine drugs;

Perform  other  duties  as  maybe  assignment  within     the unit;
JOB REQUIREMENT

• A minimum of a Bachelor of Pharmacy (B. Pharm.) A Master’s Degree would be an added advantage.
• Must have completed NYSC
• Must have a current license
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience
• Experience as a community Pharmacist will be an added advantage
• Good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Excellent relationship management and business development skills
• Credibility, professionalism, and confidence to implement best practices
• Proactive problem-solving approach.
• Stress tolerance.
• Attention to detail
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Strong organizational and time management skills.