Pharmacist

Role Overview

Pharmacist at NMC Healthcare. The role is based in the UAE and reports to the head pharmacist.

Role Purpose

Deliver comprehensive pharmaceutical services across acute care settings, ensuring full compliance with UAE regulatory standards, patient safety protocols, and clinical best practices while providing clinical pharmacy expertise to the medical team and patients.

Key Responsibilities

Clinical Pharmacy Services

• Perform full range of pharmaceutical services independently without technical direction or review under general administrative supervision of the chief pharmacist.
• Monitor patients on multiple drug therapy regimens for drug interactions, drug usage evaluation, and drug-food interactions.
• Dispense medications to patients after checking and counseling.
• Provide spontaneous dispensing of some medications.
• Answer all patients' questions regarding medications and therapies.
• Advise physicians on equivalent or substitute drugs.
• Make available to entire staff, physicians, and nurses to answer their questions on pharmaceuticals and compounding of special prescriptions.

Dosage & Pain Management

• Determine appropriate dosage and frequency of analgesics and opiate medications to ensure patients receive optimal pain relief with minimum side effects.
• Handle dosage conversion.
• Identify noxious drugs and perform subsequent safer drug replacement while supervising correct dosage and administration of drug therapies.

Sterile & Compounding Services

• Perform sterile compounding of intravenous administration under aseptic technique.
• Compound medications.

Drug Safety & Quality Assurance

• Assure drug preparation and dispensation areas throughout the assigned area are devoid of outdated or otherwise unusable drugs through frequent inspection of nursing drug cabinets, emergency trays, and crash carts.
• Recognize apparent chemical and physical changes that certain preparations undergo during storage and remove them to prevent them from reaching patients.
• Ensure proper management of near expiry drugs.
• Review drug usage patterns and suggest control measures when needed.

Compliance & Regulatory

• Prepare and maintain proper professional and administrative procedures as required by and to satisfy JCI, DOH, International Patient Safety goal standards, and UAE Government rules and regulations.
• Ensure the organization's compliance and adherence to UAE Government law, regulations, directives, and Ministerial decisions as directly related to pharmaceuticals, narcotics, controlled and psychotropic drugs.
• Strictly observe organization's medical regulations and policies, especially those related to infection control, patient safety, patient assessment, and patient care.

Clinical Leadership & Collaboration

• Participate as the medical authority on pharmaceuticals in the planning and implementation of integrated preventive-curative medical care programs and medical therapies.
• Respond to all code resuscitations.

Vaccine Management

• Engage in procurement, receiving, and storage of vaccines as mentioned in the safe handling of vaccines and cold chain maintenance policy.
• Coordinate with concerned departments during vaccine indents.
• Conduct and record monthly inspection in concerned vaccine storage areas.

Administrative & Reporting

• Maintain statistical records of workload.
• Generate drug utilization reports.
• Provide drug information and discharge counseling.
• Prepare documentation.
• Maintain patient profile.
• Participate in pharmacy education programs.
• Perform other miscellaneous duties as requested by the head pharmacist.

Qualifications & Experience

• Successfully completed and holds an accredited recognized BSc. in Pharmacy.
• Current and valid license to practice as a Pharmacist in home country.
• DOH License to practice required.
• 2 years experience in acute care facility.
• Thorough knowledge of medical ethics.

Skills & Competencies

• Excellent command of oral and written English.