Clinical Pharmacist (UAE National)

Role Overview

Clinical Pharmacist position at SEHA Hospitals. This role is designated for UAE Nationals and is based in the United Arab Emirates.

Role Purpose

The Clinical Pharmacist is responsible for optimizing patient medication therapy, ensuring safe and effective use of medicines, and providing expert pharmaceutical care within hospital and clinical settings. The role involves close collaboration with physicians, nurses, and multidisciplinary healthcare teams to develop, monitor, and review patient-specific treatment plans while promoting evidence-based practice and medication safety.

Key Responsibilities

Clinical Patient Care

• Optimize patient care in defined wards and units by planning, managing, monitoring, advising and reviewing specialist pharmaceutical care programs for patients.
• Undertake medication review and history of newly admitted patients to identify problems or medication issues that may influence the patients' treatment plan, including simplifying complex regimes for patients in designated wards.
• Formulate treatment plans for inpatients, considering their presenting symptoms, medical history including previous responses to medication, and the evidence base for pharmacological approaches in that condition.
• Present treatment plans at multidisciplinary meetings for discussion and review.
• Discuss future treatment options with patients and carers, providing patient-specific information and discussion of risks and benefits of various options to aid concordance.
• Assume responsibility for patient-specific pharmacotherapy plan to ensure optimal outcomes.
• Conduct clinical evaluations to assess medication use appropriateness.
• Actively participate in patient care rounds with other members of the healthcare team.
• Interpret laboratory tests and other diagnostic tools to assess safety and effectiveness of drug therapy for individual patients.
• Recommend changes to practice and policy in line with updated evidence-based medicine.
• Optimize patient compliance with prescribed treatments by planning and delivering medication education to patients and carers on an individual or group basis prior to discharge.

Medication Management & Safety

• Review medication orders and patient medication profiles for appropriateness of therapy.
• Verify and monitor medication orders for drug interactions, duplication and omission therapy, allergies, adverse reactions, and recommend appropriate formulary alternatives as needed.
• Calculate and confirm pharmaceutical dosage, including pediatric doses, IV admixtures, TPN, and chemotherapy.
• Follow appropriate procedures for dispensing medication prescriptions.
• Ensure that medications are stored appropriately and securely.
• Supervise the safe and competent use of all pharmacy equipment used in their area of practice.
• Demonstrate competency in the use of all equipment, patient appliances and aids used in their service area.

Clinical Review & Audit

• Conduct clinical review of drugs for addition or deletion from formulary.
• Conduct clinical audits and chart review on patient profiles to ensure the accuracy, legality, safety and efficacy of prescribed medications in line with federal and local regulations as well as international standards.
• Document therapeutic recommendations in the patient's medical record and pharmacy intervention forms.

Collaboration & Communication

• Liaise with physicians, nurses and other fellow healthcare professionals to ensure the delivery of safe, effective and economic drug treatment.
• Provide regular attendance at multidisciplinary team meetings and medication review sessions, making clinical decisions and able to support these when challenged with a logical rationale and evidence base.
• Provide specialist advice and information on the safe, cost-effective and evidence-based use of medication.
• Act as drug information and education resource for patients, students, colleagues, medical and nursing staff, and other healthcare professionals.

Quality & Compliance

• Participate effectively in quality improvement and medication safety initiatives related to their service area.
• Implement pharmaceutical care initiatives based on local, organization-wide and national guidelines relevant to needs of patients and medication management frameworks.
• Conduct compliance with all regulatory, safety and quality control programs and procedures for service area as applicable, including regulatory licensing, accreditation standards, organizational policies and procedures.
• Ensure implementation of medication management and use policies and procedures related to their service area.
• Ensure patient confidentiality.
• Report all incidents and complaints at service level immediately for appropriate action to be taken, as per organization's policy.

Departmental & Professional Development

• Supervise junior staff and ensure their abidance to all rules and policies as applied and implemented in the section, department or organization, as per requirement.
• Participate in department, organization and regulatory bodies' clinical projects.
• Advise the manager on potential service developments within own clinical area of work, and any associated procedural changes arising from suggested initiatives.
• Participate in training and education sessions for department staff and other healthcare professionals in the safe and secure handling of drugs and equipment, prescribing when applicable, administration and treatment management, including teaching, induction, peer review, case studies, and clinical presentations.
• Participate in department programs and committees, various hospital committees and staff meetings, as assigned.
• Participate in the orientation and training of new employees.
• Participate as required in investigational drug research programs and clinical initiatives.
• Maintain professional knowledge by attending lectures, seminars or online education units.
• Complete and maintain all regulatory requirements including licensure and certification and other mandatory training within established time frames.
• Keep abreast of all developments pertaining to pharmaceutical care and other specialty-related matters.
• Ensure appropriate internal and external sharing of information based on governing policies and procedures.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications & Experience

• BSc. Degree with at least 3 years of experience as a clinical pharmacist or with clinical responsibilities. For UAE Nationals: minimum 1 year as a clinical pharmacist or with clinical responsibilities.
• Doctor of Pharmacy Degree (Pharm D) with at least 1 year experience as a clinical pharmacist.
• Post baccalaureate Pharm D with at least 1 year experience as a clinical pharmacist.
• Post baccalaureate M.S. with at least 1 year experience as a clinical pharmacist.