1. Job Information:
Job Title: Clinical Pharmacist / Hospital Pharmacist
Department: Hospital Pharmacy
Reporting Line: Head of Pharmacy Department / Medical Director
2. Main Purpose of the Job:
Ensuring the safe, effective, and economical distribution of medications and medical supplies, and providing pharmaceutical care to patients in collaboration with the medical team, while fully adhering to professional and health standards as well as hospital policies.
3. Main Tasks and Responsibilities:
Dispensing Prescriptions: Reviewing and accurately dispensing required medications for inpatient and outpatient departments, ensuring freedom from drug interactions or incorrect dosages.
Clinical Pharmacy Care: Participating in medical rounds with physicians to review patients' drug treatment plans and providing pharmaceutical consultations to improve therapeutic outcomes.
Inventory Management and Control: Monitoring inventory of medications and medical supplies, expiration dates, ordering shortages, and ensuring appropriate storage conditions (such as refrigerator temperatures).
Special Medication Preparation: Supervising or preparing sterile intravenous solutions, chemotherapy drugs, and special mixtures according to aseptic techniques.
Monitoring Side Effects: Monitoring and recording any adverse drug reactions (ADR) or medication errors, and reporting them to the competent authorities within the hospital (pharmacovigilance program).
Patient Education: Providing guidance to patients and their families on how to use medications correctly and their timing upon discharge from the hospital.
Compliance and Standards: Adhering to infection control policies, quality standards, and hospital accreditations (such as CBAHI or JCI).
4. Requirements and Qualifications:
Education: Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy (preferably holding a Doctor of Pharmacy Pharm-D degree or postgraduate studies in clinical pharmacy).
Licensing: Valid license to practice the profession from the Ministry of Health or relevant health authority, with accredited professional registration.
Experience: Experience of not less than (1 to 3 years) working in a hospital or advanced medical center.
Personal and Technical Skills:
Proficiency in using electronic hospital information systems (HIS / Pharmacy Information Systems).
Excellent communication and teamwork skills with medical and nursing staff.
High accuracy and attention to detail, with the ability to work under pressure and in various shifts.