You will be responsible for providing general clinical pharmacy services in direct patient care settings independently or in collaboration with a multidisciplinary healthcare team to promote wellness and optimize medication therapy outcomes for patients with a broad range of disease states.
Job Description
- Provide general clinical pharmacy services in assigned patient care areas/services.
- Participate within a multidisciplinary health care team to ensure optimization of medication therapy and outcomes for patients.
- Identify and define patient-specific medical problems, recommend, implement, and manage patient pharmacotherapy, review, counsel, dispense, and/or supply medications as needed, provide ongoing monitoring and adjustment of patient's drug therapy, resolve and/or prevent patient's drug-related problems by departmental policies and procedures, work and/or consult with other health care providers to improve patient outcomes.
- Promote and monitor for adherence to prescribing guidelines or drug use protocols.
- Provide professional advice and evidence-based drug information to patients, pharmacy students, and the health care team.
- Work with patients, caregivers, and other health care providers to ensure safe, cost-effective, timely distribution and quality use of medication that will best meet the patient's needs, achieve desired patient outcomes, and assure continuity of services.
- Communicate with patients and/or caregivers on a group or individual basis to ensure understanding of prescribed drugs, to resolve or prevent drug-related problems, and to assure optimal patient cooperation in drug therapy.
- Document clinical activities as defined in the competency development framework and/or department guidelines.
- Serve on departmental clinical practice committees and/or other relevant committees as assigned.
Requirements
- Preferably possess Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy
- Registered with the Singapore Pharmacy Council
- Postgraduate qualifications relevant to the practice of hospital pharmacy
- Experience in hospital pharmacy desirable.
- Possess strong communication and supervisory skills.
- Proven ability to manage pharmacy operations over at least 12 months.
- Possess leadership qualities.
- Ability to work with pharmacy, medical, nursing, and other hospital personnel.
- Active in research in various aspects of the pharmacy profession
EA Licence: 17C8713
