Clinical Practice Pharmacist
A vacancy exists for a Clinical Pharmacist at Life Mt Edgecombe, reporting to Prisantha Moodley, Pharmacy Manager. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading, managing, coordinating, monitoring and driving improvement in the clinical pharmacy services within the hospital.
Duties & Responsibilities
Effective Clinical Pharmacy Services · Ensure the provision of customer focused, professional clinical pharmacy services;· Drive implementation of available management information and tools to achieve strategic objectives and targets for clinical pharmacy in the hospital to improve patient outcomes;· Provide workplace based support and mentoring to pharmacists and nursing staff to develop skills, capacity and professional competency within the hospital;· Ensure effective medication reconciliations are performed, and implement enhanced therapeutic drug monitoring;· Provide appropriate clinical pharmacy input and support for cost of care management initiatives and projects;· Provide input into clinical pharmacy tools and guidelines aligned to the national clinical pharmacy priorities.Professional collaboration· Enhance cooperative and influential working relationships with doctors, microbiologists and other key functional stakeholders;· Provide drug information and evidence based guidance and training of other health professionals as required;· Collaborate with Nursing, Infection Prevention and the Regional Clinical Manager to achieve key outputs.Advanced antimicrobial stewardship· Elevate the hospital’s performance on antimicrobial stewardship as a key focus area;· Monitor microorganisms cultured at unit level, and compile and implement ward specific antibiograms; · Collect and analyse AMS data to identify sustainable inappropriate utilization of antimicrobials. Drive interventions to optimise drug utilisation and stewardship, and improve safety and outcomes.Systems, communication and reporting· Utilise new AMS and medication surveillance software system to optimise effective stewardship and clinical practice ; · Preparation for and active participation in internal stakeholder meetings including presentation of progress and gaps; Patient medication safety· Elevate the performance on medication safety management and medication adverse event interventions;· Role in development and implementation of drug administration protocols to proactively manage risk. External stakeholder relationships and industry visibility and profile · Contribute to research and participate in industry conferences, relevant societies and external stakeholder meetings;
Desired Experience & Qualification
· B.Pharm· M. Pharm in Clinical Pharmacy or relevant clinical qualification will be advantageous· Relevant operational experience and application of clinical pharmacy in a hospital setting · Current registration with the South African Pharmacy Council · Contribution to appropriate industry conferences and journals would be a distinct advantageComputer proficiency
