Clinical Pharmacist (UAE National)
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About the Role
SEHA seeks a Clinical Pharmacist (UAE National) to optimize patient medication therapy and provide expert pharmaceutical care. The role involves collaborating with healthcare teams, conducting medication reviews, and ensuring safe and effective use of medicines.
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Responsibilities
- Optimize patient care in defined wards/units by planning, managing, monitoring, advising and reviewing specialist pharmaceutical care programs
- Undertake medication review/history of newly admitted patients to identify problems or medication issues
- Formulate treatment plans for inpatients considering presenting symptoms, medical history, and evidence base
- Discuss future treatment options with patients/carers
- Conduct clinical evaluations to assess medication use appropriateness
- Review medication orders and patient medication profiles for appropriateness of therapy
- Verify and monitor medication orders for drug interactions, duplication, omissions, allergies, adverse reactions
- Calculate and confirm pharmaceutical dosage (paediatric doses, IV admixtures, TPN, chemotherapy, etc)
- Liaise with physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals to ensure safe, effective and economic drug treatment
- Interpret laboratory tests and other diagnostic tools to assess safety and effectiveness of drug therapy
- Document therapeutic recommendations in patient’s medical record and pharmacy intervention forms
- Provide specialist advice and information on safe, cost effective and evidenced based use of medication
Requirements
- BSc Degree with at least 3 years of experience as a clinical pharmacist or with clinical responsibilities
- UAE National: NLT 1 year as clinical pharmacist or with clinical responsibilities
- Doctor of Pharmacy Degree (Pharm D): at least 1 year experience as a clinical pharmacist
- Post baccalaureate Pharm D: at least 1 year experience as a clinical pharmacist
- Post baccalaureate M.S: at least 1 year experience as a clinical pharmacist
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Job Description
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Supervise junior staff and ensure their abidance to going rules and policies as applied and implemented in the section/department/organization, as per requirement.
- Participate in department/organization/regulatory bodies’ clinical projects.
- Optimize patient care in defined wards/units by planning, managing, monitoring, advising and reviewing specialist pharmaceutical care programs for patients.
- Undertake a medication review/ 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.
- Discuss future treatment options with patients /carers.
- Assume responsibility for patient specific pharmacotherapy plan to ensure optimal outcomes.
- Conduct clinical evaluations to assess medication use appropriateness.
- Conduct clinical review of drugs for addition/deletion from formulary.
- Actively participate in patient care rounds with other members of the healthcare team.
- 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.
Education
- Participate in training and education sessions for department staff and other healthcare professionals in the safe and secure handling of drugs and equipment, prescribing (whenever applicable), administration and treatment and management i.e. teaching, induction, peer review, case studies, and clini
- Participate in department programs/committees, various hospital committees and staff meetings, as assigned.
- Participate in the orientation and training of new employees.
- Ensure appropriate internal and external sharing of information based on governing policies and procedures.
- Maintain professional knowledge by attending lectures, seminars or on line 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.
Qualifications
- BSc. Degree at least 3 years of experience as a clinical pharmacist or with clinical responsibilities.
- UAE National: NLT 1 year as clinical pharmacist or with clinical responsibilities.
- Doctor of Pharmacy Degree ( Pharm D) : at least 1 year experience as a clinical pharmacist.
- Post baccalaureate Pharm D : at least 1 year experience as a clinical pharmacist.
- Post baccalaureate M.S: at least 1 year experience as a clinical pharmacist.
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