Hospital Pharmacist at Aga Khan University

Ref No: 08/008

Key Responsibilities:
The Pharmacist will ensure correct interpretation of prescriptions and physician orders at both in-patient and out-patient levels to enable accurate compounding, dispensing, patient education and handling of pharmaceutical supplies for all orders.

The specific duties will include;

• Prepare, compound and dispense drugs and other pharmaceutical supplies;
• Review written prescriptions for dose, drug interactions and assure that drugs are dispensed in proper manner, to maintain quality standards of the department;
• Orally explain directions for using drugs to patients, for optimum customer satisfaction;
• Participate in ward rounds to enhance patient pharmaceutical care;
• Communicate directly with physicians, nurses and other health care providers to relate information regarding patient drug therapy;
• Maintain prescription record, for proper maintenance of records, and retrieval;
• Maintain accurate documentation of all interventions and recommendations regards drug therapy and their outcomes;
• Compute and record prescription charges, for financial information purposes;
• Maintain control over distribution and usage of all drugs, and strict control over usage of controlled drugs such as narcotics, for compliance with policy on dangerous drugs, and avoid misuse.
• Maintain and update personal drug knowledge data base to ensure accurate provision of pharmaceutical care of general disease states.

Requirements:

• Applicants for the above position must have a Bachelors of Science Degree in Pharmacy and a Practicing License from the Pharmacy and Poisons Board of Kenya.
• S/he should be registered with Pharmaceutical Society of Kenya and have a minimum of 2 years hospital experience working in pharmaceutical services.
• Clinical pharmacy experience and evidence of continuous education will be an added advantage.