Job Description

The Role

To provide and deliver safe and efficient pharmacy services in the hospital.

Key accountabilities

• Review medication orders for completeness and appropriateness, and if needed, perform and document interventions.
• Process drug orders and dispense medications to patients.
• Counsel patients (inpatients / outpatients) on their medications and provide specialised counselling if needed (e.g. warfarin, direct oral anticoagulant, inhaler, and insulin injection counselling).
• Perform medication reconciliation.
• Provide drug information to doctors, nurses and patients.
• Assist in the preparation of ad-hoc items e.g. extemporaneous preparations, reconstituted antibiotic suspensions.
• Perform store / procurement duties (if assigned).
• Perform medication-therapy related duties e.g. supply and receipt of controlled drugs, supply of drug stocks to patient care units, adverse drug reaction reporting, drug usage monitoring, etc.
• Adhere to legal and hospital policy requirements.
• Participate in quality assurance activities e.g. ward inspections/expiry checks (as assigned).
• Collate records relating to drug supply, storage and distribution as required by hospital and legal regulations (i.e. JCI, MOH standards).
• Participate in continuing professional education (CPE) programmes.
• Assist in the training and supervision of pharmacy assistants and technicians.
• Assist in providing clinical experience to pre-registration pharmacists and students on attachment (if applicable).
• Perform extension hours, night duties and/or on-call duties (as assigned).

• Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from an accredited college of pharmacy or university
• Registered with Singapore Pharmacy Council
• Preferably with working experience in hospital setting.

Parkway Shenton