Senior Pharmacist

**Job Purpose**

Provide general clinical pharmacy services in direct patient care settings independently or in collaboration with a multidisciplinary health care team to promote wellness and optimize medication therapy outcomes for patients with a broad range of disease states.

Provide pharmaceutical care to defined standards and assure the quality use of medicines.

Provide education and training to trainees, pharmacy students, support staff and the public.

Provide guidance to trainees, pharmacy students and support staff and supervise their professional training and development.

**Primary Responsibilities and Duties**

**Clinical Practice**
- Provide general clinical pharmacy services in assigned patient care area/service.
- 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 in accordance with 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.

**Education and Training**
- Provide educational programs and training to trainees, pharmacy students, support staff and the public.
- Contribute to the development or publication of high quality patient education materials.
- Provide guidance to trainees, pharmacy students and support staff and supervise their professional training and development.
- Contribute to the development and implementation of pharmacy professional standards, competency framework and/or assessments for pre-registration pharmacists at departmental level.
- Participate in and contribute to continuing professional development.

**Secondary Responsibilities and Duties**
- Contribute to the review and evaluation of services, policies and processes; and contribute to the implementation of medication safety and quality improvements initiatives to ensure optimal outcomes at institution level.
- Participate, supervise and/or coordinate pharmacy activities relevant to clinical work.
- Any other duties or responsibilities as assigned.

**Requirements**:

- Possess Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from an accredited college of Pharmacy
- Registered with the Singapore Pharmacy Council
- Post graduate qualifications relevant to the practice of hospital pharmacy
- Experience in hospital pharmacy desirable but not critical
- Possess strong communication and supervisory skills
- Proven ability to manage pharmacy operations over a period of 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