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Job Title: Clinical Pharmacist

Location: Andheri

Department: Inpatient / Outpatient

Qual:  PharmD or M. Pharm (Clinical Pharmacy) Registered Pharmacist in India

Experience: PharmD: 0-3 years of clinical experience / MPharm: 3-6 years of clinical experience.

Job Purpose

To work collaboratively with the Deputy Medical Director and all healthcare professionals to provide comprehensive Clinical Pharmacy Services and ensuring the Medication management and use practices are safe and effective at Andheri Unit.

Key Responsibilities

Service

• To work with the multidisciplinary team to enhance patient safety by ensuring the safe, appropriate and cost-effective use of medicines for the patients. including therapies such as chemotherapy and immunosuppressant.
• To conduct audits of patients’ medical and medication records to recognize and discern medication errors, drug interactions, and adverse drug events; and also assessing the potential risk & strategies to manage such risks and making clinical interventions to ensure the appropriate use of medications throughout the hospital.
• To conduct Drug Utilization Reviews (DUR) to study the medication usage pattern & process ensuring appropriate use of medications.
• To detect, analyze and prevent or manage any concerns associated with drug-related problems and to make appropriate evidence-based patient-centric medication therapy recommendations or practices and processes.
• To participate in an interdisciplinary patient care rounds and intervene and communicate the follow-up about the therapeutic changes, if any with the clinical team. including patients admitted for transplant as well as critical care areas.
• To assist HOD and other hospital team members in designing policies and procedures ensuring safe, effective, and appropriate use of medication management process.
• To discuss all the concerns pertaining to the medication management and use process with the relevant Committee members.
• To coordinate Pharmacy & Therapeutic Committee meetings every month.
• To participate in all interdepartmental meetings and committees and fulfill all the responsibilities as assigned.
• Prepare departmental MIS as per the calendar.
• Any other responsibilities as assigned by the HOD from time to time.

Growth

• Participate in health programs in the hospital, Outreach activities or communities for prevention and treatment of injuries or illnesses
• Provide medication formulary support to new clinics, specialties for further growth of the hospital

Quality

• To identify and report medication errors and adverse drug reactions to the Quality team, thus helping to improve the quality of care.
• Ensure quality assurance, quality improvement programs and safety related activities are adhered to across the department
• Ensure adherence to internationally accepted standards of care, including but not limited to those recommended by JCI, NABH and other quality systems
• Support in documentation for accreditation activities.

Finance

• To manage the Hospital Drug Formulary on a continual basis.
• To evaluate and provide inputs on new drug products, generic molecules, formulations to the Pharmacy & Therapeutic Committee (PTC).
• To evaluate and provide inputs on any updates (like addition or deletion of drug products) in the existing Hospital Drug Formulary to the Pharmacy & Therapeutic Committee (PTC).
• To identify high-cost and high-use drug agents within the defined areas of practice and participate in financial management initiatives (like revenue generation, cost containment, etc.)
• To recommend generic substitutions and therapeutic interchanges without affecting the quality of patient care, to achieve the business plan.
• To provide suggestions / feedback to further improvise Clinical Pharmacy Services and growth of the Clinical Pharmacy department.

People

• Support HR in selection and onboarding of the most suitable and competent team members
• Set the goals for team members and be responsible for performance evaluation / assessment / appraisals. Drive high performance and professional excellence
• Ensure induction / orientation training of functional and technical skills of the team members.
•  To oversee the activities of Ward Pharmacists and to ensure that all the key responsibilities assigned are completed on time.
• To organize and conduct trainings to the Doctors, Nurses, and Ward Pharmacists on safe, effective, and appropriate Medication management and use process.

Innovation & Research

• To share the details of Adverse Drug Reactions observed in the hospital with to the Central Drug Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) under the National Pharmacovigilance Programme of India.
• Keep up-to-dated about latest developments in medicine products, clinical field and treatment strategies.

Core Competencies

• Knowledge about departmental policies and SOPs
• Knowledge about trends in medication / drug use processes
• Knowledge about JCI / NABH standards
• Knowledge about Patient Safety
• Use of HIS
• Interpersonal Skills