Senior Outpatient Pharmacist

Job Summary

leads the daily operations of a hospital outpatient pharmacy, ensuring safe medication dispensing while managing inventory, staff, and clinical workflows. act as a crucial link between junior staff and pharmacy management.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Operational Management: Overseeing the daily functioning of the outpatient dispensary, managing pharmacy stock, inventory control, and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
2. Prescription & Dispensing: Clinical screening and checking of outpatient prescriptions.
3. Clinical & Medical Service & Care: Providing medication counseling to patients.
4. Regulatory compliance: Monitoring of the proper implementation of rules & regulations.
5. Leadership & Staff Training:
   1. Mentoring and training new pharmacy staff and technicians.
   2. Communicates to new staff newly approved policies, procedures, forms and guidelines & ensures their applications & implementation.
   3. Complete performance appraisal of subordinates.
   4. Coordination: Working closely with doctors and nursing staff & clinical team to ensure smooth patient care & Participate in the improvement projects in the unit.
6. Scheduling of staff working hours and shifts to ensure maximal efficiency:
   1. Monitors work load in the area and communicates changes to the direct manager.
   2. Handles leave requests from the area, breaks, sick leaves , overtime & any unusual circumferences.
7. Collaboration with multidisciplinary team.
8. Ensure the proper implementation of the financial rules related to insurance, cash , petty cash and invoicing system.
9. Ensures  a proper inventory of medications is maintained:
   1. Perform period checks on inventory and match against computer stock.
   2. Maintain the availability of the medications.
   3. Perform period checks on the batches & expiry date of medications.
   4. Audits billing data to ensure appropriate billing.
   5. Reports to administration on stock differences & discrepancies.
       

Education

•  Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy or Doctor of Pharmacy Degree.

Licenses Required 

• Valid Ministry of Health Pharmacist license to ensure regulatory compliance.
• JPA membership.

Skills, knowledge and Qualifications 

• Critical thinking to integrate facts, informed opinions, active listening, and observations.
• Decision making, problem solving and collaboration.
• Excellent counseling skills and ability to relate to the community and varied learning levels.
• Strong interpersonal skills to establish productive working relationships with multidisciplinary team and support services.
• Ability to communicate effectively in both written and verbal form to patients, pubic, medical staff, and physicians.
• Ability to organize tasks and function independently.
• Ability to counsel and motivate others, as individuals and as a group.
• Good oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Proficiency in English and Arabic. 

Experience 

• Minimum 6 years of experience in pharmacy practice including medication dispensing & compounding, safe handling of cytotoxic agents, drug utilization, patient education and counseling in a hospital setting. 

Working conditions & Physical requirements

• Fixed 8 – 12 duty hours to meet operational needs.
• Fast paced environment.
• Touring the facility daily.