Clinical Pharmacist at Life Healthcare

Critical Outputs

Effective clinical pharmacy services 

• Ensure the provision of customer focused, professional clinical pharmacy services;
• Drive implementation of available management information and tools to achieve strategic objectives and targets for clinical pharmacy in the hospital to improve patient outcomes;
• Provide workplace based support and mentoring to pharmacists to develop skills, capacity and professional competency within the pharmacy;
• Ensure effective medication reconciliations are performed, and implement enhanced therapeutic drug monitoring;
• Provide appropriate clinical pharmacy input and support for cost of care management initiatives and projects;
• Provide input into clinical pharmacy tools and guidelines aligned to the national clinical pharmacy priorities.

Professional collaboration

• Enhance cooperative and influential working relationships with doctors, microbiologists and other key functional stakeholders;
• Provide drug information and evidence based guidance and training of other health professionals as required;
• Collaborate with Nursing, Infection Prevention and the Regional Clinical Manager and to achieve key outputs.

Advanced antimicrobial stewardship

• Elevate the hospital’s performance on antimicrobial stewardship as a key focus area;
• Monitor microorganisms cultured at unit level, and compile and implement ward specific antibiograms;
• Collect and analyse AMS data to identify sustainably inappropriate utilization of antimicrobials. Drive interventions to optimise drug utilisation and stewardship, and improve safety and outcomes.

Systems, communication and reporting

• Utilise new AMS and medication surveillance software system to optimise effective stewardship and clinical practice ;
• Preparation for and active participation in internal stakeholder meetings including presentation of progress and gaps;

Patient medication safety

• Elevate the performance on medication safety management and medication adverse event interventions;
• Role in development and implementation of drug administration protocols to proactively manage risk.

External stakeholder relationships and industry visibility and profile

• Contribute to research and participate in industry conferences, relevant societies and external stakeholder meetings; 

Requirements

• Pharm, plus MSc (Med) Pharm, M. Pharm (Clinical Pharmacy), or Pharm D postgraduate degree is essential
• Relevant operational experience and application of clinical pharmacy masters in a hospital setting
• Current registration with the South African Pharmacy Council
• Contribution to appropriate industry conferences and journals would be a distinct advantage
• Computer proficiency