Pharmacist at Vedic Lifecare Hospital

Vedic Lifecare Hospital is a multidisciplinary hospital with a team of specialists in various fields of medicine.Our quest is to expand healthcare practices through our team of doctors and other medical practitioners by providing our esteemed patients affordable and impactful healthcare services at all times. Vedic is located at Block 105, Plot 6, Olabanji Olajide Street, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Pharmacist

Location: Lekki, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• Provides clinical pharmaceutical care to patients.
• Prioritizes level of care based on critical needs.
• Ensuring medicinal products are stored appropriately and securely to ensure freshness and potency.
• Ensuring medication reaches the guest in the correct form and dose – this may include tablets, capsules, ointments, injections, inhalers, creams, etc.
• Responsible for the accurate dispensing and timely distribution of drugs and medicines for inpatients or outpatients.
• Counseling patients on the effects, dosage and route of administration of their drug treatments, particularly those who require complex drug therapy.
• Responding to medication-related queries from within the hospital, other healthcare service providers and the general public.
• Prevents, detects, and resolves medication-related problems and to make appropriate evidence-based, guest-centered medication therapy recommendations.
• Appropriately document clinical interventions.
• Supervising and checking the work of less experienced and less qualified staff;
• Keeping up to date with, and contributing to, research and development, often in collaboration with medical staff and colleagues in the pharmaceutical industry.
• Writing guidelines for drug use within the hospital, preparing bulletins and implementing hospital regulations.
• Providing information to individual wards on budgets and expenditure on drugs.
• Actively participates in code-12 and practice specific hospital alert response when necessary.
• Setting up clinical trials, evaluating new medications against claims made by pharmaceutical companies and recommending new medicines that are the safest and most effective for individual guest needs.
• Demonstrates quality and safety in the distribution process.
• Actively collaborates and demonstrates teamwork with Pharmacy teams to ensure drug distribution is communicated and delivered safely and effectively.
• Ensures that information for patients and staff is delivered in a manner that is supportive, timely and understandable.
• Ensures that the in and out of your unit is clean at all times to keep it free from infection.
• In case of emergency follow emergency protocols / SOPs.
• Any other task / assignment given by the Head of Clinical Services pertaining to hospital activity.

Requirements

• Interested candidates should possess a Bachelor's Degree in relevant fields with a minimum of 2 years work experience.

Application Closing Date
17th February, 2023.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online