Job Description

• Check prescriptions for errors, ensuring they’re appropriate and safe for the individual patient
• Provide advice on the dosage of medicines and the most appropriate form of medication, which could be by tablet, injection, ointment or inhaler
• Participate in ward rounds to take patient drug histories
• Liaise with other medical staff on problems patients may experience when taking their medicines
• Make sure medicines are stored appropriately and securely
• Supervise the work of the Technicians
• Answer questions about medicines from within the hospital, other hospitals and the general public
• Keep up to date with, and contribute to, research and development
• Write guidelines for drug use within the hospital and implement hospital regulations
• Monitor drugs stock level and control drugs inventory
• Prepare and quality-check sterile medications, for example, intravenous medications.
• Head the administrative sector of the pharmacy etc.