Job opening for Hospital Pharmacist

Responsibilities may also include:

Providing clinical expertise and being an educational resource for colleagues in relation to medicines e.g. doses, side-effects, alternatives etc. whilst helping to address the public health and social needs of individual patients

Liaising with and proactively developing relationships with a multidisciplinary team (including colleagues, NHS professionals and private organisations) and acting as the main point of contact for medicines

Participate in ward rounds to administer patient drug histories and liaise with patient families, community pharmacists and GPs

Manage the process of medicines reconciliation on admittance or following discharge from hospital and liaise with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients have the medicines that they need

Managing, auditing and reviewing prescription and repeat prescription policies to improve the quality, safety and cost-effectiveness of prescribing

Reduce wasteful polypharmacy and seek to reduce inappropriate and wasteful prescribing of medicines

Proactively seek to reduce medicine-related hospital admissions and readmissions by identifying medicine-related issues and supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines.

Handling patients and health care professionals’ prescription queries and providing remote support where needed

Research and identify patients that require medication reviews including patient’s clinical condition, blood monitoring and care arrangements

Perform regular patient reviews to identify and address any medicines-related issues and ensure patients get the best outcome from medicines prescribed

Make appropriate recommendations to GPs and other healthcare professionals for patients’ ongoing treatment and for the management of referrals

Ensuring repeat reauthorisation processes are adhered to for high-risk medicines

Apollo Pharmacy is a part of Apollo Hospitals - Asia's largest healthcare group. It is India's first and largest branded pharmacy network, with over 6000 plus outlets in key Locations. Accredited with - International Quality Certification, Apollo Pharmacy offers genuine medicines round-the-clock, through their 24-hour Pharmacies. Apollo Pharmacy also provides Customer Care any time of the day. Quality is the cornerstone of our existence. We have gained experience in pharmacy operations management over the last 2 decades and are committed to delivering best service in the industry. Apollo Pharmacy is well stocked with medicines OTC and FMCG products, manned by competent staff with computerized system. Apollo pharmacy has more than 5000 products in various categories like Vitamins and supplements, Baby care, Personal care, Health foods and OTC. In addition to this we have more than 400 Apollo Brand Products in the following categories like vitamins and supplements, health food, Oral care, skin care, personal care, baby care, OTC etc.