Hospital Pharmacist

CIPHER Oncology Pvt. Ltd.; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

CIPHER Oncology Pvt. Ltd. in Hyderabad is seeking a pharmacist to ensure safe medication handling in the clinic, maintain stock, and coordinate with distribution networks to meet patient needs.

The role requires expertise in oncology medications, dose calculations, discharge counselling, and clear communication in English, Hindi and Telugu.

You will work with pharmacy and nursing teams, adhere to NABH norms, and use software and Excel to track inventory and orders.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Patient, energetic, and able to multitask.
• Fluent in English, Hindi and Telugu for patient and team communication.
• Knowledge of oncology medications and dosing calculations.

Responsibilities

• Maintain clinic guidelines and a safe, clean work environment.
• Coordinate quickly with centres to arrange medications and instruments.
• Order and procure items across distributors politely and efficiently.
• Keep medications in alphabetical, category, generic, and brand order.
• Track inventory in software and Excel and ensure stock levels.
• Review orders for appropriateness across patients of all ages.
• Provide drug information and patient education as required.
• Explain discharge medications and dose calculations to patients.
• Collaborate with doctors and nursing staff to fulfill day-to-day orders.

Skills

Communication skills

Patience

Energy

Fluent in English

Fluent in Hindi

Fluent in Telugu

Job description

• Documents activities consistent with clinic Guidelines and maintains a safe and clean working environment
• Understands medications, surgical instruments, consumables as well as emergency medications and should arrange them quickly to respective centres within in a short time.
• Understands the pharmacopeia and also should be enthusiastic in ordering the items, procurement, and interacting with the distributor network in a polite manner.
• Maintains the medications in alphabetical order, by category, by generic name wise and by brand.
• Coordinate with the drug distributor to ensure ordering of complex medications as needed by the patients in a short while.
• Maintains the pharmacy accordingly with the basic stock and should be able to tract inventory in the provided software also should be able to track data in excel.
• Evaluates the appropriateness of medication orders for patients of all ages, diseases, and conditions. Responds to inappropriate orders appropriately.
• Provides therapeutic drug monitoring education, provides drug information to patients and provides patient education as identified and as requested.
• Should have knowledge in Oncology medications, drug dose calculations and explaining discharge medications in a systematic manner.
• Should have knowledge in understanding schedule wise drugs, differentiating the medications as per category like High-Risk Medications, Emergency Medications, Look A Like and Sound A Like.
• To connect with pharmacy and nursing team in providing the indent on day-to-day orders.
• Should understand the return policy to send to distributors as well as near expiry medications as per NABH norms.
• Participates in clinical and interdisciplinary patient care team and respond to the doctors, co-employees in a polite and understandable manner.
• Skills Required:
• Good communication skills, patience and energy along with the ability to converse fluently in English, Hindi and Telugu are a must.
• Should possess the ability to persuade through good communication skills.
• Ability to speak with doctors directly in case anything required in an emergency basis and understand their needs from the pharmacy