Pharmacist jobs in South Africa

Function Pharmacy Facility Position Locum Pharmacist Introduction

A vacancy exists for a temporary / locum Pharmacistwithin Life Knysna Private Hospital, reporting to the Pharmacy Manager. The successful candidate will be expected to work flexiblyto support the provision of high- qualitypharmaceutical services andcontribute to the safe and efficient supply of medicines and meet thefinancial objectives, legislative compliance and people management requirements of the Company.

• Report 100% of medication-related adverse events and develop and implement remedial actions as appropriate.
• Report 100% of pharmacy alerts and develop and implement remedial action and complete a trends analysis quarterly.
• Drive 100% reporting of adverse drug reactions
• Comply with all legal, professional, and procedural requirements during the dispensing process.

• Assist in driving a reduction in inappropriate antimicrobial utilization
• Ensure pharmaceutical care is provided and continuity of clinical pharmacy services where appropriate.

• Participate in the implementation and compliance to LHC Quality management systems.
• Ensure compliance with SAPC, DOH and LHC legal and professional standards.
• Participate in achieving required customer service levels in theatre and wards.
• Implement customer satisfaction and pharmacy quality initiatives.

• Participate in achieving hospital budgeted financial measures relating to pharmacy.
• Assist with the improvement of operational efficiencies impacting cost of sales.

• Participate in the active management of cost of sales of pharmaceuticals in line with revenue and budget.
• Build effective working relationships with doctors.

• Participate in achieving stock targets.
• Achieve optimal system utilisation.

• Participate in Pharmacist Intern and Pharmacist Assistant programmes as appropriate.
• Provide direction and inspire positive work behavior in the team

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• Relevant clinical knowledge and experience to the critical outputs
• Current registration with South African Pharmacy Council
• Understanding of pharmacy and related healthcare industry, legislation, regulation and challenges
• Knowledge of pharmaceutical legislation
• Pharmaceutical product knowledge
• Computer proficiency (MS office)

• Problem-solving, analysis and judgement
• Attention to detail
• Resilience
• Motivating and developing people
• Engaging diversity
• Verbal & written communication skills
• Building relationships
• Customer responsiveness
• Organisational awareness
• Excellence orientation
• Ethical behaviour
• Action orientation