Pharmacist

About the role

Royal Hospital Sharjah is looking for a Pharmacist to review outpatient prescriptions and support patient care. The role covers checking prescriptions for accuracy and safety, monitoring patient profiles, providing medication information to clinicians and patients, and covering emergency department needs 24 hours a day.

Key responsibilities

• Review outpatient prescriptions issued by physicians or other authorized prescribers for accuracy, appropriateness and safety, and determine the required formulas and ingredients.
• Monitor postings on patient profiles so that drug allergies, interactions, duplicate therapy, rational drug therapy and incompatibilities are identified.
• Provide information to physicians, nurses, patients and other healthcare professionals on medication use, interactions, side effects, dosage and storage.
• Assist in teaching programmes (departmental, medical, nursing, community).
• Maintain equipment and supplies in the work areas and monitor items nearing or past expiry for disposal in line with policy.
• Answer questions about medicines from within the hospital, other hospitals and the public; follow insurance company policies and MOH rules and regulations.
• Complete third-party insurance forms and other paperwork, and assist the Chief of Pharmaceutical Services on special assignments.
• Cover emergency department needs for urgent medicines 24 hours a day.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy or equivalent.
• Two years' experience as a pharmacist or relevant clinical experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience; experience not required for graduates inside the UAE.
• Valid SHA license.
• Excellent communication skills with good command of written and spoken English; knowledge of Arabic preferred.
• Planning, organizational and customer-service skills, working well independently and in a team.

Required skills

• Pharmacy knowledge and accurate application of mathematical operations for dosage calculations, formulation and data analysis.
• Ability to interpret technical instructions and handle several abstract variables.
• Excellent computer skills.