Award-Winning Senior Medication Expertise Required

Award-Winning Senior Medication Expertise Required for Ambitious Healthcare Professionals

As a pioneering and forward-thinking Senior Pharmacist, you will play a pivotal role in driving excellence within our esteemed institution.

With unwavering dedication, passion, and commitment to providing exceptional patient care, you will be an integral member of our collaborative team.

This challenging and rewarding position demands a highly skilled and experienced professional who possesses strong leadership qualities, a deep understanding of medication management, and excellent communication skills.

You will be responsible for ensuring the safe and effective use of medicines throughout the hospital, mentoring junior staff members, and participating in ongoing education and research activities.

• Maintain awareness of patient primacy in all hospital activities
• Demonstrate behavior consistent with the hospital's values
• Participate in the pharmaceutical service as part of a punctual, dedicated, and professional team
• Create, promote, and maintain open communications and healthy working relationships
• Ensure equity, accountability, and quality in daily work
• Participate in departmental mentor/mentee and tutor/tutee programs
• Review medications for in- or out-patient prescribed treatment patients
• Check every prescription order for accuracy and suitability and ensure the safe and efficacious dispensing of each prescription
• Educate and counsel patients appropriately about their medications and manage side effects according to procedure
• Close interaction with medical and nursing colleagues to advise on the safe and effective use of medicines and provide Medicines Information where required
• Participate in multi- and inter-disciplinary teams regarding the safe and effective use of pharmaceutical agents where appropriate
• Provision of receipt of goods, storage, supply, dispensing, record keeping as per local policy and as per all legislative requirements
• Ward-based clinical services, including the provision of advice to medical and nursing staff where applicable and as per job requirement
• Ensure timely collation and input of all data concerning drug usage in the hospital in line with departmental policy
• Perform all duties and responsibilities in line with all Pharmacy Department procedures and protocols as well as hospital-wide procedures
• Participate in continuing education and research activities consistent with the post
• Ensure cost-effective use of medicines and show initiative in appraising their designated line manager of any changes in practice likely to lead to significant changes in expenditure or purchasing patterns
• Create, in consultation with medical and nursing staff and their designated line manager, protocols and guidelines designed to deliver optimal and economical patient care
• Ensure best practice and compliance with agreed clinical guidelines
• Ensure consistent adherence to all legal requirements and obligations with particular reference to the Pharmacy Act 2007 and all regulations pertaining thereto
• Ensure that the medication use process is measured, analyzed, and optimized by undertaking regular clinical audit
• Ensure that all departmental and hospital-wide Health and Safety protocols and procedures are adhered to and all areas of non-compliance are promptly addressed
• Perform such other duties appropriate to the post, including on-call and participation in extended opening rosters, including weekend opening as may from time to time be assigned by the Head of Pharmacy Services
• Provide training and advice on Pharmacy Department services to ward, nursing, medical, and pharmacy staff
• Participate in the induction of new Pharmacy staff as required
• Act as a pharmacy mentor for Pharmaceutical Technicians, Interns, and Basic Grade Pharmacists as required

• Be a registered pharmacist with the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (PSI) or be entitled to be so registered
• Have at least three years satisfactory post-registration hospital experience
• Possess the requisite knowledge and ability (including a high standard of suitability and management ability) for the proper discharge of the duties of the office