
Senior pharmacist📣 Job Ad
in Fakeeh Care Group
about 1 hour ago
| Contract Type | Full-time | |
| Workplace type | On-site | |
| Location | Makkah |
About the Role
Fakeeh Care Group is seeking a Senior Pharmacist to join their team in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. This full-time position offers an opportunity to contribute to the provision of professional, safe, and timely pharmaceutical services within a leading healthcare organization. The Senior Pharmacist will play a key role in supervising pharmacy staff, ensuring adherence to organizational policies, and maintaining high standards of patient care. This role also focuses on medication safety, inventory management, and the effective use of pharmacy automation systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Supervise and direct pharmacy staff to ensure professional, safe, and timely pharmaceutical services.
- Develop, coordinate, implement, and ensure compliance with all Fakeeh Care and pharmacy services policies and procedures.
- Ensure staff compliance with accreditation standards.
- Schedule staff effectively to ensure smooth workflow, especially during peak hours.
- Evaluate, develop, and implement best practice recommendations related to medication safety.
- Ensure medication verification and dispensing in the outpatient pharmacy meet established timeframes.
- Conduct periodic performance evaluations of inpatient pharmacy staff and provide constructive feedback.
- Report nearly expired medicines (within 6 months) to the medical stockroom, ensure returns, and subtract from inventory.
- Troubleshoot variations and problems that may arise in daily work.
- Review outpatient pharmacy indicators monthly and address variations by developing performance improvement projects.
- Ensure inventory of narcotic and controlled drugs is conducted and re-checked every shift.
- Ensure pharmacists conduct and re-check medicine inventory.
- Provide training and detailed orientation for newly hired staff.
- Promote, encourage, and assist pharmacy personnel in their self-development.
- Engage in self-development through continuous education programs related to medication management, high-risk medications, and medication errors.
- Design quality assurance and process improvement studies for the Automated Storage and Retrieval Device and related systems in the outpatient pharmacy.
- Act as a Subject Matter Expert for all implemented pharmacy automation systems.
- Coordinate automation maintenance, troubleshooting, and downtime.
- Assure appropriate testing of all integrated applications.
- Provide support to pharmacy staff and stakeholders to increase adoption, improve, and enhance pharmacy automation solutions for patient care, education, and research.
- Oversee maintenance of all pharmacy automation systems, ensuring minimal impact on pharmacy workflow.
- Educate patients and their families about health conditions, treatments, and preventative measures, where applicable.
- Verify every medication order for doses, duration, drug-to-drug interactions, and clinical indication when assigned to the verification desk.
- Perform other duties as assigned within the scope of responsibility and job requirements.
Qualifications and Requirements
- A Bachelor's Degree of Pharmacy or higher.
- A minimum of 4 years of experience in a hospital pharmacy setting, including at least two years in an outpatient hospital pharmacy.
- Good command of oral and written English.
- A valid license to practice as a pharmacist, as per the regional health regulatory authority (*, SCFHS / DHA).
Required Skills
- Medication Safety
- Pharmacy Automation
- Performance Improvement
- Inventory Management
- Staff Supervision
- Training and Development
- Problem-Solving
- Communication
- Understanding of clinical, technical, and business workflows to achieve planned outcomes.
Work Location and Type
This is a full-time position based in Makkah, Makkah Province, Saudi Arabia.
Requirements
- Requires 2-5 Years experience
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