Hospital Senior Pharmacist

LIFE Healthcare Group; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

A vacancy exists for a Hospital Senior Pharmacist at Life Flora Hospital. The successful candidate will manage pharmacy services, ensuring quality, compliance, and financial objectives are met. Responsibilities include medication safety management, quality systems compliance, and effective people management. Candidates must hold relevant qualifications and registration with the South African Pharmacy Council.

Qualifications

• Current registration with South African Pharmacy Council required.
• Relevant clinical knowledge and experience necessary.
• Well experienced candidates will get preference.

Responsibilities

• Manage and coordinate pharmacy services within the hospital.
• Ensure compliance with legal and professional standards.
• Recruit, retain, and develop pharmacy staff.

Skills

Problem-solving

Attention to detail

Verbal & written communication skills

Customer responsiveness

Education

Pharm / Dip.Pharm / B.Sc Pharm

Tools

MS Office

Job description

A vacancy exists for a Hospital Senior Pharmacist based at Life Flora Hospital, reporting to Phia Swartz, Pharmacy Manager. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing and co- ordinating the Pharmacy services within the hospital environment by ensuring that the quality pharmaceutical services, financial objectives, legislative compliance and people management requirements are achieved to the required standards.

Function Pharmacy Facility Life Flora Hospital Position Hospital Senior Pharmacist Introduction

A vacancy exists for a Hospital Senior Pharmacist based at Life Flora Hospital, reporting to Phia Swartz, Pharmacy Manager. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing and co- ordinating the Pharmacy services within the hospital environment by ensuring that the quality pharmaceutical services, financial objectives, legislative compliance and people management requirements are achieved to the required standards.

Critical Outputs

Effective medication safety management

• Report 100% of medication incidents and develop and implement remedial actions as appropriate.
• Complete trends analysis with relevant actions quarterly together with Pharmacy Manager.
• Report 100% of pharmacy alerts and develop and implement remedial action and complete a trends analysis quarterly.

Effective quality management systems

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

Effective financial management

• Participate in achieving hospital budgeted financial measures relating to pharmacy.
• Focus on the VBC project

Effective product management

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

Effective asset management

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

Effective people management

• Recruit, retain, motivate and develop staff according to Company people policies and practices.
• Drive Pharmacist Intern and Pharmacist Assistant programmes as appropriate.
• Provide direction and inspire positive work behaviour in team.

Requirements

• Pharm / Dip.Pharm / B.Sc Pharm
• 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)
• Well experienced candidates will get preference

Competencies

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

Email [e-mail] Closing date Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Internal applicants - Before making an application, you are requested to discuss your application with your line manager.External candidates will also be considered.

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Life Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Thank you for your interest in this opportunity. Kindly note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Applicants who have not been contacted within two weeks of the closing date of this advert, should consider their application as unsuccessful.