Incharge-Pharmacy

• Pharmacy Operations: Manage the day-to-day operations of the hospital pharmacy, ensuring the timely and uninterrupted availability of medicines and medical supplies.
• NABH Compliance: Ensure pharmacy services comply with applicable NABH standards, hospital policies, and relevant statutory and regulatory requirements.
• Drug Procurement: Coordinate with approved vendors for the procurement of medicines, surgical consumables, and other pharmaceutical supplies.
• Inventory Management: Maintain optimum stock levels and monitor minimum, maximum, and reorder levels to prevent stock-outs and overstocking.
• Expiry Management: Conduct regular expiry checks, maintain near-expiry registers, and ensure expired medicines are segregated and disposed of as per hospital policy.
• Storage Conditions: Ensure medicines are stored under appropriate temperature, humidity, light, and other specified conditions, with records maintained.
• Cold Chain Management: Monitor and document refrigerator temperatures for temperature-sensitive medicines, vaccines, and other pharmaceutical products, wherever applicable.
• High-Alert and LASA Medicines: Ensure proper identification, segregation, labelling, storage, and handling of high-alert medications and Look-Alike/Sound-Alike (LASA) medicines.
• Controlled Drugs Management: Maintain statutory records, secure storage, and proper dispensing of narcotic, psychotropic, and other regulated medicines, as applicable.
• Prescription Verification: Ensure prescriptions are reviewed for completeness, legibility, dosage, route, frequency, allergies, and potential medication-related concerns before dispensing.
• Safe Dispensing: Ensure medicines are dispensed accurately to the correct patient, with appropriate labelling, instructions, and counselling.
• Medication Error Reporting: Identify, document, report, and analyse medication errors, near misses, and adverse drug reactions, and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Antimicrobial Stewardship: Coordinate with clinicians and the infection control team to support rational antibiotic use and compliance with the hospital's antimicrobial stewardship programme.
• Emergency Drug Availability: Ensure emergency medicines, crash-cart drugs, antidotes, and other critical medications are available, checked regularly, and replenished promptly.
• Formulary Management: Maintain the hospital drug formulary and coordinate with the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee regarding medicine additions, restrictions, and substitutions.
• Documentation and Records: Maintain purchase invoices, stock registers, batch details, dispensing records, temperature logs, recall records, and other documents required for NABH compliance.
• Drug Recall Management: Implement procedures for identifying, quarantining, tracing, and removing recalled or defective medicines, including communication with relevant departments.
• Staff Management and Training: Supervise pharmacy staff, prepare duty rosters, monitor performance, and conduct training on medication safety, dispensing practices, and NABH requirements.
• Internal Audits and Quality Improvement: Conduct periodic pharmacy audits, monitor key performance indicators, identify non-conformities, and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Interdepartmental Coordination and Reporting: Coordinate with Nursing, Medical, Purchase, Finance, Quality, and Infection Control departments; submit pharmacy reports and stock-related updates to hospital management.

Pay

Up to ₹50,000.00 per hour

Expected hours

48.0 per week

Benefits

Paid sick time

Paid time off

Provident Fund

Application Question(s)

Are you an immediate joiner?

Work Location

In person