Pharmacist

About the role

We are seeking a qualified Pharmacist to join our pharmacy services team in Novena. The role focuses on ensuring medication safety, supporting clinical care, and maintaining regulatory compliance across all pharmacy operations.

Key responsibilities

• Provide operational support and leadership within pharmacy services to ensure medication safety, efficiency, and regulatory compliance.
• Deliver specialized pharmacotherapy counselling, emphasizing chronic disease management and patient quality of life.
• Coordinate daily workflow to guarantee timely, accurate, and safe medication supply.
• Review and validate prescriptions for legality, completeness, accuracy, and clinical appropriateness.
• Resolve medication‑related issues with prescribers and escalate when necessary.
• Ensure accurate dispensing, labelling, repackaging, and compounding in line with regulatory requirements.
• Perform medication reconciliation across transitions of care and document discrepancies.
• Identify, prevent, and resolve medication‑related problems through active therapy optimisation.
• Provide medication counselling and education to patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals.
• Support discharge processes, adherence programmes, and post‑discharge issue resolution.
• Assist in inventory management, stock control, expiry monitoring, and discrepancy investigation.
• Support procurement activities, vendor coordination, purchasing, and cost management.
• Utilise clinical systems for documentation, reporting, and troubleshooting.
• Provide training, mentorship, and competency development for staff and trainees.
• Participate in quality improvement, audits, and research initiatives.
• Assist in managing medication incidents, supply issues, and service gaps.
• Ensure compliance with legal, professional, and organisational standards at all times.

Required profile

• Degree in Pharmacy.
• Registered with the Singapore Pharmacist Board and holding a valid patient‑care practising licence.
• Minimum 2 years of relevant experience, preferably in hospital, clinical, or retail pharmacy settings.
• Strong clinical knowledge of pharmacotherapy and a commitment to lifelong learning.
• Excellent organisational, analytical, and decision‑making abilities.
• Effective communication, interpersonal, problem‑solving, and conflict‑resolution skills.
• Ability to supervise, guide, and mentor junior staff and trainees.

Required skills

• Medication reconciliation
• Pharmacy dispensing and compounding