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TASHINGA CHITIYO

Perth,Australia

Summary

I am a dedicated and passionate clinical pharmacist with experience delivering high-quality, evidence-based, and patient-centered care across hospital and community pharmacy settings. I possess strong communication and interpersonal skills, which enable me to consistently build patient rapport and effectively collaborate with various healthcare professionals, patients, and caregivers to optimise the health outcomes of my patients.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

Clinical Pharmacist

Armadale Health Service
01.2025 - Current
  • Provided high-level clinical pharmacy services to a diverse patient cohort, ensuring safe, evidence-based, and patient-centred medication management.
  • Worked collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams across a broad range of clinical settings, including general medicine, surgery, paediatrics, rehabilitation, pre-admission clinic, maternity, neonatology, mental health, and dispensary services.
  • Maintained strict adherence to relevant legislative, policy, and procedural standards, including the PBS (Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme), SAS (Special Access Scheme), and the State Medicines Formulary.
  • Obtained accurate medication histories, and reconciled them with inpatient medication charts to identify medication discrepancies, omissions, duplication, and inappropriate and unsafe medication prescribing.
  • Communicated with medical teams to rectify medication issues to ensure safe and optimal medical care for all patients.
  • Clinically reviewed patients, assessed pathological and imaging results, and made both pharmacological and non-pharmacological suggestions to optimise patient management.
  • Participated in the provision of pre-admission clinic services for surgical and procedural patients, formulating pre-operative medication management plans in collaboration with anesthetists, nurses, specialists, and allied health professionals to ensure safe and guidelines-supported perioperative care.
  • Promoted and provided education on therapeutic drug monitoring requirements and principles, especially for high-risk medicines.
  • Participated in multidisciplinary collaboration by attending team meetings and contributed to patient-centered discussions and liaising with medical, nursing, and allied health professionals to address patient-specific requirements.
  • Encouraged the safe and appropriate prescribing of antibiotics by educating medical practitioners on tools and guidelines such as the Therapeutic Guidelines and the Antimicrobial Stewardship Prescribing (AMPs) tool.
  • Ensured safe provision of medication information to patients by providing verbal counselling and written information about the appropriate use and management of their medications.
  • Discharge reconciliation and planning, including confirming the safety and appropriateness of discharge medications, communicating medication changes to patients and caregivers, and coordinating with community pharmacies and nursing homes to enable safe transitions of care.
  • Promptly responded to medication-related questions and queries from nurses, doctors, allied health professionals, and patients.
  • Acted as the lead pharmacist in the dispensary, overseeing the clinical screening, prioritisation, dispensing, and checking of incoming inpatient medication charts to ensure timely and accurate supply of medications to wards.
  • Simultaneously managed urgent outpatient medication requests, ensuring prompt dispensing and supply to patients.
  • Maintained a strong focus on compliance, ensuring all medication supply processes adhered to relevant legislation and WA health policies and procedures.
  • Prioritised workload efficiently to balance competing demands and support continuity of patient care across both inpatient and outpatient settings.
  • Effectively managed drug procurement and supply in accordance with hospital protocols, ensuring timely availability of essential medications.
  • Applied working knowledge of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) and Special Access Scheme (SAS) to facilitate compliant dispensing and patient access to restricted or subsidised medications.

Intern Clinical Pharmacist

Bunbury Regional Hospital
01.2024 - Current
  • Gained comprehensive clinical exposure under the guidance of knowledgeable pharmacists across diverse practice settings, including dispensary, general medicine, surgery, psychiatry, intensive care, paediatrics, hospice, subacute care, rehabilitation, and rural district sites.
  • Undertook numerous opportunities to provide education on medicines and multiple clinical topics to nurses, pharmacy colleagues, and fellow interns.
  • Conducted medication history interviews and performed reconciliation to identify and resolve prescribing discrepancies.
  • Collaborated with medical teams to address medication issues and ensure safe, effective patient care.
  • Participated in multidisciplinary meetings to support patient-centred care planning.
  • Provided verbal and written medication counselling to support safe use and adherence.
  • Contributed to discharge planning by verifying discharge medications and communicating changes to patients and care providers.

Dispensary and Pharmacy Technician

Optimal Pharmacy Plus Armadale Central
10.2020 - 12.2023
  • Worked collaboratively within a team in a community pharmacy setting, providing a comprehensive range of professional pharmacy services to improve patient care and support.
  • Dispensing medication using MINFOS software.
  • Receiving and assessing prescriptions for compliance with legality requirements and clinical appropriateness.
  • Counselling patients on the quality use of prescription, over the counter and complementary medicines.
  • Money handling, operating P.O.S systems and EFTPOS.
  • Preparing dose administration aids.
  • Ordering and receiving stock.
  • Training new pharmacy staff in procedures and customer service standards.

Fourth Year Placement Student

Armadale Health Service
04.2023 - 05.2023
  • A five-week university placement in which I was exposed to various areas of the hospital pharmacy environment including stores and imprest, dispensary, and clinical wards.
  • Dispensing inpatient and outpatient prescriptions using iPharmacy software.
  • Analysing and interpreting patient pathology results.
  • Counting, processing, picking and restocking imprest orders.
  • Counting, receiving, and restocking dispensary store orders.
  • Completing supervised medication reconciliation interviews.

Education

Bachelor of Pharmacy (Honours) -

Curtin University
Perth, WA
11.2024

Intern Training Program - undefined

Pharmaceutical Society of Australia
01.2024

Skills

  • Organisation and time management
  • Extemporaneous compounding
  • Commitment to personal and professional
  • Medication reconciliation
  • Clinical development review
  • Developed clinical judgement
  • Medication history taking
  • Multidisciplinary collaboration
  • Advanced medication knowledge
  • Dispensing medications using iPharmacy
  • Advocating for patient health
  • MINFOS
  • FRED
  • Z dispensing software
  • Stock distribution
  • Procurement
  • Discharge reconciliation
  • Patient education
  • Interpersonal skills
  • Verbal communication skills
  • Written communication skills

Professional Qualifications And Certificates

  • Working with Children Check
  • Infection Control Training
  • First Aid Certificate
  • Dealing with Difficult and Challenging Behaviours Training
  • Mental Health First Aid Certificate
  • Cultural Orientation Training (WACRH)
  • Worksafe SmartMove Certificate
  • National Police Clearance
  • Class C-A Driver’s Licence
  • PSA Immunisation Training
  • PSA Intern Training Program
  • NPS Medication Safety and Medication Standards Training

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Driving License: Class C-A Driver’s Licence

Timeline

Clinical Pharmacist

Armadale Health Service
01.2025 - Current

Intern Clinical Pharmacist

Bunbury Regional Hospital
01.2024 - Current

Fourth Year Placement Student

Armadale Health Service
04.2023 - 05.2023

Dispensary and Pharmacy Technician

Optimal Pharmacy Plus Armadale Central
10.2020 - 12.2023

Intern Training Program - undefined

Pharmaceutical Society of Australia

Bachelor of Pharmacy (Honours) -

Curtin University

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