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Role details
- Location: Chennai, with regular visits to partner sites in the city and occasional travel to Mumbai
- Type: Full-time and on site, with some early mornings and weekend cover on a rota
- Reports to: Chief Medical Officer
About Prvnt
Prvnt is a concierge medicine practice in Chennai that looks after a small number of families, a year at a time. Each member has a physician of their own and a senior doctor above that physician, with a panel of specialists behind both.
The year starts with deep diagnostics and a written plan signed by the panel. Results are measured again at four, eight and twelve months.
Prvnt also runs the same medicine inside partner organisations, including a senior-living community and a hospital joint venture. A UAE practice is in preparation.
The role
The pharmacist will build Prvnt's pharmacy from the start and answer for every medicine a member receives. That covers IV therapy, peptide medicines, hormones, prescription drugs and supplements, given at the clinic, at partner sites and in members' homes.
Accountability runs from purchase to administration: whether a product may legally be used, where it came from, and how it was stored and prepared. It extends to whether the dose suits the person receiving it, and whether the records would hold up in an unannounced inspection.
The pharmacist will be the registered pharmacist in charge on Prvnt's drug licences. As the partner network grows, the role recruits and trains a pharmacist for each site.
What the work involves
The work falls into the areas below, with IV therapy, peptide medicines and medication review taking the largest share.
IV therapy
- Owns the IV formulary, which holds only injectables approved in India and bought through licensed distributors.
- Keeps cosmetic and “nutraceutical” injections off the formulary, and withdraws a product the day its regulatory status changes.
- Verifies every IV order before preparation, including dose, compatibility, osmolarity and rate for a peripheral line.
- Confirms the screening each protocol requires before an infusion, such as G6PD status and kidney function before high-dose vitamin C.
- Runs aseptic preparation in a laminar-flow area at the clinic, and writes the standard nurses follow at partner sites and in members' homes.
- Keeps anaphylaxis and emergency kits complete and in date wherever an infusion runs, and trains nurses in their use.
Peptide medicines
- Dispenses the peptide medicines approved in India that the panel prescribes, such as GLP-1 and dual-agonist therapies and teriparatide.
- Manages their storage, pen and vial technique and reconstitution, and agrees titration and side-effect monitoring with the prescribing doctor.
- Teaches members to self-inject when the care team arranges it.
- Qualifies the licensed compounding pharmacies used by the UAE practice, confirming that each compounded peptide may be prescribed in that market.
- Handles peptides not approved in India only as investigational products in an approved Prvnt study, and never holds them as stock.
Prescription medicines, hormones and supplements
- Dispenses prescription medicines and hormone therapy, including menopause hormone therapy, testosterone and thyroid treatment, with the monitoring each one needs.
- Builds the supplement formulary from FSSAI-licensed manufacturers, with a certificate of analysis for every batch and an evidence grade on Prvnt's A-to-D scale.
- Commissions independent contaminant testing of supplements where the risk justifies it.
- Prepares each member's medicine and supplement packs, labelled by day and time of dose and adjusted for travel across time zones.
Medication review and pharmacogenomics
- Reviews every new member's medicines and supplements at onboarding and after any change, starting with older members on several medicines.
- Checks for interactions, duplication, doses that need adjusting for kidney or liver function, and anything that ought to stop.
- Interprets pharmacogenomic results such as CYP2C19, CYP2D6 and SLCO1B1 against CPIC guidelines, and writes the prescribing advice into the member's record.
Licences, records and inspections
- Serves as the registered pharmacist in charge on Prvnt's drug licences and keeps every licensed premises ready for inspection.
- Keeps prescription records and scheduled-drug registers in the Clinical OS, and writes the pharmacy SOPs to NABH medication-management standards.
- Disposes of expired and pharmaceutical waste under the Bio-Medical Waste Management Rules, 2016.
Supply and cold chain
- Qualifies every supplier before the first order, checking its drug licence, the manufacturer's authorisation and the batch documentation.
- Runs the cold chain from delivery to administration, with alarmed refrigerators, validated carriers for home visits and an investigation for every excursion.
- Manages stock across the clinic, partner sites and home-visit kits on a first-expiry, first-out basis.
- Releases an order only after it has been cleared in the Clinical OS.
Safety
- Reports adverse drug reactions to the Pharmacovigilance Programme of India and leads internal reviews of medication incidents with the medical team.
- Investigates every dispensing or preparation error and near miss, and changes the process that allowed it.
Partner sites and research
- Sets the formulary, SOPs and training at each partner site Prvnt runs, and audits each site every quarter.
- Recruits and supervises site pharmacists as new sites open.
- Acts as investigational-product pharmacist for Prvnt's research institute, under Good Clinical Practice, the New Drugs and Clinical Trials Rules, 2019 and ICMR guidelines.
Where the role sits
The pharmacist works behind the member's two doctors: their own physician, called the Health Partner, and the Lead Doctor above them. Pharmacy advice normally reaches the member through those two.
The pharmacist meets members directly when the care team arranges it, for example to teach self-injection or to review the medicines kept at home. Every task runs through Prvnt's Clinical OS with an owner and a deadline.
Requirements
- B.Pharm, M.Pharm (Pharmacy Practice or Clinical Pharmacy) or Pharm.D, registered with the Tamil Nadu Pharmacy Council or transferring before joining.
- At least five years as a pharmacist, including three or more in hospital clinical pharmacy.
- Hands-on aseptic preparation of IV admixtures, for example in an admixture unit, an ICU or an oncology pharmacy.
- Experience running a licensed pharmacy, including drug-licence conditions, scheduled-drug registers and inspections.
- Working knowledge of cold-chain management and NABH medication-management standards.
- Fluent English.
Preferred
- A Pharm.D with a clinical internship or residency.
- Experience with GLP-1 therapy, hormone therapy or other metabolic and endocrine prescribing.
- Training in pharmacogenomics, or experience applying CPIC guidelines.
- Clinical-trial pharmacy experience under Good Clinical Practice.
- Hindi.
- Eligibility for a Dubai Health Authority pharmacist licence, for the UAE practice.
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