• Leads assigned patient service lines, clinical areas, and therapeutic programs

  • Facilitates pharmaceutical care services, direct patient care programs, medication utilization systems within assigned services and care areas to assure drug utilization activities are aligned with patient care needs, evidence-based best practices, and regulatory standards

  • Designs and implements stewardship activities and restriction/surveillance programs

  • Tracks and evaluates assigned pharmacy programs for operational, quality, and financial efficiency and routinely benchmarks against local and national best practices

  • Actively identifies practice related issues which require evaluation and facilitate clinical research projects, quality improvement initiatives, or healthcare provider education as needed to advance practice

  • Develops and oversees policies and procedures for drug purchasing, drug usage, drug distribution, and drug control

  • Assures pharmacy is an integral part of the health-care delivery system and facilitates enhancement and expansion of pharmacy services/programs

• Delivers direct patient care and clinical practice, including ambulatory-care and service-based programs

  • Maintains proficiency in ambulatory-care pharmacy services and clinical pharmacy programs

  • Works as an active member of multidisciplinary team and collaborates with healthcare providers within patient care areas to provide patient-centered care

  • o Identifies high-risk patients and implements interventions to improve quality and safety

  • Makes appropriate evidence-based, patient-centered medication recommendations

  • Participates in the management of medical emergencies

  • Provides discharge medication review, reconciliation, and counseling as appropriate

• Provides pharmaceutical services throughout medical center

  • Maintains proficiency in hospital computer systems and medication ordering systems

  • Provides accurate, safe, timely, and appropriate medication therapy based on patient age and needs

  • Completes critical patient monitoring and reviews patient profile/chart to identify, prevent, or mitigate drug-related problems, improper drug or dose selection, sub therapeutic dosage, over dosage, adverse drug reactions, drug interactions, failure to receive drugs, untreated indications, medication use without an indication, and treatment failures

  • Communicates effectively and appropriately with healthcare providers and caregivers (physicians, nurses, etc.) and assures continuity of pharmaceutical care between shifts and among staff

  • Actively participates in stewardship activities and restricted medication programs

• Participates in pharmacy operations and medication dispensing

  • o Maintains proficiency in and actively engages in operational programs, dispensing pharmacies, specialty pharmacy areas as appropriate

  • Facilitates specialty medication procurement, ordering, and dispensing procedures including but not limited to controlled substances, etc. as appropriate

  • Oversees pharmacy operations and technician practice/activities

• Facilitates experiential education and practice advancement

  • Maintains proficiency and actively emulates education/mentorship skills

  • Develops staff training experiences/competencies and creates new relationships for teaching and training opportunities

  • Identifies, designs, and implements improvements in the medication-use system to advance patient safety, maximize therapeutic outcomes, or control costs

• Knowledge of contemporary hospital/clinical practice and service.

• Significant knowledge and expertise in advanced pharmacy practice, specialty medication therapy management, and specialty evidence-based medicine in area appropriate for clinical assignments.

• Able to communicate effectively with patients

• Detail oriented

• Leadership experience preferred

Education

• Graduate of an ACPE accredited College of Pharmacy.

• Doctor of Pharmacy or other advanced degree, preferred.

Experience

• Completion of ASHP accredited PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency, preferred.

• Completion of PGY-2 Specialty Pharmacy Residency, preferred.

• Clinical pharmacy experience (2-4 years) preferred (required if no PGY-2 or PGY -1 residency)

None

• Must provide evidence that incumbent is free of infectious and contagious disease, such as TB, prior to beginning employment and annually thereafter. - expected for all direct care staff, but mandatory for RCF staff.

• Successful completion of background check including criminal record, driving record and abuse/neglect.

• Completion of New Hire Orientation within 30 Days of employment.

• Privileging and Credentialing form (CPRC only) within thirty (30) days of employment.

• Extensive knowledge of the policies, procedures, and regulations of the program to which the associate is assigned.

• Valid Driver's license in state of Residency.

ADA Consideration - Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally (exists up the 1/3 of the time) and/or a negligible amount of force frequently (exists 1/3 to 2/3 of the time) to lift, carry, push, or pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time, but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.