Pharmacy Specialist - Labor Pool

Newport News, Virginia

Hiring Range

$64.00 - $92.80/Hourly Actual pay is determined based on job-related factors such as relevant experience, education, credentials, skills, internal equity, and business needs.
Overview
The Clinical Pharmacy Specialist provides patient-centered, safe, effective and comprehensive medication management support in both centralized and decentralized medication use systems and serves as a departmental resource for pharmacy team members and as a liaison within their specialty to hospital personnel or external groups and provides practice-related interventions, education, and training. Leading process improvement projects and participation in the quality management program by gathering and analyzing data, implementing interventions, monitoring outcomes, facilitating pharmaceutical care integration, and ensuring regulatory compliance is expected. The Clinical Pharmacy Specialist demonstrates integrity and competency and performs all functions of the Clinical Pharmacist.

What you will do

• Leads assigned patient service lines, clinical areas, and therapeutic programs
• Delivers direct patient care and clinical practice, including decentralized and service-based programs
• Provides pharmaceutical services throughout assigned areas
• Facilitates experiential education and practice advancement
• Participates in pharmacy operations and medication dispensing

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelors Degree, or higher in Pharmacy (Required)

Experience

• 1 year Completion of ASHP PGY-1 Residency, OR (Required)
• 3-4 years Clinical Pharmacist Experience (with one year of desired specialty population preferred) (Required)
• 1 year Completion or ASHP PGY-2 Residency (Preferred)
• 2 years Additional clinical pharmacy experience in desired specialty pharmacy population when ASHP PGY-1 Residency is complete (Preferred)

Skills and Abilities

• 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. Maintains professionalism in all communication and interactions both written and oral.
• Leads assigned patient service lines, clinical areas, and therapeutic programs
• Facilitates pharmaceutical care services, 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
• Establish, lead, and maintain long- and short-term goals for the Quality Management Program; leading, monitoring, and documenting Quality Improvement (QI) Projects for progress in meeting QI goals
• Providing guidance and education to staff on Quality Management priorities and projects
• 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 decentralized and service-based programs
• Maintains proficiency in decentralized pharmacy services and clinical pharmacy programs
• Works as an active member of multidisciplinary team and collaborates with healthcare providers within decentralized patient care areas to provide patient-centered care
• 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 assigned areas
• 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 pharmacy staff, 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
• Maintains proficiency in and actively engages in operational programs, central dispensing pharmacies, satellite dispensing pharmacies, and specialty pharmacy areas as appropriate for job assignment
• Facilitates specialty medication procurement, ordering, and dispensing procedures including but not limited to chemotherapy, parenteral nutrition, controlled substances, etc. as appropriate for assignment
• Oversees pharmacy operations and technician practice/activities when assigned/appropriate
• Facilitates experiential education and practice advancement
• Maintains proficiency in preceptor roles and actively emulates education/mentorship skills
• Develops student, resident, and 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
• Expected to support education through professional presentations (e.g. posters, lectures, engagement in external organization support)

Licenses and Certifications

• Licensed Pharmacist - Virginia Department of Health Professions (VDHP) within 60 Days(Required)
• CPR/BLS Certification - American Heart Association/American Red Cross/American Safety and Health Institute (AHA/ARC) (Preferred)
• Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (Preferred)
• Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (In area of hired specialty preferred) within 2 Years(Required)

To learn more about being a team member with Riverside Health System visit us at https://www.riversideonline.com/careers.