LOCATION: Houston (TX)
Join one of the nation’s leading health systems and academic medical centers with several hospitals, a research institute, a global business division, numerous physician practices, several free-standing emergency rooms, and outpatient facilities located throughout the greater Houston metropolitan area. Employing over 20,000 employees. the hospital provides the best patient care and service in a spiritual environment along with lots of opportunities for career growth and advancement. You’ll enjoy working in an excellent culture where you are valued, making this health system the ideal place to work!
The Pharmacy Clinical Specialist position is responsible for performing advanced clinical pharmacy duties enabling the delivery of optimal pharmacotherapy to patients and facilitating safe, efficacious, and pharmacoeconomically rational use of medications in the population(s) served. This position involves daily reactive and targeted proactive medication regimen reviews for patients within the designated area(s) of responsibility or populations served. The Pharmacy Clinical Specialist position supports the delivery of pharmacy managed protocols, formulary processes and medication reconciliation activities while providing education to fellow pharmacists, nurses, and medical staff. Additional duties for this position include precepting pharmacy students and pharmacy residents on clinical patient care rotations within areas of responsibility and contributing to fulfilling the organization’s mission to provide innovative, personalized, cost-effective pharmaceutical care in a culture dedicated to quality and safety.
Essential Functions:
- Promotes a positive work environment and contributes to a dynamic, team focused work unit that actively helps one another to achieve optimal department results. Collaborates with other health care professionals as needed for problem resolution and/or achievement of identified patient specific goals.
- Serves as a rotation preceptor for students from affiliated colleges of pharmacy and PGY1 or PGY2 pharmacy residents as well as being a mentor for staff pharmacists supporting clinical skill advancement.
Service Essential Functions:
- Processes all orders/requests accurately and efficiently, verifying appropriateness of all drugs in reference to the patient’s diagnosis, allergies, height and weight. Exercises good judgment in patient care decisions per performance standard and documents patient care activities and patient outcomes impacted by pharmaceutical care and clinical interventions.
- Provides patient-specific and non-patient specific drug information support regularly.
- Serves as a member on one or more Medical Staff Committees and actively contributes to accomplishing the goals of the committee.
Additional information will be provided to qualified candidates who apply with a resume.
This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive; the employee will also perform other reasonably related business/job duties as assigned. The Hospital reserves the right to revise job duties and responsibilities as the need arises.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Graduate of education program approved by the credentialing body for the required credential(s) indicated below in the Certifications, Licenses and Registrations section
- Must have one of the following:
- Successful completion of an ASHP-accredited post-graduate year one (PGY1) residency training program or equivalent experience (i.e., three years of pharmacy experience per residency year); ASHP-accredited post-graduate year two (PGY2) or fellowship preferred
- Three (3) years of clinical practice experience
- Meets Hospital standards of an ASHP-Qualified Residency Preceptor within one (1) year of employment
- Experience in Transplant that has gone through both residencies (PGY1 & 2)
The above statements reflect the general duties considered necessary to describe the principal functions of the job as identified and shall not be considered as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be inherent in the position.
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