Clinical Pharmacist Specialist

TriHealth•Cincinnati, OH

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Join TriHealth as a Clinical Pharmacist Specialist. TriHealth is seeking an experienced Inpatient Clinical Pharmacist Specialist to join our team at Bethesda North Hospital in Cincinnati, OH. In this full-time, day-shift role, you will play a vital part in delivering advanced, patient-centered care as a member of our interdisciplinary team. This position offers the opportunity to impact outcomes for patients while contributing to education, quality initiatives, and clinical innovation. The Clinical Pharmacist Specialists are responsible and accountable for the provision of safe, effective, and prompt medication therapy. Through various assignments within the department, they provide support of centralized and decentralized medication-use systems as well as deliver optimal medication therapy to patients with a broad range of disease states. Clinical Pharmacist Specialists proficiently provide direct patient-centered care and integrated pharmacy operational services in a decentralized practice setting with physicians, nurses, and other hospital personnel. These clinicians are aligned with target interdisciplinary programs and specialty services to deliver medication therapy management within specialty patient care services and to ensure pharmaceutical care programs are appropriately integrated throughout the institution. In these clinical roles, Clinical Pharmacist Specialists participate in all necessary aspects of the medication-use system while providing comprehensive and individualized pharmaceutical care to the patients in their assigned areas. They will serve as departmental resources and liaisons to other departments, hospital personnel, or external groups. The Clinical Specialists will also provide medication and practice-related education/training and actively serve as preceptors for Doctor of Pharmacy Students and pharmacy residents. General responsibilities include direct patient care by way of interdisciplinary rounds with malignant hematology and solid tumor service lines, teaching/precepting various pharmacy learners, provision of cross-coverage for the bone marrow transplant service, quality assurance reviews, formulary maintenance, and clinical initiative development. Rotating weekend call with the BMT pharmacy clinical coordinator.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in pharmacy; PharmD or Bachelor of Science degree with equivalent decentralized hospital pharmacy experience (3years) OR accredited PGY-1, PGY-2 residency
Pharmacist, Ohio Board of Pharmacy Licensure
Clinical mastery of dedicated area of pharmacy practice that is consistent with the job posting
1-2 years’ Clinical Pharmacy practice that is consistent with the job posting
1-2 years' experience Clinical Pharmacy Completion of ASHP-accredited PGY1 pharmacy residency or Board Certification in related area of practice
Strong interpersonal, analytical, organization, and problem-solving skills.
Ability to work collaboratively with diverse multidisciplinary teams.
Ability to effectively educate, instruct, and train pharmacists to a higher level of practice

Responsibilities

Assures pharmacy is an integral part of the health-care delivery system, leading assigned patient service lines, clinical areas, and therapeutic programs; and facilitating pharmaceutical care services, direct patient care programs, and medication utilization systems. 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 and identifies practice related issues. Develop and oversees policies and procedures.
Delivers direct patient care and clinical practice, including decentralized and service-based programs, maintaining proficiency in decentralized pharmacy services and clinical pharmacy programs. Is 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. Makes appropriate evidence-based, patient-centered medication recommendations, and provides discharge medication review, reconciliation, and counseling as appropriate. Participates in the management of medical emergencies.
Provides pharmaceutical services throughout medical center, maintaining proficiency in hospital computer systems and medication ordering systems. Provides accurate, safe, timely, and appropriate medication therapy. Completes critical patient monitoring and reviews patient profile/chart to identify, prevent, or mitigate drug-related problems and treatment failures. Communicates effectively and appropriately with healthcare providers and caregivers. Participates in new pharmacist orientation and contributes regularly to intra-departmental needs. Works closely with others to facilitate effective pharmacy education and competency evaluation.
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. Oversee pharmacy operations and technician practice/activities
Facilitates experiential education and practice advancement. Maintains proficiency in preceptor roles and actively emulates education/mentorship skills. Develops student, resident, and staff training experiences/competences 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
Communicates relevant information to other department members.
Assumes personal responsibility for professional development, particularly in ongoing clinical education.