Clinical Pharmacist NE-PRN
About The Position
The pharmacist serves as part of the healthcare team, supporting personalized relationships with patients and their chosen support systems. The pharmacist collaborates with team members to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate individualized plans of care that promote optimal health, and accepts responsibility and accountability for managing and providing care in accordance with current policies and procedures. The role supports medication management and safety through patient assessments, therapy monitoring, clinical decision support, documentation, and direct patient care activities where available. It also includes communicating with patients and care teams, maintaining evidence-based knowledge, supporting quality and workflow, and educating and mentoring pharmacists, students, residents, and other healthcare providers. Additional duties may be assigned.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy or Foreign Pharmacy Graduate Equivalency Committee (FPGEC) certification.
- One year of experience required; qualifying experience is a postgraduate year 1 residency or fellowship, or at least two years of experience as a registered pharmacist in health system pharmacy.
- Current Virginia Pharmacist licensure, to be completed within 30 days of the start date by examination or reciprocity.
- American Heart Association (AHA) Health Care Provider BLS certification.
- Ability to drive or travel to multiple facilities and locations as needed.
- Ability to work as part of a high-performing, change-ready, resilient team.
- Ability to perform the job’s physical demands, including constant standing, frequent walking and bending/stooping, and lifting, pushing, or pulling up to 100 pounds; Safe Handling Equipment must be used for weights over 35 pounds.
- Proficient communication, auditory, and visual skills; attention to detail; and ability to write legibly.
Responsibilities
- Provide optimal medication management and promote medication safety.
- Perform patient assessments and participate in direct patient care activities and rounding opportunities where available.
- Monitor therapy for appropriateness, dosage, effectiveness, interactions, and adverse drug reactions.
- Review and act upon clinical decision support surveillance.
- Complete required organizational and/or departmental documentation.
- Prescribe and/or administer medications as allowed by law and scope of practice.
- Maintain current, evidence-based knowledge required for services provided.
- Communicate consistently and respond to service-line requests and inquiries in a timely manner.
- Participate in patient education and wellness initiatives within the scope of practice.
- Check and control the quality and accuracy of work performed by pharmacy team members.
- Prioritize workflow to ensure services are performed in a timely manner.
- Maintain and follow formulary approvals, interchanges, stocked medications, and non-formulary processes.
- Monitor and enhance compliance with clinical programs.
- Develop and deliver education to pharmacists and other healthcare providers.
- Precept residents and students.
- Participate in onboarding pharmacists and other team members.
- Provide ongoing feedback to fellow pharmacists and mentor the pharmacy team.
- Travel or drive to multiple facilities or locations as needed.
- Perform additional duties as assigned.
