Clinical Pharmacist | Inpatient Pharmacy | Part Time (40 hours biweekly)

Christiana Care Health Services • Newark, DE

11d • Onsite

About The Position

ChristianaCare is recruiting for a Clinical Pharmacist to join their team. This position is part-time (40 hours biweekly, 8-hour shifts) that primarily works day shift with an evening shift component and a weekend/holiday requirement; currently every 4th weekend and 1-2 holiday shifts per year. The Newark Campus operations run through a network of inpatient pharmacists, including a central pharmacy and satellite pharmacies that focus on critical care, emergency medicine, heart failure, investigational drugs, neonates, oncology, pediatrics, perioperative services, sterile and non-sterile compounding, transplant, and trauma. Clinical services include robust acute and ambulatory care services. In the acute care setting, the department employs a decentralized model of practice, placing pharmacists directly into patient care units as part of a multidisciplinary team.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree in Pharmacy or PharmD degree from an accredited College of Pharmacy required.
• Current licensure (or eligible to reciprocate) in the State of Delaware.

Nice To Haves

• ASHP-accredited pharmacy residency preferred or equivalent experience (3 years acute care).
• Board certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Participate in direct patient care through daily interdisciplinary rounds.
• Manage specific medication therapies per approved policies (e.g., warfarin, aminoglycosides, vancomycin, IV to PO conversions, renal dose adjustments, indication-directed dosing adjustments, selection of surgical prophylaxis medications).
• Evaluate drug efficacy, monitor therapeutic goals and outcomes, and review for contraindications/precautions.
• Order and evaluate laboratory tests per approved protocols to support medication therapy monitoring.
• Identify opportunities during chart review for counseling and medication history completion.
• Communicate recommendations directly with provider.
• Electronically document interventions and provide sign out as appropriate.
• Opportunities to serve as a preceptor for both pharmacy students and residents.
• Provide drug information to allied healthcare professionals and fulfill provider-initiated pharmacy consults.
• Assist with projects such as MUEs, drug monographs, and performance improvement activities.
• Review and interpret provider orders and dispense medication.
• Coordinate and supervise work-place activities.
• Assume responsibility of the satellite pharmacies including the sterile product processing in the IV Admixture Service lab and OR pharmacy.

Benefits

• Generous PTO plan
• 12-Week Fully Paid Parental Leave
• 403(b) with competitive employer match and Defined Contribution Retirement Plan
• Not-for-profit organization eligible with the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program
• Pharmacy Board Certification reimbursement
• health insurance
• paid time off
• retirement
• an employee assistance program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level