Clinical Pharmacist

Sentara Health•Hampton, VA

10d•Onsite

About The Position

Sentara Careplex Hospital is hiring a Clinical Pharmacist for our team! This is a Part Time position with 40 hours per week, featuring rotating shifts including overnight, weekend, and holiday rotations. The Clinical Pharmacist is responsible and accountable for providing safe, effective, and prompt pharmacy services. They participate in all necessary aspects of the medication-use system while delivering comprehensive and individualized pharmaceutical care to patients in their assigned areas. This role requires the ability to work independently, manage patient drug therapy, ensure medication order appropriateness, and maintain current knowledge of medications and disease states. The pharmacist will serve as a primary resource for drug information and education, provide patient counseling, assist in training new employees, and take ownership of assigned tasks. Adherence to policies and procedures, continuous learning, and demonstrating superior customer service, communication, decision-making, and organizational skills are essential. The role also involves ensuring adequate supply availability, triaging and escalating issues, using appropriate systems for patient information, maintaining quality assurance, and operating pharmacy equipment correctly. Precepting pharmacy students is also a responsibility. Additional duties may be assigned.

Requirements

Bachelors Level Degree in Pharmacy (Required)
Virginia Pharmacist License (Required)
Basic Life Support (BLS) (Required)

Nice To Haves

Doctorate Level Degree in Pharmacy (Preferred)
Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) (Preferred)
Previous Clinical Experience (Preferred)
Oncology Experience (Preferred)
Residency Trained (Preferred)

Responsibilities

Demonstrates the ability to work in areas of pharmacy practice competently and independently
Manages patient drug therapy in accordance with applicable clinical practice standards
Assures the appropriateness of all provider medication orders in maintaining a high level of patient care and safety
Maintains current knowledge of medication use and disease states applicable to their area of practice
Serves as the primary resource for drug information and education
Provides in-depth patient counseling when required
Participates in the training of new employees as assigned
Assumes local responsibility and ownership for assigned tasks
Consistently follows policies and procedures
Continually seeks out additional training opportunities and stays abreast of new and changing information for assigned areas
Demonstrates superior customer service, effective communication, decision-making, and organization to ensure efficient job performance and success
Serves as a role model in the following areas: professionalism, collaboration, and teamwork.
Ensures adequate supplies are available for continuous patient care
Triages and escalates any questions or issues outside the scope of practice as needed
Uses appropriate systems for processing of patient information
Ensures quality assurance is maintained according to departmental and legal requirements
Operates pharmacy equipment appropriately
Precepts pharmacy students as assigned
In addition to the above job responsibilities, other duties may be assigned

Benefits

Medical, Dental, Vision plans
Adoption, Fertility and Surrogacy Reimbursement up to $10,000
Paid Time Off and Sick Leave
Paid Parental & Family Caregiver Leave
Emergency Backup Care
Long-Term, Short-Term Disability, and Critical Illness plans
Life Insurance
401k/403B with Employer Match
Tuition Assistance – $5,250/year and discounted educational opportunities through Guild Education
Student Debt Pay Down – $10,000
Reimbursement for certifications and free access to complete CEUs and professional development
Pet Insurance
Legal Resources Plan
Colleagues may have the opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus if established system and employee eligibility criteria is met