Clinical Pharmacy Specialist

Emory Healthcare • Lithonia, GA

13d • $67 - $80

About The Position

The Clinical Pharmacy Specialist practices as a clinical expert in specialty practice areas and helps ensure appropriate medication therapy and institutional clinical outcomes. The role provides patient-centered, interdisciplinary pharmaceutical care, reviews and processes medication orders, evaluates patient profiles, monitors therapy, and prevents or resolves drug-related problems. The specialist supports recommendations with critical analysis of literature and documents clinical interventions, adverse drug events, and medication variances.

The position develops and promotes advanced clinical practice, collaborative practice agreements, protocols, guidelines, order sets, system nomograms, and policies and processes for medication use. It participates in clinical initiatives, formulary decisions, medication-use evaluations, quality improvement, safety analysis, and cost-savings and financial stewardship activities. The specialist may attend medical codes, coordinate transitions of care, educate patients and staff, train and precept learners, answer complex drug-information questions, and contribute to scholarly activities and professional education. The role also oversees pharmacy students, technicians, and pharmacists in the specialty area and performs other assigned duties.

Requirements

• Graduate of an accredited school of pharmacy.
• ASHP-accredited Post Graduate Year 1 and 2 residency or fellowship, or equivalent experience in the specialty area.
• Eligible for Georgia licensure and licensed in Georgia before the official start date.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification in accordance with the American Heart Association, required within 90 days.

Nice To Haves

• Relevant Pharmacy Specialty Board Certification is preferred.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification is required within six months if directly applicable to the practice specialty.

Responsibilities

• Practice as a clinical expert in specialty practice areas and promote evidence-based advanced clinical practice.
• Establish and practice under collaborative practice agreements to enhance pharmaceutical care.
• Ensure appropriate institution-wide medication therapy and clinical outcomes in the specialty area.
• Provide patient-centered, interdisciplinary pharmaceutical care and accurately process medication orders.
• Review patient profiles, monitor drug therapy, and recommend or make modifications according to protocol.
• Identify, prevent, and resolve drug-related problems in consultation with prescribers, documenting recommendations and interventions.
• Support recommendations with critical analysis of literature and answer drug-information questions using knowledge of research design, methodology, and biostatistics.
• Develop system nomograms, guidelines, protocols, order sets, and medication-use policies and processes.
• Promote documentation of clinical activities, adverse drug events, adverse drug reactions, and medication variances.
• Attend medical codes as applicable and participate in transitions-of-care coordination as appropriate.
• Develop and promote patient education materials and techniques for drug therapy, adverse effects, compliance, appropriate use, handling, and administration.
• Complete services and support patient satisfaction.
• Maintain clinical competency and knowledge of current trends through external professional activities.
• Develop accredited continuing education activities every two years.
• Precept pharmacy students and residents as available; train pharmacy and other disciplines, support department competency assurance, and assist pharmacists in advancing clinical skills.
• Participate in scholarly activities and routinely submit publications or national presentations.
• Recognize process failures and engage in analysis and improvement efforts; lead an annual medication-use evaluation or quality improvement project in the specialty area.
• Oversee pharmacy students, technicians, and pharmacists to ensure performance standards and regulatory compliance.
• Review safety trends and recommend patient safety solutions; promote ideas to improve quality and advance the profession.
• Provide departmental pharmacy financial stewardship for the specialty area, including medication-use policies, formulary review, medication selection, and cost-savings initiatives.
• Review medication insurance authorization status and maintain understanding of 340B practices as applicable.
• Oversee medication-use systems in the specialty area and participate in multidisciplinary or Emory Healthcare system committees.
• Perform other duties as assigned or requested.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior