Clinical Pharmacy Specialist Discharge Lounge Part Time

Corewell Health • Grand Rapids, MI

11d • Onsite

About The Position

The Clinical Pharmacy Specialist in the Mehney Discharge Lounge Clinic supports patients transitioning from inpatient care to home. The specialist provides comprehensive medication reviews, reconciles medications across care settings, and delivers clear, personalized education about treatment plans. The role aims to improve medication safety and adherence, reduce preventable readmissions, and support continuity of care. It includes working with physicians, nurses, care managers, and ancillary teams to resolve medication discrepancies, optimize therapy, and address affordability, access, and understanding barriers. The specialist also supports prescription processing and outpatient pharmacy coordination, with attention to safe initiation, monitoring, and follow-up for high-risk medications.

The specialist provides pharmaceutical care in an assigned practice area, supports clinical and cost-containment initiatives, provides drug information and education, and contributes to quality and process improvement. The role includes working with medication automation systems, evaluating patients and orders, applying pharmacokinetic principles, and advising physicians on dosage regimens. It also involves supporting staff pharmacists, facilitating specialty-related committee activities, maintaining professional competence, coordinating departmental publications, and precepting pharmacy residents and students as assigned.

This is a part-time, 100% onsite position at Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The schedule is three days per week, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., typically Tuesdays and Fridays and either Wednesday or Thursday. No weekends are required.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Science of Pharmacy or Doctor of Pharmacy degree from an accredited College of Pharmacy.
• Two years of relevant pharmacy experience or an ASHP Pharmacy Practice Residency.
• Two years of relevant hospital pharmacy experience or an ASHP Pharmacy Practice Residency.
• Michigan State clinical pharmacist license required within 90 days.
• Michigan State controlled substance pharmacist license required within 90 days.
• Basic Life Support certification from AHA or ARC required within 90 days.
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support certification from AHA, excluding ambulatory sites, required within 180 days, or ACLS certification from AHA, excluding ambulatory sites, required within 180 days.
• Able to work three days per week, including Tuesdays and Fridays consistently and either Wednesday or Thursday.
• Able to work onsite.

Nice To Haves

• ASHP-accredited PGY2 residency in the area of specialty.
• Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist certification through ASHP or BPS preferred upon hire.
• PharmD degree and a PGY1 or PGY2 residency.
• Strong interest in the Discharge Lounge patient population.
• Community pharmacy experience.
• Direct patient care counseling experience.
• Epic experience.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate educational programs and activities to enhance the clinical drug knowledge of pharmacists, physicians, nurses, and other care providers.
• Work with staff pharmacists to increase participation in drug monitoring, pharmacokinetics, and cost-containment activities.
• Provide pharmaceutical care to patients in the assigned practice area; implement cost-containment programs; and provide drug information, education, and clinical services that enhance drug therapy and minimize patient risk.
• Work with multiple medication automation systems.
• Evaluate patients and medication orders, and take a lead role in ordering and interpreting drug serum levels using pharmacokinetic principles.
• Provide physicians with dosage regimen recommendations to improve therapeutic outcomes, reduce patient risk, and reduce drug therapy costs.
• Provide drug information and educational services to health care professionals, patients, and families; assist staff pharmacists with drug information requests.
• Serve as an information resource and clinical practice role model for staff pharmacists.
• Coordinate and implement departmental drug utilization reviews and other assigned process-improvement activities.
• Monitor processes and services for quality, cost effectiveness, and efficiency.
• Engage in process and quality improvement activities and recommend and implement improvements to operational efficiency and services.
• Facilitate applicable Pharmacy Committee activities in the area of specialty and participate on other committees or task forces as assigned.
• Maintain professional competence, knowledge, and skills through ongoing study and complete required training and education on time.
• Coordinate development, editing, and dissemination of departmental publications for physicians and hospital staff.
• Precept pharmacy residents and students as assigned.
• Perform medication reviews and reconciliation for patients transitioning from inpatient care to home; educate patients about their medication plans.
• Collaborate with care teams to resolve medication discrepancies, optimize therapy, address medication access barriers, coordinate prescription processing, and support safe initiation and follow-up of high-risk medications.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package to support financial, health, and work/life balance goals, subject to employment type and status.
• On-demand pay program powered by Payactiv.
• Discounts directory with offers on restaurants, phone plans, spas, and other items.
• Optional identity theft protection, home and auto insurance.
• Traditional and Roth retirement options with service contribution and matching savings.

What This Job Offers

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