Clinical Staff Pharmacist

Humboldt Park Health • Chicago, IL

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Clinical Staff Pharmacist is responsible for reviewing, processing, and modifying medication orders to maintain accurate medication profiles. This role involves supervising pharmacy technicians in various medication-related tasks, monitoring drug therapies for appropriateness and safety, and ensuring compliance with hospital guidelines and regulations. The pharmacist also serves as a key resource for drug information, participates in quality improvement projects, and manages controlled substances.

Requirements

• Graduate of an ACPE accredited college of pharmacy.
• Pharmacist licensure required.

Responsibilities

• Reviews, processes, and modifies medication orders to maintain a current and accurate medication profile.
• Supervises, directs, and reviews all activities involved with the compounding, storing, inventory, labeling, recording, or preparing medications by pharmacy technicians.
• Monitors drug therapies to evaluate appropriateness of use, dose, dosage form, regimen, route, therapeutic levels, drug interactions, and therapeutic duplication.
• Monitors the use of drugs for compliance with prescribing criteria, guidelines, formulary, and protocols established by Norwegian American Hospital.
• Detects, monitors, documents, and reports adverse drug reactions and medication errors.
• Serves as a resource of drug information for all practitioners and patients (i.e. drug identification, side effects, adverse events, interactions, medication counseling, etc.).
• Participates in pharmacy quality assessment/performance improvement (QA/PI) projects and/or initiatives.
• Assures proper control, documentation, and record keeping of controlled substances.
• Ensures all state and federal regulatory requirements are maintained.

What This Job Offers

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