Critical Care Clinical Pharmacist Specialist - Full Time

Hackensack Meridian Health•Brick, NJ

4d•Onsite

About The Position

Our team members are the heart of what makes us better. At Hackensack Meridian Health we help our patients live better, healthier lives — and we help one another to succeed. With a culture rooted in connection and collaboration, our employees are team members. Here, competitive benefits are just the beginning. It’s also about how we support one another and how we show up for our community. Together, we keep getting better - advancing our mission to transform healthcare and serve as a leader of positive change. The Clinical Pharmacist Specialist oversees drug usage and ensures drug therapy optimization. Educates healthcare professionals and patients regarding medication use.

Requirements

Degree from an accredited College of Pharmacy.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Proficient computer skills that include but are not limited to Microsoft Office and/or Google Suite platforms.
Registered Pharmacist License.

Nice To Haves

PGY1 Pharmacy Residency.
PGY2 Pharmacy Residency.
Prior Clinical Specialist experience.
Board certification.

Responsibilities

Maintains an effective adverse drug reaction and medication variance reporting program, ensuring information is organized, strategies to increase reporting are identified and implemented, reports are timely, and data is analyzed with trends identified and actions taken.
Participates in assigned committees and generates minutes, agendas, monographs, and newsletters as assigned, routinely attending meetings and understanding their goals and strategy.
Responds to immediate medication needs/questions from pharmacy, nursing, and/or physicians in a timely and accurate manner. Develops alternate strategies for drug shortages. Develops and implements a yearly clinical cost reduction plan, making additions and deletions as circumstances change.
Strives to develop good rapport with the medical staff by actively seeking out opportunities to interact and direct prescribing.
Develops and maintains all promotional materials for residency programs, develops an interview process for prospective candidates, attends events to promote the program, and tracks program graduates.
Evaluates the quality of all evaluations for residents, preceptors, and rotations to ensure compliance with ASHP requirements. Mentors residents to ensure educational needs are satisfied. Educates pharmacists, nurses, physicians, students, and other healthcare professionals, with a minimum of 6 documented in-services, presentations, or lectures per year to pharmacy staff, and provides documented information requests.
Rounds with physicians on a routine basis, providing clinical information before orders are written. Documentation should validate the use of more cost-effective treatments, a reduction in the use of non-formulary medications, and information given at the bedside.
Other duties and/or projects as assigned.
Adheres to HMH Organizational competencies and standards of behavior.