Pharmacist, Acute

Lifepoint Health • Mayfield, KY

23d • Onsite

About The Position

Jackson Purchase Medical Center is part of Lifepoint Health, a diversified healthcare delivery network with facilities coast to coast. We are driven by a profound commitment to prioritize your well-being so you can provide exceptional care to others. As a Pharmacist joining our team, you’re embracing a vital mission dedicated to making communities healthier. Join us on this meaningful journey where your skills, compassion and dedication will make a remarkable difference in the lives of those we serve. Come work where you are appreciated for who you are not just what you can do. Through incredible teamwork and a medical staff beyond what you typically find in a small town, Jackson Purchase Medical Center aims to deliver the best healthcare available in the greater Western Kentucky region. We treat you like family because you are family. From emergent to elective, our facility offers a wide variety of inpatient and outpatient services, including those offered at the New Beginnings Birthing Center, the Advanced Healing Wound Care Center and our accredited chest pain center.

Requirements

• Doctor of Pharmacy Degree
• Current license with the State Board of Pharmacy
• BCLS required
• Critical thinking, decisive judgment, and ability to work with minimal supervision in stressful environments.
• Rapid learning and navigation of multiple pharmacy/clinical software systems.
• Effective English communication (read, write, speak, and understand).
• Ability to complete the Skills Competency Checklist within 90 days of hire.

Nice To Haves

• ACLS preferred

Responsibilities

• Coordinates and provides pharmaceutical care for patients, collaborating with the interprofessional team to optimize safe, effective medication use.
• Reviews and verifies orders, manages drug therapy protocols, educates staff/patients, and supports quality and regulatory standards.
• Manages drug therapy protocols as part of an interdisciplinary team.
• Reviews, interprets, and evaluates medication orders to identify, prevent, and resolve drug-related problems.
• Provides drug information and education to medical staff, healthcare professionals, patients, and pharmacy students.
• Documents interventions and outcomes for drug therapy quality improvement.
• Verifies medication orders for accuracy/completeness prior to entry; checks filled medications prepared by technicians; maintains proficiency with pharmacy automated systems and software.
• Manages patients in an outpatient anticoagulation clinic, including point-of-care testing, result evaluation, dosing, and scheduling.
• Participates in performance improvement and required continuing education.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Multiple levels of medical, dental and vision coverage for full-time and part-time employees.
• Life, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity insurance, short- and long-term disability, paid family leave and paid time off.
• Higher education and certification tuition assistance, loan assistance and 401(k) retirement package and company match.
• Mental, physical, and financial wellness programs (free gym memberships, virtual care appointments, mental health services and discount programs).
• Ongoing learning and career advancement opportunities.

What This Job Offers

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