Clinical Specialist Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Licensed by the Georgia State Board of Pharmacy.
• Doctorate of Pharmacy plus one year residency.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Excellent clinical skills and judgment with the ability to effectively communicate with health care professionals.

Nice To Haves

• PGY1 REQUIRED

Responsibilities

• Identifies and resolves medication-related problems of varying complexity through interdisciplinary patient care rounds, profile review, and consult management.
• Applies knowledge of medication management and patient assessment skills to intervene and recommend appropriate evidence-based, cost-effective, and safe therapy.
• Collaborates with the Medication Safety team to detect, mitigate, and prevent medication adverse effects and/or outcomes.
• Supports the hospital's antimicrobial stewardship program by ensuring compliance with formulary restrictions, providing antimicrobial stewardship interventions, and educating healthcare providers on appropriate prescribing and guideline adherence.
• Serves as a subject matter expert in creating and updating evidence-based treatment pathways, guidelines, protocols, and order sets.
• Conducts research (IRB approved) and quality improvement projects, including medication utilization evaluations.
• Participates in the pharmacy residency program as a preceptor, preceptor-in-training, program director, program coordinator, or mentor, maintaining proficiency in preceptor roles.
• Serves as a pharmacy department resource to liaise and collaborate with other departments to improve the medication use system.
• Responds to drug information requests through retrieval, interpretation, and communication of pertinent medical literature.
• Educates patients and families on medication therapy.
• Provides formal and informal education to healthcare professionals, including the GME department, at the local, state, and national level to improve prescribing, administration, and monitoring of medication therapy.
• Serves as an appointed preceptor for introductory and advanced pharmacy practice experiences, preparing students for post-graduate residency training.
• Develops training experiences for pharmacists in medication consult management, pharmacotherapy, and decentralized pharmacy services.
• Represents the pharmacy department during DNV surveys in the respective practice area.
• Collaborates with other departments on reaching compliance with medication management standards.
• Serves as an active member of the P&T Committee by evaluating medications for addition or deletion from the formulary and developing criteria for use and/or therapeutic interchanges.
• Reviews and interprets primary literature and effectively presents pharmacy department proposal(s).
• Participates in hospital or system-wide committees as the subject matter expert, including but not limited to: Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee, Sepsis, Sedation, Resuscitation, Stroke, or other disease state committees.
• Completes other duties as assigned.
• Collects and reports intervention data for the Antimicrobial Stewardship Team.
• Conducts routine pharmacoeconomic assessments of the Antimicrobial Stewardship program across the health system.
• Coordinates the agenda for the Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee.