Clinical Pharmacist

HCA Florida Osceola Hospital; Kissimmee (FL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Wellbeing support

Time away from work

401(k) with company match

Education support

Fertility and family benefits

Job summary

HCA Florida Osceola Hospital in Kissimmee, FL is seeking a Clinical Pharmacist who supports the organization’s commitment to quality care and affordability. The role contributes to hospital-wide improvement in safety, efficiency, and patient outcomes while aligning with formulary guidelines and cost containment.

Responsibilities span medication education, risk mitigation, and collaboration with clinicians to optimize pharmacotherapy.

Qualifications

• Pharmacist licensed to practice in Florida.
• Competence in hospital-based pharmacotherapy and safety.
• Ability to contribute to formulary and cost containment.

Responsibilities

• Contributes to hospital-wide improvements in patient safety and service excellence.
• Evaluates workflows to improve quality and performance outcomes.
• Educates staff on medications and participates in pharmacoeconomic opportunities.

Skills

Pharmacist

Education

Bachelors Degree

Job description

Do you want to join an organization that invests in you as a(an) Clinical Pharmacist? At HCA Florida Osceola Hospital, you come first. HCA Healthcare has committed up to $300 million in programs to support our incredible team members over the course of three years.

Job Summary and Qualifications

Organization Policies & Process Improvement

Actively contributes to and works toward hospital wide improvement in meeting core measures, patient safety and service excellence goals.Continuously evaluates work process and design; understands role in ensuring quality/performance improvement, productivity, and service delivery to meet stakeholder needs.Performs duties in accordance with departmental policies and procedures, and recognized professional, quality, patient safety, environmental and infection control standards. Demonstrates knowledge of the occurrence reporting system. Uses system to report potential patient safety issues.Follows established guidelines for reporting a significant medical error or unanticipated outcome in the patients care which results in patient harm. Identifies and communicates any patient, family and significant other education needs in collaboration with other disciplines, and participates in on-going medication education relevant to those needs. Provides periodic medication related educational in-services to hospital staff and other caregivers. Anticipates and responds quickly to patient needs as assigned within scope of practice.Acknowledges patients appropriately. Introduces self and others. Explains purpose of visit/care and communicates anticipated duration to enhance patient experience. Uses key words at key times.Demonstrates patient connection utilizing "sit, touch and talk" as appropriate. Fosters positive first impression by ensuring all work areas are organized, clean and project a professional appearance.Promotes a professional image and acts as an ambassador inside and outside the organization. Takes ownership and demonstrates service excellence principles in all interactions with the patient, physician and others. Ensures patient's safety, dignity and privacy at all times. Conscientiously performs formulary substitutions as appropriate to assist the department in meeting drug cost budget.Assists with cost containment measures related to high-cost and/or newly emergent pharmacotherapy that may adversely impact pharmaceutical spending. Identifies pharmacoeconomic opportunities, designs improvement plan, affects change, and monitors outcome. Submits and analyzes financial and operational reports. Optimizes use of supplies, equipment and services, ensuring a high level of clinical care at the lowest cost. Actively seeks ways to control costs without compromising patient safety, quality of care, or the services delivered. Actively participates in improving operational efficiency, effectiveness and achievement of established goals/performance metrics.

What qualifications you will need:

• Pharmacist


• Bachelors Degree

No Travel Required

No experience Required Years of Experience

Benefits

HCA Florida Osceola Hospital, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services


• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services


• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence


• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling


• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing


• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Learn more about Employee Benefits

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

HCA Florida Osceola Hospital is a 404-bed tertiary care hospital. We are accredited by the Joint Commission and are a Level II Trauma Center. We are a teaching hospital in collaboration with UCF College of Medicine. Our hospital is conveniently and centrally located in the Heart of Kissimmee. We are only minutes from Orlando, St. Cloud, Celebration, and Poinciana. We are committed to enhancing the standard of healthcare by providing services including Emergency Care, Trauma Care, Pediatric ER, Heart & Vascular Institute, and Comprehensive Stroke Center. Other services include The Baby Suites Maternity Care, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Level II, Women's Services, Behavioral Health, Orthopedics & Spine, and a Graduate Medical Education Program. We expand our care to the community with our freestanding Emergency Department at Hunter's Creek ER.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"Good people beget good people."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr. HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.