Clinical Pharmacist | Every Other Weekend | Day/ Evening Shift Rotation

Union Hospital of Cecil County, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 80,000 - 128,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

PTO

Parental leave

Care.com membership

Job summary

ChristianaCare Cecil Campus seeks a Pharmacist with a BS in Pharmacy (PharmD preferred) to participate in rounds on ICU and other units, serve as a clinical resource for providers, and support antimicrobial stewardship and other core clinical activities.

This is an every-other-weekend, 16-hour shift with day/evening coverage, holidays as required. ChristianaCare offers comprehensive benefits within a nationally recognized health system.

Qualifications

• BS degree in Pharmacy required.
• PharmD degree preferred.
• ASHP-accredited PGY-1 Pharmacy Practice Residency required; equivalent experience will be considered (3 years of acute care hospital experience).
• Current/eligible for licensure in the state of Maryland.
• Board certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate drug efficacy, document drug use patterns, monitor therapeutic goals and outcomes, review for contraindications/precautions, drug–drug, drug–food, drug–laboratory, and drug–disease state potentials as well as provide verbal and written consultations concerning drug therapy as requested.
• Evaluate appropriate laboratory tests necessary to monitor and support the patient’s drug therapy as well as document recommendations, interventions, and services rendered as appropriate.
• Report, record, assess, and evaluate adverse drug reactions.
• Provide accurate, timely, and cost-effective drug information to medical, pharmacy, nursing, and other healthcare professionals.
• Serve as a resource and mentor for the staff pharmacist.
• Support and assist interdepartmental projects such as MUEs, P&T drug monographs, newsletter articles and performance improvement activities.
• Provide informative sessions or materials to patient groups or healthcare professionals as needed.
• Serve as a preceptor for both pharmacy students and pharmacy residents.

Skills

Clinical rounds

Antimicrobial stewardship

Drug information

Precepting

Education

BS degree in Pharmacy

PharmD degree preferred

ASHP PGY-1 Residency required

Maryland licensure eligible

Board certification preferred

Job description

Job Details: Do you want to work at one of the top 100 hospitals in the nation? Our amazing Pharmacy Team dispenses approximately 8 million individualized patient doses per year, as well as 262,000 retail/mail order prescriptions. We provide medications that are safe and efficacious. Life is full of choices, and whom you work for is one of life's most important decisions. ChristianaCare has earned national recognition for excellence. Choose an organization that provides career advancement and the opportunity to impact health. Come and join us in the ChristianaCare Pharmacy - Dedicated to getting the right drug to the right patient at the right time!

The position requires a PGY1 Residency and will actively participate in rounds for both ICU and other unit(s) as needed. In this position, you will serve as a clinical resource for providers and staff. You will also assist with antimicrobial stewardship program efforts, in addition to other listed duties and responsibilities that are central to our clinical pharmacy program.

This is an every other weekend position (16 hours, 8 hour shifts) that primarily works day shift with an evening shift component. Holidays as required.

Why ChristianaCare?

At the Cecil Campus, operations run through a network of inpatient pharmacies, including a central pharmacy that focus on critical care, emergency medicine, neonates, oncology, pediatrics, perioperative services, sterile and non-sterile compounding and trauma. Clinical services include robust acute and ambulatory care services. In the acute care setting, the department employs a decentralized model of practice, placing pharmacists directly into patient care units as part of a multidisciplinary team.

Education and Experience Requirements:

• BS degree in Pharmacy required.
• PharmD degree preferred.
• ASHP-accredited PGY-1 Pharmacy Practice Residency required; equivalent experience will be considered (3 years of acute care hospital experience).
• Current/eligible for licensure in the state of Maryland.
• Board certification preferred.

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate drug efficacy, document drug use patterns, monitor therapeutic goals and outcomes, review for contraindications/precautions, drug –drug, drug-food, drug-laboratory, and drug-disease state potentials as well as provide verbal and written consultations concerning drug therapy as requested.
• Evaluate appropriate laboratory tests necessary to monitor and support the patient’s drug therapy as well as document recommendations, interventions, and services rendered as appropriate.
• Report, record, assess, and evaluate adverse drug reactions.
• Provide accurate, timely, and cost-effective drug information to medical, pharmacy, nursing, and other healthcare professionals.
• Serve as a resource and mentor for the staff pharmacist.
• Support and assist interdepartmental projects such as MUEs, P&T drug monographs, newsletter articles and performance improvement activities.
• Provide informative sessions or materials to patient groups or healthcare professionals as needed.
• Serve as a preceptor for both pharmacy students and pharmacy residents.

ChristianaCare Offers:

• Incredible Work/Life benefits including medical/dental/ vision insurance coverage on your first day of employment, paid PTO, retirement plans, twelve weeks of paid parental leave, annual membership to care.com, access to backup care services for dependents through Care@Work, retirement planning services, financial coaching, fitness and wellness reimbursement, and great discounts through several vendors for hotels, rental cars, theme parks, shows, sporting events, movie tickets and much more!

Hourly Pay Range: $58.26 - $93.22

Christiana Care Health System offers a competitive suite of employee benefits to maximize the wellness of you and your family, including health insurance, paid time off, retirement, an employee assistance program.

Christiana Care Health System is an equal opportunity employer, firmly committed to prohibiting discrimination, whose staff is reflective of its community, and considers qualified applicants for open positions without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity or expression, age, veteran status, disability, pregnancy, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.

Christiana Hospital, Newark, Delaware. This 1,007-bed, 1.3-million-square-foot modern facility provides a level of care only available in large-scale teaching hospitals. Christiana Hospital includes Delaware's only Level-I Trauma center (as verified by the American College of Surgeons), which is prepared to handle the most extreme medical emergencies. In fact, it is the only Level-I Trauma center on the East Coast corridor between Baltimore and Philadelphia. Christiana Hospital has also been nationally recognized in U.S. News & World Report's Best Regional Hospitals rankings as #1 in Delaware and #3 in the Philadelphia metro area, plus High Performing in 9 Adult Procedures/Conditions.

To learn more about our benefits for eligible positions visit https://careers.christianacare.org/benefits-compensation/