Pediatric Critical Care Pharmacist

Lloyd Central Compounding Pharmacy; Portland (OR); On-site; USD 159,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Lloyd Central Compounding Pharmacy is seeking a Pediatric Critical Care Pharmacist to join the Inpatient Pharmacy team in Portland, OR. The role involves ensuring safe medication use across neonates to elderly patients, with responsibilities spanning drug information, reconciliation, discharge counseling, and care coordination from admission to discharge.

The position requires a current Oregon pharmacist license and the ability to collaborate with physicians, nurses, and other healthcare

Qualifications

• Current Pharmacist license issued by Oregon State Board of Pharmacy.
• Experience or training in specialized area may be required at time of recruitment.

Responsibilities

• Identify, resolve and document complex therapeutic problems for specific patient populations.
• Answer drug information requests from physicians, nurses, patients and families; review literature and apply to patient care.
• Monitor therapeutic response and adverse effects; report adverse drug events and medication errors.

Skills

Interdisciplinary teamwork

Drug information

Clinical decision making

Communication

Patient education

Education

Pharm.D. with residency or certification

BS in Pharmacy

Tools

EMR systems

Job description

Description

Pediatric Critical Care Pharmacist

US-OR-Portland

Requisition ID: 2026-41084

Position Category: Pharmacy

Job Type: AFSCME union represented

Position Type: Regular Full-Time

Posting Department: Inpatient Pharmacy

Posting Salary Range: $158,617.42 - $240,191.12 per year with offer based on experience, education and internal equity

Posting FTE: 0.80

Posting Schedule: Mondays - Sundays

HR Mission: Healthcare

Drug Testable: Yes

Department Overview

The purpose of this position is to provide the services of a licensed pharmacist which includes the responsibility for the safe and proper distribution and use of medications in inpatients and outpatients who range in age from neonates, infants less than one year of age, children and adolescents ages 10-18, adults ages 19-65 and the elderly over age 65.

This position is to function at higher decision making and accountability levels regarding medication therapy, proactively affecting medication use by making recommendations at the time prescribing decisions are being made or, in some cases, making independent decisions about medication therapy in cooperation with other healthcare team members. Additional services provided include facilitatation of medication reconciliation, discharge counseling, and medication delivery through coordination of care from admission to discharge. The pharmacist must possess strong communication skills for patient education and work collaboratively with inpatient and outpatient interdisciplinary teams including but not limited to providers, nurses, case workers, pharmacists, and technicians, as well as, the teaching and precepting component of students, interns and/or residents.

This is a flexible model where the coordination during transitions of care and medication use system for patients are integrated with traditionally centralized functions, such as order entry/verifications and will continue to evolve as part of integrated decentralized patient care practice.

Function/Duties of Position

• Identifies, resolves and documents complex therapeutic problems, demonstrating advanced knowledge and application of this knowledge to a specific patient population.
• Responds accurately to requests for drug information from physicians, nurses, patients and patient's families; independently reviews and interprets the literature and applies this information to specific patient care situations.
• Monitors therapeutic response and adverse effects of medications to guide drug therapy. Consults with provider when questions or problems are identified. Appropriately reports all adverse drug reactions, drug defects, and medication errors.
• Directs the work of students/residents and monitors and evaluates their performance. Influences standards of therapy by forming peer level relationships with attending medical staff members; is recognized as a drug authority in a specialized practice area by physicians, nurses and pharmacists.
• Assists in the development of treatment guidelines to be used in patients with specific diagnosis. Documents activities in the patient medical record, pharmacy monitoring profile, drug use evaluation data collection or adverse drug reaction reporting program.
• Interprets and evaluates physician's orders and prescriptions for accuracy, completeness and appropriateness.
• Participates in both intra and interdepartmental education programs; participates in the development of peers.

Required Qualifications

• A current Pharmacist's license issued by the Oregon State Board of Pharmacy.
• OHSU may require training or experience in a specialized area at time of recruitment.

Job Related Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (Competencies):

• Demonstrates the ability to: Enforce pharmaceutical care principles safely and accurately
• Make age-related modification of drug therapy
• Make disease-related modification of drug therapy
• Evaluate medical literature
• Work independently without minimal direct supervision
• Handle multiple tasks and frequent interruptions
• Communicate effectively both formally and infomrally, including presentations
• Project manage Work with a team
• professionally and collaboratively Set priorities to respond quickly to emergent situations/requests
• Work cooperatively with health-system and pharmacy staff
• Communicate effectively and professionally (orally and in writing)
• Perform work accurately with attention to detail
• Exercise sound professional judgement
• Perform systematic problem solving
• Enforce practice guidelines,standards, and medication related policies
• Make critical decisions Perform key computuer related skills including use of the EMR, common word processing, spreadsheet, medical literature and medicatioin databases

Preferred Qualifications

• BS in Pharmacy or Pharm.D. PLUS Practice Residency or Specialist Certification (BCPS, BCOPS, etc) or 5 years minimum appropriate experience
• Inpatient hospital pharmacy practice: Ability to meet the pharmaceutical care needs of the following patient care types: Acute care, psychiatric, rehabilitiaion, skilled nursing, long-term care, obstetric, oncology, chemically dependent, HIV, home care, hospice.
• PGY-2 Specialty Residency BLS/PALS certification Vaccination certification Teaching Certificate.
• Pediatric clinical pharmacist experience
• Experience establishing a new clinical service line Background and understanding of pregnancy impact on drug delivery for both the mother and fetus/newborn)

Additional Details

The pharmacist will experience competing demands from nurses, physicians, pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals, as they attempt to influence clinical decision‑making, clinical policies and practices and workflow. The pharmacist must deal with intense situations on a daily basis. In addition, within the healthcare setting there can be significant lack of control over the work pace, with frequent interruptions (work is often dictated by external factors) that may lead to mental fatigue or stress.