Pharmacist Clinical Specialist Malignant Hematology

MedTeam Staffing Inc.; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

JobRx, Inc. is seeking a Pharmacy Clinical Specialist focused on Inpatient/Outpatient Malignant Hematology in Houston, TX. The role requires advanced clinical pharmacy duties, including medication management and collaboration with a multidisciplinary team to enhance patient outcomes.

The ideal candidate will have significant experience in oncology care and be committed to providing high-quality pharmaceutical services. Educational responsibilities also include mentoring pharmacy students and residents.

Qualifications

• Successful completion of an ASHP-accredited post-graduate year.
• 2 to 5+ years of experience in relevant clinical practice.

Responsibilities

• Oversee medication therapy for oncology patients.
• Collaborate with healthcare professionals to optimize drug effectiveness.
• Educate staff and students in clinical pharmacy practices.

Skills

Clinical decision making

Team collaboration

Medication management

Patient counseling

Proactive drug therapy reviews

Education

PhD in Pharmacy or equivalent experience

Texas Pharmacist License

Job description

Position: Pharmacy - Pharmacist Clinical Specialist - Inpatient/Outpatient Malignant Hematology

Location: Houston TX

Relocation assistance available

The Pharmacy Clinical Specialist position is responsible for performing advanced clinical pharmacy duties enabling the delivery of optimal pharmacotherapy to patients and facilitating safe, efficacious, and pharmacoeconomically rational use of medications in the populations served.

This position involves daily reactive and targeted proactive medication regimen reviews for patients within the designated area(s) of responsibility or populations served.

The Pharmacy Clinical Specialist supports the delivery of pharmacy managed protocols, formulary processes, and medication reconciliation activities while providing education to fellow pharmacists, nurses, and medical staff.

Additional duties include precepting pharmacy students and pharmacy residents on clinical patient care rotations within areas of responsibility and contributing to fulfilling the organization's mission to provide innovative, personalized, cost-effective pharmaceutical care in a culture dedicated to quality and safety.

Values

• INTEGRITY: We are honest and ethical in all we say and do.
• COMPASSION: We embrace the whole person including emotional, ethical, physical, and spiritual needs.
• ACCOUNTABILITY: We hold ourselves accountable for all our actions.
• RESPECT: We treat every individual as a person of worth, dignity, and value.
• EXCELLENCE: We strive to be the best at what we do and a model for others to emulate.

Service Standards

• Deliver personalized service using our Service Standards.
• Provide for exceptional patient/customer experiences by following our Standards of Practice of always using Positive Language (AIDET, Managing Up, Key Words).
• Intentionally collaborate with other healthcare professionals involved in patients/customers or employees' experiential journeys to ensure strong communication, ease of access to information, and a seamless experience.
• Involve patients (customers) in shift/handoff reports by enabling their participation in their plan of care as applicable to the given job.
• Actively support the organization's vision, fulfill the mission, and abide by the values.

People Essential Functions

• Promotes a positive work environment and contributes to a dynamic, team focused work unit that actively helps one another to achieve optimal department results. Collaborates with other health care professionals as needed for problem resolution and/or achievement of identified patient specific goals.
• Serves as a rotation preceptor for students from affiliated colleges of pharmacy and PGY1 or PGY2 pharmacy residents as well as being a mentor for staff pharmacists supporting clinical skill advancement.

Service Essential Functions

• Processes all orders/requests accurately and efficiently, verifying appropriateness of all drugs in reference to the patient's diagnosis, allergies, height and weight. Exercises good judgment in patient care decisions per performance standard and documents patient care activities and patient outcomes impacted by pharmaceutical care and clinical interventions.
• Provides patient-specific and non-patient specific drug information support regularly.
• Serves as a member on one or more Medical Staff Committees and actively contributes to accomplishing the goals of the committee.

Quality/Safety Essential Functions

• Collaborates with other health care professionals to manage patient's drug therapy for maximal effectiveness while minimizing side effects, adverse drug reactions, toxicities, drug interactions, and incompatibilities using established internal and external guidelines.
• Provides pharmaceutical care at the fundamental to advanced level for patients within the designated practice area(s). Activities include, but are not limited to, proactive drug therapy reviews and monitoring, patient counseling, transitions of care management including medication acquisition process support, and management of pharmacist-based dosing protocols.
• Participates in quality management initiatives such as, but not limited to: medication use evaluations, adverse drug reaction and medication error reporting, clinical interventions, medication center reviews, and inventory management documentation and reporting.

Finance Essential Functions

• Contributes to the provision of pharmacoeconomically sound medication therapy by upholding formulary standards in area(s) of responsibility and avoiding medication-related complications.
• Self-motivated to independently manage time; effectively prioritizing tasks for self and for others within the specialty area of focus.

Growth/Innovation Essential Functions

• Present in-services for pharmacy, medical, nursing, and other staff members in area(s) of responsibility. Develop educational materials and provide educational programs for the pharmacy staff and other hospital personnel.
• Seek opportunities to expand one's learning beyond fundamental competencies with a focus on continual development as a Pharmacy Clinical Specialist.
• Contribute to the design, analysis and reporting of quality improvement program findings.
• Participate in research projects to advance organizational quality of care and the pharmacy profession. Submit research and scholarly work for publication, platform presentations, and/or poster presentations.

Requirements

• Must have one of the following: Successful completion of an ASHP-accredited post-graduate year.
• PHRM - Pharmacist - State Licensure: Texas Pharmacist License.
• 2 to 5+ years of experience.

Ideal Candidate

Have both residencies completed (PGY1 & PGY2) or equivalent years of experience in Clinical Oncology.