Clinical Pharmacist Specialist, Inpatient Psychiatry

Clinical Pharmacist Specialist, Inpatient Psychiatry

Location: 1035 Cambridge Street

Job Type: Full time

Work Shift: Day

Hours/Week: 40.00

Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) is a vibrant, innovative health system dedicated to providing equity and excellence for everyone, every time. It is comprised of 3 acute care hospital sites in Cambridge, Everett and Somerville, the Cambridge Public Health Department, and more than 20 primary care/ambulatory care sites.

The Clinical Pharmacist Specialist in Inpatient Psychiatry is responsible for providing pharmaceutical care for our adult and geriatric psychiatry units. Primary, essential job functions include daily rounding with a multidisciplinary care team, ensuring rational drug therapy, serving as a clinical role model for staff, precepting PGY1 pharmacy residents and APPE students from area colleges of pharmacy, providing education and training to healthcare professionals, contributing to the P&T Committee, and representing the Pharmacy Enterprise on related CHA-wide multidisciplinary committees.

• Regularly provides clinical pharmacotherapy services via inpatient care team rounding.
• Monitors drug therapy using implicit and explicit criteria to ensure safety and effectiveness.
• Performs formal and informal medication use consults with appropriate documentation.
• Provides direct, effective, and individualized education and counseling to patients and/or family members/caregivers.
• Demonstrates and documents value to healthcare team through pharmaceutical care contributions/interventions.
• Promotes medication safety among colleagues and on behalf of patients in specialty area.
• Assesses need, develops and/or refines clinical pharmacy programs. Assesses clinical and financial impact of efforts on an ongoing basis.
• Evaluates medication use (i.e., formal usage evaluations); effects measurable improvements in medication use process.
• Assists in maintenance of Drug Formulary. Reviews new requests, non-formulary requests, and evolving literature on behalf of P and T Committee.
• Develops drug use restrictions, guidelines, and protocols for consideration by P&T Committee.
• Leads staff development efforts in clinical area(s)
• Serves as a preceptor for PGY1 pharmacy residents and APPE students.

• Graduate of an accredited college/university with B.S. in Pharmacy or Pharm.
  
  D. degree is required.
• Board Certification is required. (or agreement to obtain certification within 2 years of employment)
• Certification by a relevant specialty body/discipline is desirable.
• Completion of an ASHP-accredited residency is desirable.
• Licensure:
  Must have a current license in good standing from the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Pharmacy or be eligible for licensure in MA.

• Completion of an ASHP-accredited PGY1 and PGY 2 residencies or PGY 1 and a fellowship OR
• Completion of an ASHP-accredited PGY1 residency, with at least two (2) years of recent experience as a clinical pharmacist OR
• Minimum of five (5) years experience as a pharmacist, with at least three (3) years of recent experience as a clinical pharmacist

In keeping with federal, state and local laws, Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) policy forbids employees and associates to discriminate against anyone based on race, religion, color, gender, age, marital status, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law.