Clinical Pharmacist Specialist-Critical Care - Sharp Memorial Hospital - Day Shift

Hours

Shift Start Time:
Variable

Shift End Time:
Variable

AWS Hours Requirement: 8/40 - 8 Hour Shift

Weekend Requirements:
As Needed

On-Call

Required:

No

Hourly Pay Range (Minimum
- Midpoint
- Maximum): $77,910 - $100,530 - $112,590

The stated pay scale reflects the range that Sharp reasonably expects to pay for this position. The actual pay rate and pay grade for this position will be dependent on a variety of factors, including an applicant’s years of experience, unique skills and abilities, education, alignment with similar internal candidates, marketplace factors, other requirements for the position, and employer business practices.

To provide the professional, clinical and technical knowledge, and skills and expertise required for the provision of comprehensive pharmaceutical care that supports the mission, values and philosophy of Pharmacy Services and Sharp Health Care.

• California Pharmacist License - CA State Board of Pharmacy - REQUIRED
• AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association - REQUIRED
• ACLS Certification (Advanced Cardiac Life Support) - American Heart Association - REQUIRED

• Completed a Pharmacy Practice Residency with experience in critical care or a specialized clinical residency in critical care/emergency care.
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) - American Heart Association - PREFERRED
• BPS Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist (BCPS) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties - PREFERRED

• Current license to practice pharmacy in the state of California without restriction or probation.

• Clinical advisory services
  Demonstrates pro‑active involvement with advisory service activities and displays follow‑through and contribution to advisory service outcomes as evidenced by (including but not limited to): (e.g. Renal Target Monitoring, Antibiotic Surveillance Team, Medication Usage Evaluations and other programs or initiatives specific to the entity).
  Qualitative participation in clinical intervention program through consistent issue identification, provision of reliable best practice/literature based recommendations, follow‑through with prescribing and other clinicians.
  Quantitative work, measured by the completion and submission of electronic forms consistent with the average established for each pharmacy department/shift.
  Consistently responds to and documents drug information requests promptly and professionally.
  Participates in ongoing data collection for MUE.
  Demonstrates knowledge and competency of chemotherapy dosing, monitoring, and established guidelines.
  Reviews patient medication profiles for appropriateness of drug therapy, therapeutic duplications, allergies, weight, height, minimum and maximum dosing guidelines, age specific requirements, renal and hepatic function, drug interactions and other pertinent factors to individualize patients’ medication dosing requirements within boundaries approved by P&T/T&S committees.
  Identifies, resolves and documents prescribing, formulary and therapeutic issues through integration of patient variables, clinical status, drug knowledge, and professional judgment.
  Communicates with nurses and physicians in a timely manner about therapeutic issues or problems.
  Follows up on formulary compliance issues and/or communicates issues to management.
  Participates in Code‑Blue emergencies as required, mixes and labels medications as needed, and provides information;
  Assures that pharmacy code‑blue billing is completed where appropriate and restocks medications.
  Consistently participating in financial pillar/cost savings measures (e.g. IV to PO conversions, formulary adherence, etc.).
• Clinical consult services
  Certification/Recertification, Participation, Knowledge:
  Demonstrates competency in performing formal clinical consults, and patient monitoring practices as approved by the P&T (T&S) Committee(s).
  Has met minimum certification/recertification requirements as outlined in the Pharmacy Certification Process For Formal pharmacotherapy Consult and Advisory Services policy and procedure for consult services…