Clinical Staff Pharmacist, Rotating Shift. Pharmacy

Shady Grove Medical Center

Shady Grove Medical Center seeks to hire an experienced Clinical Staff Pharmacist for our Pharmacy Department who will embrace our mission to extend God’s care through the ministry of physical, mental, and spiritual healing.

As a In Patient Clinical Staff Pharmacist, you will:

• Prepare and dispense medications.
• Utilize pharmacy support personnel.
• Provide in service education for physicians, nurses, and other practitioners
• Perform pharmacy functions to assure safe and effective medication delivery to the Nursing Department
• Design, recommend, monitor, and evaluate patient-specific pharmacotherapy.
• Help assure adherence to medication-use policies
• Participate in the formulary process.
• Comply with all accreditations, regulatory and safety requirements.
• Maximize work efficiency with use of technology.
• Respond to requests for drug information.
• Ensure continuity of pharmaceutical care.
• Participate in departmental performance improvement program.
• Maintain confidentiality of patient information.
• Participate in the process for assessing, managing and reporting medication errors.
• Manage time effectively.

• Strong customer service skills.
• Ability to handle multi-task environment and medical emergencies.
• Basic PC skills such as Microsoft Word and department specific software programs.
• Ability to communicate verbally in good English.
• Graduate of an accredited School of Pharmacy (BS/PharmD degree)
• Current Maryland Pharmacist license required
• Strongly Preferred:
  Minimum one year of hospital pharmacy practice
• Considered:
  Recent graduate w/ minimum 2 years hospital pharmacy technician/intern experience; or non-hospital pharmacist experience, with counseling and medication therapy management
• Supervisory/management experience not required but welcome
• Strongly Preferred: ASHP accredited PGY-1 Residency completion
• Strongly Preferred:
  Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) Certification
• Strongly Preferred:
  American Heart Association Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Certification
• Strongly Preferred:
  Member of American Society of Health-system Pharmacists (ASHP), and/or Maryland Society of Health-system Pharmacist (MSHP)

Employment Type:

Full-time

Hours per Week: 40 hrs/week

Typical Daily

Schedule:

e.g., 6am-2:30pm; 7am-3:30pm; 8am-4:30pm; 10am-6:30pm; 1:30pm-10pm; 2pm - 10:30pm Monday through Friday

Shift Type:
Rotating Day/Evening. Overnight as needed

Weekend Requirements: every third weekend rotation

Holiday Requirements:
Required Rotation/Follow company holiday calendar

On-Call:
No Shift Differential Eligible:
Yes

Pay Range: $55.88 - $83.82 If the salary range is listed as $0 or if the position is Per Diem (with a fixed rate), salary discussions will take place during the screening process.

Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), this position is classified as:
United States of America (Non-Exempt)

• Work life balance through nonrotating shifts
• Recognition and rewards for professional expertise
• Free Employee parking
• Medical, Prescription, Dental, and Vision coverage for employees and their eligible dependents effective on your date of hire
• Employer-paid Short & Long-Term Disability, Basic Life Insurance and AD&D, (short-term disability buy-up available)
• Paid Time Off
• Employer retirement contribution and match after 1-year of eligible employment with a 3-year vesting period
• Voluntary benefits include flexible spending accounts, legal plans, and life, pet, auto, home, long term care, and critical illness & accident insurance
• Subsidized childcare at participating childcare centers
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) support

As a faith-based organization, with over a century of caring for the communities in the Maryland area, Adventist Health Care has earned a reputation for high-quality, compassionate care. Adventist Health Care was the first and is the largest healthcare provider in Montgomery County.

Consider joining our team of over 6,000 employees and become part of one of the longest serving healthcare systems in the Washington, D.C., area that has a long-standing tradition as the largest provider of charity care and community benefit in Montgomery County.

Adventist Health Care strongly recommends all applicants to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 before commencing employment. Applicants may be required to furnish proof of vaccination.

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