Pharmacist, Harrington Hospital, Per Diem

Exemption Status:
Non-Exempt

Hiring Range: $43.90 - $79.02

Please note that the final offer may vary within this range based on a candidate's experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity considerations.

Schedule Details:
Monday through Friday, Weekends (Saturday and Sunday)

Scheduled

Hours:

variable, no overnights

Shift: 1 - Day Shift, 8 Hours (United States of America)

Hours:

0

Cost Center: 25080 - 3800 Pharmacy

This position may have a signing bonus available a member of the Recruitment Team will confirm eligibility during the interview process.

At UMass Memorial Health, everyone is a caregiver - regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care, academic excellence and leading-edge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts, and a place where we can help you build the career you deserve. We are more than 20,000 employees, working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients, community and each other.

And everyone, in their own unique way, plays an important part, every day.

• Enhance the quality of medication use through antimicrobial stewardship. Work collaboratively with clinical pharmacists, medical staff, and other healthcare workers to promote, advise, and guide the development of successful local antimicrobial stewardship programs.
• Assist local staff in program assessments, antimicrobial utilization reviews, developing program structures and interventions, and identifying opportunities to optimize antimicrobial use.
• Participate in the development, education, and communication of infectious disease-related protocols to improve antibiotic decision-support for Antibiotic Stewardship Community Network clinicians relating the selection, dose, duration, and monitoring of antimicrobials.
• Participate in the preparation of reports intended to document the impact of stewardship programs on quality, safety, and cost of antimicrobial use.

• Complies with established departmental policies, procedures and objectives.
• Attends variety of meetings, conferences, seminars as required or directed.
• Demonstrates use of Quality Improvement in daily operations.
• Complies with all health and safety regulations and requirements.
• Respects diverse views and approaches, demonstrates Standards of Respect, and contributes to creating and maintaining an environment of professionalism, tolerance, civility and acceptance toward all employees, patients and visitors.
• Maintains, regular, reliable, and predictable attendance.
• Performs other similar and related duties as required or directed.

All responsibilities are essential job functions.

• Current valid license to practice pharmacy in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
• BS Degree or Doctor of Pharmacy Degree from an AACP accredited college of Pharmacy

• Hospital pharmacy experience preferred (including unit dose and IV admixture including chemotherapy experience)
• OR equivalent combination of the above

Unless certification, licensure or registration is required, an equivalent combination of education and experience which provides proficiency in the areas of responsibility listed in this description may be substituted for the above requirements.

Department-specific competencies and their measurements will be developed and maintained in the individual departments. The competencies will be maintained and attached to the departmental job description. Responsible managers will review competencies with position incumbents.

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