Team- Practice Educator, Pharmacy

Position: Team-Based Practice Educator, Pharmacy
* Teaching and supervising learners in the following tasks to support practice education:
* Using a comprehensive medication management approach to assess and develop care plans for ambulatory patients.
* Consulting, coordinating and referring to other team members, specialists or community organizations to support the patient and caregiver in multiple dimensions of their health and wellbeing.
* Documenting care, keeping medical records using the clinic’s electronic medical record keeping system.
* Working within their full scope and recognizing and addressing gaps in their knowledge to ensure safe, quality care.
* Observe learners providing patient care including direct observation in the room or through video camera.

Note:

this is not for every patient encounter.
* Role model person-centred care for learners by empowering patients and caregivers as experts in their own lives, prioritizing patient agency and advocating for patients and caregivers as equal team members and partners in care and education. Actively involve patients in clinical teaching and student learning (e.g. giving feedback to students on communication skills).
* Provide student support, mentorship and training to learners from across the health professions. This may include providing feedback and preparing evaluations to learners regarding their patient care.
* Provide service to the University by participation in faculty and university level committees to advance collaborative health education and team-based care
* In consultation with Associate Dean, Practice Innovation and Associate Dean Academic, will provide additional interprofessional teaching based on Faculty need (e.g. involvement in the integrated health curriculum teaching)
* Use data and research insights to devise and propose meaningful changes for ongoing improvement of clinical teaching, learning and interprofessional practice and education
* Work cohesively in a team environment, including the ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with a large group of faculty, staff, students, patients, caregivers, other individuals within a patient’s support network, and partner organizations in care, education and research.
* Learn, adapt and utilize health and learning technologies (e.g. electronic health record, artificial intelligence) effectively in a rapidly changing health system and health professions education program.
* When required due to learner availability and capacity, provide continuity of pharmaceutical care within an interdisciplinary team setting to facilitate innovation in team-based education and care
* Demonstrate a commitment to enhancing one’s own awareness, knowledge, and skills related to equity, diversity, inclusion, and trauma-informed care.
* Possess a willingness to respect diverse perspectives, including perspectives in conflict with one’s own.
* Demonstrate a strong foundation in key program concepts such as person-centred, team-based care, interprofessional education, shared decision-making and continuous quality improvement or approaches for integrating knowledge into practice.
* Demonstrate a commitment to cultural humility and lifelong learning by continuing to develop the technical, relational and professional skills needed now and, in the future, to provide a culturally safe environment that support a diverse range learners and patients.
* Demonstrate the ability to work in an educational environment supporting and enabling the success of learners (e.g. health professional students).
* Demonstrate knowledge of Pharma Care policies and procedures, common drug products (dosage forms, costs, availability), and common nonprescription and natural health products is desired.
* Demonstrate knowledge of the determinants of health and health promotion and chronic disease management principles and practices.
* Demonstrate knowledge of the standards of practice and guidelines for clinical practitioners established by the College of Pharmacists of BC.
* Demonstrate experience and interest in pursuing evaluation and research to advance collaborative health education and practice improvement.
* Demonstrate ability to collaborate effectively, both…