Clinical Pharmacist Specialist

Critical Care & Antimicrobial Stewardship Area

Provides leadership for all Pharmacy clinical activities within assigned area. Embraces the goals/objectives encompassing Pharmaceutical activities. Promotes team efforts with pharmacy and non-pharmacy personnel to manage and achieve departmental/corporate objectives. Provides support for staff development so that staff meets/exceeds minimum competency standards and encourages/supports staff to continue professional development. Demonstrates good judgment and decisiveness throughout daily activities. Maintains knowledge of current pharmaceutical practice and demonstrates a personal commitment to professional growth. Serves as role model of clinical excellence to staff pharmacists. Supports management by providing oversight, guidance and support for all assigned areas. Participates in the planning, organization, implementation and follow up of new programs and activities. A key role of the Clinical Pharmacy Specialist is to promote safe, appropriate, and cost-effective medication therapy.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

In addition to clinical pharmacist activities:

1. Assists in controlling and maintaining the pharmacy drug budget by assuring appropriate medication formulary use.

2. Provides quality patient specific pharmaceutical care to patients, and documents such interventions with respect to clinical outcomes and financial ramifications.

3. Develops and oversees the, data collection and review of information gathered for drug utilization review and/or research, quality improvement monitors, adverse drug event reporting, restricted drug policies and other processes as established by the department and/or organizational committee.

4. Participates in direct patient care by providing drug information, interventions, and recommendations according to current evidence-based medication practices.

5. Assists in coordination, development and assessment of organizational quality improvement activities. Assists in meeting goals for core indicators relating to pharmacy practice.

6. Assists in decision-making process for formulary additions and deletions assuring processes are in place for safe administration, storage, distribution, preparation and use.

7. Participate in the development of processes to assure investigational drugs and or drug studies are safely controlled, administered and destroyed when applicable.

8. Participates the clinical development, training and education of students, pharmacists, residents.

9. Participates in the development and production of patient education programs, in-service lectures and seminars and continuing education programs for pharmacy, nurses, physicians and other healthcare practitioners related to medication therapy.

10. Participates in the review, detection and prevention of medication errors and adverse drug events.

11. Participates in organizational subcommittees or work groups.

12. Performs operational and clinical duties of a clinical pharmacist when necessary.

13. Performs other duties as assigned.

14. See addendums for specific specialty job requirements.

STANDARD QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

A. Education / Training:

· Pharm.D. or Bachelor degree in pharmacy (residency training preferred).

B. Work Experience:

· 3 years of experience as a clinical pharmacist or pharmacy residency/fellowship preferred. In absence of residency training, candidates with demonstrated superior knowledge (board certification, considerable practical clinical experience, etc.) in area of focus may be considered.

C. Certification, Licensure, Registration:

· Unrestricted Pharmacist and Controlled Substance License in good standing with the state of Michigan (or eligible to obtain such licensure).

D. Other Qualifications:

· The individual should have strong interpersonal and team building skills, problem solving, time management and organization skills, and have excellent verbal presentation and teaching skills.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

A. Physical Effort:

· Work requires extended walking throughout the Hospital, with medium to heavy lifting of up to 50 pounds, and pulling/pushing carts loaded with medications.

B. Work Environment:

· Work is performed in a normal Pharmacy environment with minimal noise. Exposed to patient care areas when delivering medication carts. Potential risk of an exposure to hazardous medications or waste materials of hazardous medications.

* Beaumont Health grants equal employment opportunity to all qualified persons without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, religion, genetic information, marital status, height, weight, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other legally protected category.