Summary
Job Description:
Job Title: Clinical Staff Pharmacist
Full Time - 1st Shift
Clinical Staff Pharmacists are responsible and accountable for the provision of safe, effective, and prompt medication therapy. Through various assignments within the department, they provide support of centralized and decentralized medication use systems as well as deliver optimal medication therapy to patients with a broad range of disease states. All pharmacists are responsible for drug preparation and distribution for medications; evaluating, inputting and verification of medication orders; assisting providers and other health care professionals by serving as a drug information resource; monitoring and managing medication regimens per protocol or per consult; and managing pharmacy inventory.
Job Descriptions:
The following is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this job by listing the major components for this position (i.e., key responsibilities and essential duties). The list is not intended to be an all-exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities required and are subject to change from time to time. Additionally, other duties may be assigned at the discretion of leadership to meet business, customer, and/or patient needs:
- Has a working knowledge of pharmacy operations including pharmacy operating system, use of patient records, purchasing, inventory and formulary management, automation, packaging, USP 797, USP 795, USP 800, and pharmaceutical waste.
- Initiates, documents, and participates in department activities that promote positive patient outcomes.
- Serves as a drug information expert and resource regarding medication management.
- Provides comprehensive decentralized or pharmacy clinical services including, but not limited to, anticoagulation management/monitoring, pharmacokinetic dosing, renal dosing, and nutritional support services.
- Participates in antimicrobial stewardship and opioid stewardship.
- Provides medication counseling to patients.
- Works with inter-professional patient care teams to help patients with transitions to care, including but not limited to helping prepare patients for discharge.
- Serves as an active member of the inter-professional team on patient care units. Participates in unit-based huddles and activities if available. Knowledgeable in unit’s metrics, goals, and works with staff on unit to help achieve goals
- Medication Management and Review
- Supervisory and Production Duties
- Compliance and Regulation
Requirements:
- Graduate of an accredited college or university with Pharmacy degree.
- Licensed Pharmacist with the Kentucky State Board of Pharmacy in good standing.
- Pharm.D. or relevant clinical hospital pharmacy experience is desirable.
- Must provide documentation of state licensure and CE as required by the state of KY.
- Maintain BLS & ACLS certifications
- Advanced clinical training or PGY1 residency preferred
Benefits: Full-Time 32 weekly hours (0.8 FTE) - 40 weekly hours (1.0 FTE)
- Health, Vision, Dental and Pet Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Short Term and Long-Term Disability and Life Insurance
- Identity Theft Protection
- Tuition Reimbursement up to $6,000 annually
- Company paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
- 5 days of Paid Time Off available upon hire
- Bereavement Leave (includes pets)
- PTO Sell Back Program
- Compassionate Leave Sharing Program (PTO Donation)
- Employee Support Fund, for employees in need of emergency financial support
- Retirement with Company Match
Work Experience
Education
If you would like to be part of a growing family focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork and innovation, we urge you to apply now! Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.Skills Required
- Graduate of an accredited college or university with Pharmacy degree.
- Licensed Pharmacist with the Kentucky State Board of Pharmacy in good standing.
- Provide documentation of state licensure and continuing education as required by the state of KY.
- Maintain BLS and ACLS certifications.
- Pharm.D. or relevant clinical hospital pharmacy experience.
- Advanced clinical training or PGY1 residency.
What We Do
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians. Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
