Job Summary
Improves patient's quality of life by providing comprehensive clinical services to patients in area of expertise to ensure optimal medication use and effective resource management, while considering pharmacoeconomic principles across the healthcare system. Works in collaboration with health care team members to accomplish goals. Performs other duties as assigned.
Responsibilities
- Manages own pharmacy practice effectively.
- Contributes to goals, programs and report cards for unit/department/hospital.
- Participates in pharmacotherapeutic plan processes.
- Participates actively on inter and intra-departmental committees.
- Supervises and directs healthcare team members.
- Provides education.
- Provides drug information.
- Participates in projects and studies to enhance professional knowledge and patient care.
- Manages medication orders including age-specific considerations to ensure medications safety (i.e. processing, preparation and dispensing).
- Processes and prepares sterile products for dispensing.
- Completes assigned goals.
Specifications
Experience
Minimum Required
Preferred/Desired
Education
Minimum Required
- Bachelor of Science (B.S.) or Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.).
Preferred/Desired
- Post-graduate education in health-system pharmacy services.
Training
Minimum Required
- PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency and/or equivalent clinical experience of three years.
Preferred/Desired
- PGY-2 Pharmacy Residency and/or Pharmacy Board Certification, BLS and ACLS certifications and/or equivalent experience of greater than three years.
Special Skills
- Computer literacy, interpersonal skills, general clinical awareness
Minimum Required
- Advanced communication skills and computer skills, including Microsoft Office applications. High-level cognitive ability to interpret and assess written medication orders to ensure optimal medication use. Teaching skills and qualified to precept residents, students, interns and externs.
Preferred/Desired
- Membership with state and/or national hospital pharmacy associations.
Licensure
- Current, active, unrestricted pharmacy licensure for appropriate state or eligibility for licensure. Must acquire licensure within 120 days of hire date.
Minimum Required
- PHARMACIST-FOR APPROPRIATE STATE
Preferred/Desired
Skills Required
- Bachelor of Science (B.S.) or Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.)
- PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency and/or equivalent clinical experience of three years
- Current, active, unrestricted pharmacy licensure for the appropriate state or eligibility to obtain licensure within 120 days of hire
- Advanced communication skills and computer skills, including Microsoft Office; teaching skills and qualified to precept residents, students, interns and externs
- Ability to process and prepare sterile products for dispensing (sterile compounding experience)
- Post-graduate education in health-system pharmacy services
- PGY-2 Pharmacy Residency and/or Pharmacy Board Certification, BLS and ACLS certifications and/or equivalent experience greater than three years
- Membership with state and/or national hospital pharmacy associations
What We Do
Baptist Memorial Health Care is one of the country’s largest not-for-profit health care systems and the largest provider of Medicaid in the region. Baptist offers a full continuum of care to communities throughout the Mid-South and consistently ranks among the top integrated health care networks in the country. The health care system comprises 24 affiliate hospitals in West Tennessee, Mississippi and East Arkansas; more than 5,400 affiliated physicians; Baptist Medical Group, a multispecialty physician group with more than 900 providers; home, hospice and psychiatric care; minor medical centers and clinics; a network of surgery, rehabilitation and other outpatient centers; and an education system highlighted by Baptist Health Sciences University (formerly Baptist College of Health Sciences). Baptist employs more than 21,000 people, and in fiscal year 2022 contributed more than $455 million in community benefit and uncompensated care to the communities it serves. For more information, please visit www.baptistonline.org or follow us on Facebook or Instagram.
