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Seeking a Clinical Pharmacist Specialist to design and implement the UPMC POSITIVE Program: Prolonged length of stay in patents with IV antimicrobials or extenuating infectious circumstances. This pharmacist will work with local and system antimicrobial stewardship pharmacists to provide care for patients with infectious diseases. They will leverage Epic electronic health record for patient tracking, monitoring, and reporting. They will also collaborate with microbiology labs, care management and discharge planning, physician groups, and other relevant care teams for comprehensive patient management (inpatient and outpatient).

Clinical Pharmacist Specialists are responsible and accountable for the provision of safe, effective, and efficient comprehensive medication management for specialized patient populations. Clinical Pharmacist Specialists provide direct patient-centered care and integrated pharmacy services in a clinical practice setting with physicians, nurses, and other members of the care team. These clinicians are aligned with interdisciplinary programs and services to ensure clinical pharmacy is appropriately integrated in the care process. Clinical Pharmacist Specialists serve as departmental resources and liaisons to other departments, health care team members, or external groups. They also conduct clinical research and practice advancement projects in their area of expertise as well as support and/or lead patient care quality and regulatory compliance initiatives designed to improve medication-use processes or pharmacy practice. Clinical Pharmacist Specialists may serve as preceptors for pharmacy students and pharmacy residents including PGY2 residents.

This position will work a hybrid work setting with work from home capability; travel to local hospitals is expected intermittently. This role will work standard daylight business hours, Monday through Friday. The position has an opportunity to be work out of Harrisburg or Pittsburgh.

If you are ready to expand your pharmacy experience, look no further and apply today!

Responsibilities:

+ Leads assigned patient service lines, clinical areas, and therapeutic programs

+ Facilitates pharmaceutical care services, direct patient care programs, medication utilization systems within assigned services and care areas to assure drug utilization activities are aligned with patient care needs, evidence-based best practices, and regulatory standards

+ Designs and implements stewardship activities and restriction/surveillance programs

+ Tracks and evaluates assigned pharmacy programs for operational, quality, and financial efficiency and routinely benchmarks against local and national best practices

+ Actively identifies practice related issues which require evaluation and facilitate clinical research projects, quality improvement initiatives, or healthcare provider education as needed to advance practice

+ Delivers direct patient care and clinical practice, including decentralized and service-based programs

+ Works as an active member of multidisciplinary team and collaborates with healthcare providers within decentralized patient care areas to provide patient-centered care

+ Identifies high-risk patients and implements interventions to improve quality and safety

+ Makes appropriate evidence-based, patient-centered medication recommendations

+ Completes critical patient monitoring and reviews patient profile/chart to identify, prevent, or mitigate drug-related problems, improper drug or dose selection, sub therapeutic dosage, over dosage, adverse drug reactions, drug interactions, failure to receive drugs, untreated indications, medication use without an indication, and treatment failures.

+ Communicates effectively and appropriately with healthcare providers and caregivers (physicians, nurses, etc.) and assures continuity of pharmaceutical care between shifts and among staff o Actively participates in stewardship activities and restricted medication programs

+ Facilitates experiential education and practice advancement

+ Maintains proficiency in preceptor roles and actively emulates education/mentorship skills

+ Develops student, resident, and staff training experiences/competencies and creates new relationships for teaching and training opportunities

+ Identifies, designs, and implements improvements in the medication-use system to advance patient safety, maximize therapeutic outcomes, or control costs

+ Graduate of an ACPE accredited College of Pharmacy

+ B.S. degree in Pharmacy or Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree; PharmD preferred

+ BCIDP or BCPS credentials preferred

Required:

+ Current licensure as a pharmacist in practicing state

+ Completion of ASHP accredited PGY-2 Pharmacy Residency OR PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency plus three years clinical pharmacy experience in a specialized area OR six years clinical pharmacy experience in a specialized area.

+ Specialized knowledge and expertise in advanced pharmacy practice and service, comprehensive medication management, and evidence-based medicine in specialized area appropriate for clinical assignments

+ BPS Board Certification preferred**Currently BPS recognizes fourteen specialties: ambulatory care pharmacy, cardiology pharmacy, compounded sterile preparations pharmacy, critical care pharmacy, emergency medicine pharmacy, geriatric pharmacy, infectious diseases pharmacy, nuclear pharmacy, nutrition support pharmacy, oncology pharmacy, pediatric pharmacy, pharmacotherapy, psychiatric pharmacy and solid organ transplantation pharmacy

Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:

+ Pharmacist

UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran