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Join the UPMC Corporate Quality team as a Clinical Pharmacist, based at UPMC Children’s Hospital. This full-time position is primarily onsite, with some flexibility for remote work, running Monday through Friday during regular daytime hours. You’ll play a key role in managing medications for pediatric patients, ensuring safety and effectiveness. As part of the care team, you’ll collaborate with doctors, nurses, and other professionals to deliver personalized, patient-centered care. You’ll also contribute to clinical research, mentor pharmacy students, and help improve pharmacy practices across the hospital.

Candidates with experience in ambulatory or pediatric pharmacy are especially encouraged to apply.

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.

+ Assures pharmacy is an integral part of the health-care delivery system and facilitates enhancement and expansion of pharmacy services/programs. 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 o Identifies high-risk patients and implements interventions to improve quality and safety.

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

+ Provides discharge medication review, reconciliation, and counseling as appropriate.

+ Maintains proficiency in hospital computer systems and medication ordering systems.

+ Provides accurate, safe, timely, and appropriate medication therapy based on patient age and needs.

+ 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

+ Actively participates in stewardship activities and restricted medication programs.

+ Facilitates experiential education and practice advancement.

+ 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 Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree; PharmD preferred.

Required:

+ Current licensure as a pharmacist in practicing state

+ Completion of ASHP accredited PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency or 3 years clinical pharmacy experience

+ 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.

Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:

+ Pharmacist license

+ Act 31

+ Act 33

+ Act 34

+ Act 73

UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran