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Northern Light Health

Department: Pharmacy - EMMC

Position is located: Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center

Work Type: Full Time

Hours Per Week: 40.00

Work Schedule: 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM

Summary :

The Northern Light Health Clinical Pharmacy Specialist serves as a clinical expert, leader, and role-model in their specialty area. They will assure high quality, and efficiency healthcare is provided to all patients through direct patient care, quality improvement and medication safety work, and the development of other pharmacy staff. A clinical specialist is a highly motivated and self-directed clinical team member who bring fresh perspective to advancing quality care. The clinical specialist must also be able to fulfill the duties and work responsibilities of the Clinical Generalist Pharmacist.

Responsibilities :

+ Clinical care (order processing, rounding, patient education, transitions of care coordination, protocol execution, consults, on-call, staffing coverage, etc).

+ Quality Improvement project and safety work.

+ Committee work (policy creation, guideline development, and maintenance of standard operating procedures, formulary management proposals).

+ Pharmacy Residency management and education.

+ Staff Development (Presentations, direct mentoring, educational activities).

+ Student education and development.

+ Other Duties (multi-disciplinary in services, operational project work, research, liaison with external departments, and others as assigned).

Other Information :

+ Pharmacy Board Certification in appropriate specialty obtained within two years of hire into the specialist role.

Competencies and Skills

+ Achieves Results: Sets high standards for their own outcomes and seizes opportunities to engage others towards objectives. Consistently moves forward with direct actions in order to attain or exceed objectives. Manages their own time effectively to accomplish assigned tasks. Successfully prioritizes multiple projects and duties as needed.

+ Spreadsheet application with the ability to use calculations, formulas, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming.

+ Word processing, spreadsheets, data entry, database experience and other computer related skills.

+ Email application with the ability to manage email as well as calendars, managing tasks and contacts, note taking, journaling, and web browsing.

+ Presentation software with the ability to create presentations with the ability to incorporate animation, audio, video, time delays, as well as designing themes and variants with animations and effects.

+ Word process application with the ability to create and edit documents, format, use tables, apply footnoting, create table of contents and mail merge techniques.

+ Provides Patient-Centered Care: Demonstrates understanding of patient care quality and service as organizational priority. Proactively supports change to improve patient experience and results. Exhibits the ability and willingness to find out what the patient wants and needs and to act accordingly, taking the organizational and outside resources into account. Cooperates, collaborates, communicates, and integrates care within and between teams to ensure that care is continuous and reliable.

+ Public Speaking

+ Seeks Process Improvement & Applies System Thinking: Possesses and gains insight into situations, problems and processes. Understands the interconnection between organizational elements. Deconstructs problems and systematically investigates the various components. Considers the impact of actions on the entire process/system. Detects problems and opportunities, recognizes important information, and links various data to trace potential causes and relevant details.

+ Behaves with Integrity and Builds Trust: Acts consistently in line with the core values, commitments and rules of conduct. Leads by example and tells the truth. Does what they say they will, when and how they say they will, or communicates an alternate plan.

+ Cultivates Respect: Treats others fairly, embraces and values differences, and contributes to a culture of belonging, empowerment, and cooperation.

+ Fosters Accountability: Creates and participates in a work environment where people hold themselves and others accountable for processes, results and behaviors. Takes appropriate ownership not only of successes but also mistakes and works to correct them in a timely manner. Demonstrates understanding that we all work as a team and the quality and timeliness of work impacts everyone involved.

+ Practices Compassion: Exhibits genuine care for people and is available and ready to help; displays a deep awareness of and strong willingness to relieve the suffering of others.

Credentials

+ Required Registered Pharmacist

Education

+ Required Doctoral Degree In lieu of education, two years of experience is required per year of required education, exclusive of the minimum experience identified above. If no PGY-1 Residency, then four years of clinical experience.

Required Experience

+ 1 year/years of Clinical Experience

Working Conditions

+ Lifting, moving and loading less than 20 pounds.

+ Prolonged periods of sitting.

+ Potential exposure to diseases or infections.

+ Potential exposure to hazardous materials.

Brewer, Maine, Corporate Office, Cianchette, Foundation, Finance, Human Resources, Legal Services

Position Pharmacist-Clinical Spec- IPLocation Req ID 84738