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Introduction

Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized. Submit your application for the opportunity below:Advanced Clinical PharmacistHCA Florida Osceola Hospital

Benefits

HCA Florida Osceola Hospital offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

+ Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.

+ Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.

+ Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing

+ 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)

+ Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock

+ Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.

+ Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more

+ Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts

+ Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships

+ Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)

+ Colleague recognition program

+ Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)

+ Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.

Learn more about Employee Benefits (https://careers.hcahealthcare.com/pages/employee-benefits-and-rewards)

_Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location._

We are seeking an Advanced Clinical Pharmacist for our team to ensure that we continue to provide all patients with high quality, efficient care. Did you get into our industry for these reasons? We are an amazing team that works hard to support each other and are seeking a phenomenal addition like you who feels patient care is as meaningful as we do. We want you to apply!

Job Summary and Qualifications

Responsible for developing and coordinating initiatives directed at improving and assuring the safe use of medications within the organization. This includes developing and maintaining productive working relationships and providing support to other disciplines on which safe medication use is dependent, standardizing medication management practices, ensuring regulatory compliance, implementing national quality agenda related to medication management, medication safety programs, and staff development/education.

Medication Use Safety

+ Develops a strategic plan to improve the safety of the medication-use system.

+ Assesses the medication management system for risk points and identifies strategies to improve safety.

+ Conducts at least one FMEA annually.

+ Coordinates the reporting and analysis of adverse drug reactions.

+ Coordinates the reporting and analysis of medication errors.

+ Develops policy and procedures that promote safe medication use practices.

+ Participates in the development, implementation, and maintenance of medication-use safety initiatives.

+ Effectively uses the appropriate analytic tools and process improvement techniques to assess and improve medication-use processes.

+ Coordinates with organizational leaders to assure that medication-use processes are conducted in a safe physical environment.

+ Coordinates the development and implementation of strategies to eliminate or minimize medication errors.

+ Assesses and reports medication use safety improvement activities to leadership and appropriate committees.

+ Ensures appropriate and safe use of medication-related automation including smart pumps, order entry systems, and automated dispensing machines.

+ Assesses published literature to identify best practices and/or guidelines relevant to medication-use safety and opportunities for reducing medication errors.

Performance Improvement

+ Chairs Drug Safety Team and submits report of medication safety activities to the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee

+ Chairs Medication Error Team and submits report of medication safety activities to the Drug Safety Team, Patient Safety Team, and Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee

+ Maintains a performance improvement program that improves medication safety throughout the organization

Regulatory Compliance

+ Complies with federal, state, and local regulations and accreditation standards relating to medication- use safety.

+ Assesses and reports compliance with Medication Management accreditation standards.

+ Develops policy and procedures to meet regulatory compliance standards.

+ Reviews controlled substance waste and return records and reconciles discrepancies.

+ Assesses and documents compliance with corporate controlled substance monitoring requirements.

+ Monitors for controlled substance theft or diversion, assists with investigations and reporting requirements.

Education and Training

+ Manages pharmacy staff development, competency and training in collaboration with the Pharmacy Clinical Coordinator and Pharmacy Supervisors.

+ Provides medication-use safety education to pharmacy staff, healthcare providers and other appropriate staff.

+ Provides orientation and training to new staff members.

+ Provides regulatory or accreditation compliance education to healthcare providers and other appropriate staff.

+ Provides education and training to pharmacy students.

Additional Duties

+ Performs pharmacist duties when needed.

+ Demonstrates the ability to create, initiate, and integrate new concepts and practices to improve patient care and/or employee satisfaction.

+ Develops creative solutions that address departmental or organizational needs.

+ Behaves appropriately and works cooperatively with others to achieve departmental goals.

+ Responds to conflict discretely and appropriately.

+ Accept and supports change and new ideas.

+ Consistently puts the team's success ahead of personal recognition.

+ Performs work within specified time frames.

+ Performs work completely with attention to detail.

+ Attends staff meetings and participates in other programs, committees, meetings, and functions required by the hospital or pharmacy.

+ Assumes authority, accountability and responsibility for the formal and informal direction of others.

+ Performs other related functions as assigned.

What qualifications you will need:

+ Doctor of Pharmacy or Master’s degree required. Pharmacy residency training or BCPS certification preferred

+ Registered pharmacist licensed in the State of Florida required

+ 3 years or equivalent health-system experience in a patient care related field required

+ Pharmacy management or supervisory experience preferred

+ Previous patient safety work or pharmaceutical redesign work preferred

+ Experience in project management and patient safety initiatives preferred

+ Presentation, research and publishing experience preferred

HCA Florida Osceola Hospital is a 404-bed tertiary care hospital. We are accredited by the Joint Commission and are a Level II Trauma Center. We are a teaching hospital in collaboration with UCF College of Medicine. Our hospital is conveniently and centrally located in the Heart of Kissimmee. We are only minutes from Orlando, St. Cloud, Celebration, and Poinciana. We are committed to enhancing the standard of healthcare by providing services including Emergency Care, Trauma Care, Pediatric ER, Heart & Vascular Institute, and Comprehensive Stroke Center. Other services include The Baby Suites Maternity Care, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Level II, Women’s Services, Behavioral Health, Orthopedics & Spine, and a Graduate Medical Education Program. We expand our care to the community with our freestanding Emergency Department at Hunter’s Creek ER.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.

HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our Advanced Clinical Pharmacist opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. **We are interviewing - apply today!**

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.