Behavioral Health Pharmacist Specialist - Sharp Grossmont Hospital - Variable Shift - Full Time

Hours:

Shift Start Time:

8 AM

Shift End Time:

4:30 PM

AWS Hours Requirement:

8/40 - 8 Hour Shift

Additional Shift Information:

Weekend Requirements:

No Weekends

On-Call Required:

No

Hourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum):

$77.910 - $100.530 - $112.590

 

The stated pay scale reflects the range that Sharp reasonably expects to pay for this position.  The actual pay rate and pay grade for this position will be dependent on a variety of factors, including an applicant’s years of experience, unique skills and abilities, education, alignment with similar internal candidates, marketplace factors, other requirements for the position, and employer business practices. 

 

What You Will Do
To provide the professional, clinical and technical knowledge, and skills and expertise required for the provision of comprehensive pharmaceutical care that supports the mission, values and philosophy of Pharmacy Services and Sharp HealthCare.

Required Qualifications

• Other : Education pursuant to licensure requirements.
• 1 Year Postdoctoral experience in a hospital pharmacy environment.
• AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association -REQUIRED
• California Pharmacist License - CA State Board of Pharmacy -REQUIRED
• BPS Board Certified Psychiatric Pharmacist (BCPP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties -REQUIRED

Preferred Qualifications

• Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD)
• Completed a PGY-1 Acute Care Residency.
• Completed a PGY-2 Psychiatric Care Residency.

Other Qualification Requirements

• Mental Health First Aid Certification - Preferred

Essential Functions

• Clinical advisory services
  Demonstrates pro-active involvement with advisory service activities and displays follow-through and contribution to advisory service outcomes as evidenced by (including but not limited to): (e.g. Renal Target Monitoring, Antibiotic Surveillance Team, Medication Usage Evaluations and other programs or initiatives specific to the entity).
  Qualitative participation in clinical intervention program through consistent issue identification, provision of reliable best practice/literature based recommendations, follow-through with prescribers and other clinicians.
  Quantitative work, measured by the completion and submission of electronic forms consistent with the average established for each pharmacy department/shift.
  Consistently responds to and documents drug information requests promptly and professionally.
  Participates in ongoing data collection for MUE.
  Reviews patient medication profiles for appropriateness of drug therapy, therapeutic duplications, allergies, weight, height, minimum and maximum dosing guidelines, age specific requirements, renal and hepatic function, drug interactions and other pertinent factors to individualize patients' medication dosing requirements within boundaries approved by committees.
  Identifies, resolves and documents prescribing, formulary and therapeutic issues through integration of patient variables, clinical status, drug knowledge, and professional judgment.
  Communicates with nurses and physicians in a timely manner about therapeutic issues or problems.
  Follows up on formulary compliance issues and/or communicates issues to management.
  Participates in Code-Blue emergencies as required, mixes and labels medications as needed, and provides information; Assures that pharmacy code-blue billing is completed where appropriate and restocks medications.
  Consistently participating in financial pillar/cost savings measures (e.g. IV to PO conversions, ER/XL to IR adjustments as indicated, formulary adherence, etc).
  Assists and oversees medication shortages in the BH arena.
• Clinical Consult services
  Certification/Recertification, Participation, Knowledge: Demonstrates competency in performing formal clinical consults, and patient monitoring practices as approved by the P&T Committee:
  Has met minimum certification/recertification requirements as outlined in the Pharmacy Certification Process for Formal pharmacotherapy Consult and Advisory Services policy and procedure for consult services offered at entity.
  Participates in Clinical Consult Services for example, Pharmacokinetics, Heparin, Pain Management, and other services specific to the entity.
  Demonstrates knowledge of consult services as evidenced by attainment of consult service goals and proper documentation of actions, recommendations, and patient outcomes on the pharmacy monitoring forms.
  Performs by leaving concise, objective, legible, an