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Exemption Status:

Exempt

Hiring Range:

$91,312.00 - $164,361.60

Please note that the final offer may vary within this range based on a candidate’s experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity considerations.

Schedule Details:

Monday through Friday, Weekends (Saturday and Sunday)

Scheduled Hours:

3pm-11pm

Shift:

2 - Evening Shift, 8 Hours (United States of America)

Hours:

40

Cost Center:

25080 - 3800 Pharmacy

This position may have a signing bonus available a member of the Recruitment Team will confirm eligibility during the interview process.

Everyone Is a Caregiver

At UMass Memorial Health, everyone is a caregiver – regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care, academic excellence and leading-edge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts, and a place where we can help you build the career you deserve. We are more than 20,000 employees, working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients, community and each other. And everyone, in their own unique way, plays an important part, every day.

Under the general direction of the Director of Pharmacy Services, provides pharmaceutical care through integrated drug distribution, clinical services, and teaching, supervises supportive personnel, and assists the Director of Pharmacy Services in management responsibilities.

Major Responsibilities:

• Enhance the quality of medication use through antimicrobial stewardship. Work collaboratively with clinical pharmacists, medical staff, and other healthcare workers to promote, advise, and guide the development of successful local antimicrobial stewardship programs.
• Assist local staff in program assessments, antimicrobial utilization reviews, developing program structures and interventions, and identifying opportunities to optimize antimicrobial use. 
• Participate in the development, education, and communication of infectious disease-related protocols to improve antibiotic decision-support for Antibiotic Stewardship Community Network clinicians relating the selection, dose, duration, and monitoring of antimicrobials.
• Participate in the preparation of reports intended to document the impact of stewardship programs on quality, safety, and cost of antimicrobial use.

Position Qualifications:

License/Certification/Education:
Required:

• Current valid license to practice pharmacy in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
• BS Degree or Doctor of Pharmacy Degree from an AACP accredited college of Pharmacy.

Experience/Skills:
Preferred:

• Hospital pharmacy experience preferred (including unit dose and IV admixture including chemotherapy experience)
• OR equivalent combination of the above

Unless certification, licensure or registration is required, an equivalent combination of education and experience which provides proficiency in the areas of responsibility listed in this description may be substituted for the above requirements.

Major Responsibilities: 

The following key performance areas (Clinical, Operations/Distribution, Financial, Safety and Regulatory, Research and Education) are performed by the clinical pharmacist:

Clinical Performance
Provides medication management services in a collaborative manner that consist of the following:

• Review patient medication history, educate patients on drug therapy, establish desired outcomes, develop/modify therapeutic plans, determine alternatives for achieving outcomes, develop drug monitoring plans, monitor patient outcomes, document medication related issues in electronic health record, interpret laboratory data, review patient medication profiles, monitor pharmacokinetics of drug therapy, monitoring for potential adverse drug – drug, drug-lab, drug-disease state, and drug - food interactions.
• Maintains and updates a patient profile with demographics (e.g. height and weight), diagnosis, allergies, and current medications.
• Monitors drug therapy to evaluate appropriateness of use, dose, dosage form, regimen, route, ther