Clinical Staff Pharmacist, Rotating Shift, Pharmacy

Shady Grove Medical Center

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The pharmacist is responsible for compounding and dispensing medications, evaluating patients for appropriate medication and dosing, providing medication education, responding to code emergencies and supervising pharmacy technicians in the preparation of medications. Serve on committees as determined by the Manager of Pharmacy Services. Accurately processes telephone calls and messages in a timely and pleasant manner. Actions and attitude that contributes to the critical success factors of the organization (i.e. Best place to work, Most extraordinary experience, Superior outcomes, Financial success for reinvestment, A growing organization vital to the community, and Valued as a faith-based organization).

Work Schedule:

Shady Grove Medical Center seeks to hire an experienced Pharmacist who will embrace our mission to extend God’s care through the ministry of physical, mental and spiritual healing.

As a Clinical Staff Pharmacist you will: 
• Prepare and dispense medications
• Utilize pharmacy support personnel
• Provide in service education for physicians, nurses, and other practitioners
• Perform pharmacy functions to assure safe and effective medication delivery to the Nursing Department
• Design, recommend, monitor, and evaluate patient-specific pharmacotherapy.
• Help assure adherence to medication-use policies
• Participate in the formulary process
• Comply with all accreditations, regulatory and safety requirements.
• Maximize work efficiency with use of technology
• Respond to requests for drug information
• Ensure continuity of pharmaceutical care
• Participate in departmental performance improvement program.
• Maintain confidentiality of patient information.
• Participate in the process for assessing, managing and reporting medication errors
•Manage time effectively

Qualified candidates will possess:
• Graduation from an ACPE accredited pharmacy school, with PharmD degree; alternatively, Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy with acute hospital/clinical experience, required.
• Strongly Preferred: Minimum one year of hospital pharmacy practice
• Considered: Recent graduate w/ minimum 2 years hospital pharmacy technician/intern experience; or non-hospital pharmacist experience, with counseling and medication therapy management
• Supervisory/management experience not required but welcome
• Strongly Preferred: Experience responding to Code Blue calls; ACLS certification/training 
• Strongly Preferred: Performing Clinical Skills: medication dosing (vancomycin, aminoglycosides), renal dosing adjustment, antimicrobial stewardship, anticoagulant (warfarin, heparin, DOAC) dosing
• Strongly Preferred: Specific experience with NICU, the Emergency Department, Critical Care/ICU
• Strongly Preferred: Interpersonal skills and comfort with communications with nurses and physicians
• Strongly Preferred: Knowledge and experience with IV compounding (USP 797 & 800), automation (Pyxis, carousel, etc)
• Strongly Preferred: Experience supervising pharmacy technicians

Pay Range:

$55.88 - $83.82

If the salary range is listed as $0 or if the position is Per Diem (with a fixed rate), salary discussions will take place during the screening process.

Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), this position is classified as:

United States of America (Non-Exempt)

At Adventist HealthCare our job is to care for you.

We do this by offering:

• Work life balance through nonrotating shifts

• Recognition and rewards for professional expertise

• Free Employee parking

• Medical, Prescription, Dental, and Vision coverage for employees and their eligible dependents effective on your date of hire

• Employer-paid Short & Long-Term Disability, Basic Life Insurance and AD&D, (short-term disability buy-up available)

• Paid Time Off

• Employer retirement contribution and match after 1-year of eligible employment with a 3-year vesting period 

• Voluntary benefits include flexible spending accounts, legal plans, and life, pet, auto, home, long term care, and critical illness & accident insurance

• Subsidized childcare at participating childcare centers

• Tuition Reimbursement

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) support

As a faith-based organization, with over a century of caring for the communities in the Maryland area, Adventist HealthCar