Infectious Disease Clinical Pharmacist – Sharp Tri-City Medical Center – Day Shift – Full Time

Hours:

Shift Start Time:

Shift End Time:

AWS Hours Requirement:

Additional Shift Information:

Weekend Requirements:

On-Call Required:

Hourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum):

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
The infectious Disease Clinical Pharmacist provides collaborative pharmaceutical care to hospital patients through the Antibiotic Stewardship Program with an Infectious Disease physician, faculty and house staff physicians, pharmacists, and clinical microbiology staff.

Required Qualifications

• Other Post Graduate Year 1 (PGY1) Residency
• 3 Years equivalent inpatient experience or PGY1.
• California Pharmacist License - CA State Board of Pharmacy -REQUIRED

Preferred Qualifications

• Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD)
• Other Post Graduate Year 2 (PGY2) Residency
• BPS Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist (BCPS) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties -PREFERRED

Other Qualification Requirements

• ACLS or PhART (Pharmacy Advanced Resuscitation Training). - REQUIRED

Essential Functions

• The position characteristics reflect the most important duties, responsibilities and competencies considered necessary to perform the essential functions of the job in a fully competent manner. They should not be considered as a detailed description of all the work requirements of the position. The characteristics of the position and standards of performance may be changed by TCMC with or without prior notice based on the needs of the organization.
  Maintains a safe, clean working environment, including unit based safety and infection control requirements.
  Provide cost-effective pharmaceutical care to patients receiving targeted antimicrobial therapy.
  Participate in selection of patients receiving targeted antimicrobials and monitor these patients on a daily basis.
  Discuss medication order changes/clarifications with the infectious disease physician or the prescriber, document any changes in patient and pharmacy records, and inform others of medication order changes.
  Monitor drug therapy to evaluate appropriateness of use, dose, dosage form, regimen, route, duration, therapeutic duplication, drug interactions.  Switch patients IV to PO therapy when appropriate.
  Provide pharmacokinetic consultations and clinical consultations as required.
  Detect, monitor, document and report adverse drug reactions and medications errors.
  Communicate with pharmacy to avoid waste in preparation of antimicrobials.
  Promote the use of the formulary, when possible, but coordinates procurement of non-formulary drugs when necessary.
  Educate medical and pharmacy staff about antimicrobials.
  Provide operational support to the pharmacy when needed.
  Develop and conduct target drug programs and drug usage evaluations as needed and report results to the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee.  Represent pharmacy on infection control committee.
  Document clinical consultations and cost avoidance as part of the justification for the position/service.
  Participate in appropriate departmental quality improvement and education initiatives.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Knowledge of infectious diseases, treatment and surveillance strategies.
• Ability to assist with cost saving initiatives and patient care optimization with respect to medications.

Sharp HealthCare is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability or any other protected class.

#FJ