Clinical Pharmacist Specialist-Internal Medicine

2 months ago

Harrisburg PA United States UPMC - Pittsburgh Medical Center Full time
Job Description

Clinical Pharmacist Specialists work as part of a patient care team, focusing on safe and effective medication management for specialized patient populations. They provide direct patient-centered care, collaborate with interdisciplinary teams, and ensure clinical pharmacy services are integrated into the care process. Their responsibilities include assessing patient needs, adjusting drug therapy, and preventing medication adverse events. Additionally, they conduct research, support quality initiatives, and provide education and training.

Eligible candidates will be offered a sign-on bonus of up to $10,000 based on their years of experience

Responsibilities:

  • Leads assigned patient service lines, clinical areas, and therapeutic programs
  •  Facilitates pharmaceutical care services, direct patient care programs, medication utilization systems within assigned services and care areas to assure drug utilization activities are aligned with patient care needs, evidence-based best practices, and regulatory standards
  • Designs and implements stewardship activities and restriction/surveillance programs
  • Tracks and evaluates assigned pharmacy programs for operational, quality, and financial efficiency and routinely benchmarks against local and national best practices
  • Actively identifies practice related issues which require evaluation and facilitate clinical research projects, quality improvement initiatives, or healthcare provider education as needed to advance practice
  • Develops and oversees policies and procedures for drug purchasing, drug usage, drug distribution, and drug control
  • Assures pharmacy is an integral part of the health-care delivery system and facilitates enhancement and expansion of pharmacy services/programs
  • Delivers direct patient care and clinical practice, including decentralized and service-based programs
  • Maintains proficiency in decentralized pharmacy services and clinical pharmacy programs

  • Works as an active member of multidisciplinary team and collaborates with healthcare providers within decentralized patient care areas to provide patient-centered care o Identifies high-risk patients and implements interventions to improve quality and safety
  • Makes appropriate evidence-based, patient-centered medication recommendations
  • Participates in the management of medical emergencies
  • Provides discharge medication review, reconciliation, and counseling as appropriate
  • Provides pharmaceutical services throughout medical center
  • Maintains proficiency in hospital computer systems and medication ordering systems
  • Provides accurate, safe, timely, and appropriate medication therapy based on patient age and needs
  • Completes critical patient monitoring and reviews patient profile/chart to identify, prevent, or mitigate drug-related problems, improper drug or dose selection, sub therapeutic dosage, over dosage, adverse drug reactions, drug interactions, failure to receive drugs, untreated indications, medication use without an indication, and treatment failures.

  • Communicates effectively and appropriately with healthcare providers and caregivers (physicians, nurses, etc.) and assures continuity of pharmaceutical care between shifts and among staff
  • Actively participates in stewardship activities and restricted medication programs
  • Participates in pharmacy operations and medication dispensing 
  • Maintains proficiency in and actively engages in operational programs, central dispensing pharmacies, satellite dispensing pharmacies, and specialty pharmacy areas as appropriate for job assignment
  • Facilitates specialty medication procurement, ordering, and dispensing procedures including but not limited to chemotherapy, parenteral nutrition, controlled substances, etc. as appropriate for assignment
  • Oversees pharmacy operations and technician practice/activities
  • Facilitates experiential education and practice advancement
  • Maintains proficiency in preceptor roles and actively emulates education/mentorship skills
  • Develops student, resident, and staff training experiences/competencies and creates new relationships for teaching and training opportunities
  • Identifies, designs, and implements improvements in the medication-use system to advance patient safety, maximize therapeutic outcomes, or control costs
  • Graduate of an ACPE accredited College of Pharmacy
  • B.S. degree in Pharmacy or Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree; PharmD preferred.
  • Required: Current licensure as a Pharmacist in practicing state
  • Completion of ASHP accredited PGY-2 Pharmacy Residency OR PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency plus 3 years clinical pharmacy experience in a specialized area OR 6 years clinical pharmacy experience in a specialized area.
  • Specialized knowledge and expertise in advanced pharmacy practice and service, comprehensive medication management, and evidence-based medicine in specialized area appropriate for clinical assignments
  • BPS Board Certification preferred*

    *Currently BPS recognizes fourteen specialties: ambulatory care pharmacy, cardiology pharmacy, compounded sterile preparations pharmacy, critical care pharmacy, emergency medicine pharmacy, geriatric pharmacy, infectious diseases pharmacy, nuclear pharmacy, nutrition support pharmacy, oncology pharmacy, pediatric pharmacy, pharmacotherapy, psychiatric pharmacy and solid organ transplantation pharmacy


Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:
Registered pharmacist with Pennsylvania licensure/eligibility.

  • Pharmacist
  • Act 34 with renewal


UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran

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