Clinical Pharmacy Specialist

2 weeks ago

Cypress, Texas, United States Houston Methodist Cypress Hospital Full time
Job Summary

Houston Methodist Cypress Hospital is seeking a highly skilled Pharmacy Clinical Specialist to join our team. As a key member of our pharmacy department, you will be responsible for providing expert clinical pharmacist duties to enable the delivery of optimal pharmacotherapy to patients.

Key Responsibilities
  • Perform daily medication therapy regimen reviews of patients within designated areas of responsibility or targeted populations served.
  • Provide education to fellow pharmacists, nursing and medical staffs, and others inside and outside the department.
  • Conduct CQI evaluations and basic research promoting the safe, effective use of medications.
  • Precept pharmacy students and pharmacy residents on clinical patient care rotations within areas of responsibility.
  • Contribute to fulfilling the organization's mission to provide innovative, personalized, cost-effective pharmaceutical care in a culture dedicated to quality and safety.
Essential FunctionsPeople Essential Functions
  • Promote a positive work environment and contribute to a dynamic, team-focused work unit that actively helps one another to achieve optimal department results.
  • Collaborate with other healthcare professionals as needed for problem resolution and/or achievement of identified patient-specific goals.
  • Serve as a mentor for Clinical Specialists and pharmacy residents on research projects.
  • Precept ASHP-accredited residency program residents, and students from affiliated colleges of pharmacy.
  • Develop educational materials and provide educational programs for the pharmacy staff and other hospital personnel.
Service Essential Functions
  • Process all orders/requests accurately and efficiently, verifying appropriateness of all drugs in reference to the patient's diagnosis, allergies, height, and weight.
  • Exercise good judgment in patient care decisions per performance standard and document patient care activities and patient outcomes as impacted by pharmaceutical care and clinical interventions.
  • Provide patient-specific and non-patient-specific drug information support regularly.
  • Serve as a pharmacy lead on policy and procedure reviews and respond timely to audit reports within areas of responsibility.
  • Serve as a member on one or more Medical Staff committees and actively contribute to accomplishing the goals of the committee or subcommittee.
Quality/Safety Essential Functions
  • Participate in developing medication therapy/disease state management protocols and/or dosing guidelines within specialty areas.
  • Provide pharmaceutical care in designated practice areas to patients from an advanced to expert level.
  • Lead internal HM quality management and research programs.
  • Develop, implement, evaluate, and draft reports of quality assurance program outcomes and conduct pharmacy research in concert with the departmental goals and objectives.
  • Serve as an on-call resource in assigned roles as determined by manager.
Finance Essential Functions
  • Contribute to the evaluation of medications for the HM Formulary and provision of pharmacoeconomically sound medication in areas of responsibility and avoiding medication-related complications.
  • Participate in HM committees and initiatives involving medication use for the optimization of pharmacoeconomic benefits.
  • Self-motivated to independently manage time effectively and prioritize tasks for self and for specialty areas of focus.
Growth/Innovation Essential Functions
  • Contribute regularly to intra-departmental, interdepartmental publications.
  • Support the Department's ACPE delivery mission by providing ACPE programs and when needed, mentoring residents' preparation of ACPE programs.
  • Participate in research projects to advance the pharmacy department's goals and the pharmacy profession.
  • Submit research and scholarly work for publication, platform presentations, and/or poster presentations.
  • Give presentations at local, state, and national meetings, including in-services presentations to pharmacy, medical, nursing, and nutrition staff in areas of responsibility.
Requirements
  • Graduate of an education program approved by the credentialing body for the required credential(s) indicated below in the Certifications, Licenses, and Registrations section.
  • Must have one of the following:
    • Successful completion of ASHP-accredited postgraduate year 1 (PGY-1) and year 2 (PGY-2) residency training programs or equivalent professional experience.
    • Six years of clinical practice experience.
    • Three years of experience as a HM Clinical Specialist.
  • Meets HM standards of an ASHP-Qualified Residency Preceptor.
  • Oncology experience highly preferred.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Board of Pharmacy Specialist (BPS).
  • Demonstrates the skills and competencies necessary to safely perform the assigned job, determined through on-going skills, competency assessments, and performance evaluations.
  • Sufficient proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing the English language necessary to perform the essential functions of this job.
  • Ability to effectively communicate with patients, physicians, family members, and co-workers in a manner consistent with a customer service focus and application of positive language principles.
  • Exhibits strong interpersonal, teamwork, and leadership skills with all levels of the healthcare team and assures delivery of excellent customer service to all patients, visitors, physicians, and co-workers.
  • Demonstrates professional and technical competence in the selection, evaluation, utilization, and distribution of drugs and drug information and applies these to all patient groups, neonate to geriatric.
  • Operates at a proficient level with regards to one's application of the principles of rational drug therapy.
  • Knowledge of operational pharmacy practice and demonstrated record of experience providing fundamental clinical pharmacy services and demonstrated experience with direct patient care activities and interactions with nursing and medical staff members.
  • Research competence in an area related to the practice of pharmacy.
Work Attire

Uniform No

Scrubs Yes

Business professional Yes

Other (department-approved) No

On-Call

Yes

Travel

May require travel within the Houston Metropolitan area Yes

May require travel outside Houston Metropolitan area Yes

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