Description
We are seeking a Clinical Pharmacist to join our team at Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City. As a Clinical Pharmacist, you will work alongside an interdisciplinary healthcare team to guide medication therapy and improve patient outcomes.
Responsibilities:
- Review patients' medication orders for allergy interactions, duplication of therapy, appropriateness of drug therapy, and drug-drug interactions
- Make evidence-based interventions to optimise medication use
- Ensure safe, appropriate, cost-effective therapies and accurately dispense medications
- Provide counselling to patients and promote quality medication education and adherence
- Supervise and direct activities of interns, technicians, and support personnel as required
- Take the initiative to solve problems, including equipment, maintenance, drug availability, staffing issues, and extraordinary patient care concerns
- Identify potential areas for improvement, including processes that could be streamlined or revised to improve patient satisfaction
- Support clinic or hospital and system directives, including clinical, compliance, business operations, standardisation, and customer service
Qualifications:
- Doctor of Pharmacy or Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy degree from an accredited institution
- License to practise pharmacy in the state of Utah and dispense controlled substances
- Current knowledge of state and federal regulations and statutes regarding the practice of pharmacy in Utah
- Effective communication, people management, and project management skills
- Immunisation certification if applicable to practice site needs
Preferred Qualifications:
- Pediatric hospital experience
Physical Requirements:
- Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, documents, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess customer needs
- Frequent interactions with providers, colleagues, customers, patients/clients and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, needs, and issues quickly and accurately
- Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate supplies and equipment with precision and accuracy
Benefits: We offer a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness.
Salary: $62.89 - $92.44 per hour