What are the responsibilities and job description for the Clinical Pharmacist Specialist position at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center?
The responsibilities of this position are to provide collaborative drug therapy management utilizing collaborative practice agreements detailing prescriptive privileges in both the inpatient and outpatient settings, allowing for medication order initiation, modification, and discontinuation as well as laboratory ordering for medication monitoring purposes. Patient care responsibilities of this position are to round daily with an interdisciplinary team and provide drug information, comprehensive pharmacotherapy consultations, pharmacokinetic dosing, medication reconciliation, and drug discharge counseling and to participate in codes and formulary management. Opportunities for direct patient care within the ambulatory care clinics are also available. The Clinical Pharmacist Specialist will also administer lectures to the medical/nursing staff, participate in key hospital-wide committees, and serve as a liaison between the pharmacy and medical/nursing staff.
Another responsibility of the position is to serve as preceptor for PGY1 and PGY2 pharmacy residency programs. The role encompasses serving as a faculty member, role model, mentor and preceptor, through contributions to the residency learning experience, recruitment, and accreditation requirements
- Participate in daily rounds with med-surg teams
- Collaborates with physicians, medical residents and other prescribers to ensure safe and cost-effective medication use including therapeutic substitution
- Provides drug information to the medical, nursing, and pharmacy staffs, and other allied healthcare professionals
- Monitors for medication efficacy and toxicity
- Manages sub-therapeutic and supra-therapeutic drug levels and provides therapeutic drug level monitoring
- Administers medication reconciliation and patient counseling
- Detects, reports, and manages adverse drug events
- Detects, reports, and manages medication errors
- Participates in collaborative drug therapy management including ordering laboratory tests, ordering medication, and documenting notes in medical charts
- Opportunities for direct patient care within the ambulatory care clinics
- Conducts medication-use evaluations and analyzes data generated regarding prescribing trends and proper medication usage
- Serves as chair, director, team leader in committees, special projects or clinical programs
- Participates in hospital-wide committees such as the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee
- Documents pharmacotherapy interventions and provides pharmacoeconomic reports
- Serves as a preceptor for PGY1 and PGY1 pharmacy residents
- Oversight of resident's progression, learning experiences, scheduling, and evaluations
- Mentors residents through clinical practice, research and presentation and publication scholarship
- Oversees daily activities of pharmacy practice and specialty residency programs
- Participates in pharmacy student educational activities
- Performs all other duties as required
Position Requirement:
- PGY1 pharmacy residency required
- PharmD required
- Active NYS Pharmacist License
Non - Union
Mon - Fri / 8am - 4pm
Annual Salary: $145,891
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Salary : $145,891