Clinical Pharmacist Crown Point IN - Full-Time Days

Join a worldclass academic healthcare systemUChicago Medicine Northwest Indiana as a Clinical Pharmacist. UChicago Medicine is an integrated academic and community health system with multiple primary medical facilities within the surrounding suburbs of Chicago. UChicago Medicine Crown Point is a new twostory 130000squarefoot multispecialty care center and microhospital in Northwest Indiana for what will be the academic health systems largest offsite facility and its first freestanding building in Indiana. UChiacgo Comprehensive Caner Center in Valparaiso and UChicago Comprehensive Cancer Center in Chesterton provide care to NWI hematology/oncology patients.

The Crown Point care center will include:
A microhospital with an eightbed emergency department and a shortstay inpatient unit
A comprehensive cancer center with infusion therapy as well as radiation medical and surgical oncology
An imaging center with MRI CT PET Xray and ultrasound capabilities
An outpatient surgery center
Laboratory services
Medical offices with access to UChicago Medicines physicians and specialists including those in cancer care cardiology digestive diseases orthopaedics neurosciences pediatrics primary care surgical specialties transplant care and womens health.

In this role as Clinical Pharmacist you will assume responsibility and accountability for the provision of safe effective and prompt medication therapy. Through various assignments within the department they provide support of centralized and decentralized medicationuse systems as well as deliver optimal medication therapy to patients with a broad range of disease states. Clinical Pharmacists adeptly function in pharmacy operational areas including but not limited to central dispensing pharmacies satellite dispensing pharmacies and specialty pharmacy areas. Clinical Pharmacists proficiently provide direct patientcentered care and integrated pharmacy operational services in a decentralized practice setting with physicians nurses and other hospital personnel. These clinicians provide coverage of various interdisciplinary programs to deliver medication therapy management within targeted patient care services and to ensure pharmaceutical care programs are appropriately integrated throughout the institution. In these clinical roles Clinical Pharmacists participate in all necessary aspects of the medicationuse system while providing comprehensive and individualized pharmaceutical care to the patients in their assigned areas

Essential Job Functions

• Maintains proficiency in decentralized pharmacy services and clinical pharmacy programs.
• Places practice priority on the delivery of patientcentered care.
• Works as an active member of multidisciplinary team and collaborates with healthcare providers within decentralized patient care areas.
• Proficiently maintains patient information and efficiently interprets patients health care needs including patient problem lists and prioritized pharmacist interventions.
• Implements evaluates and redesigns pharmaceutical care plans based on patient progress and evolving goals for medication usage including drug dosing monitoring (including nutritional support pharmacokinetic monitoring and anticoagulation therapy etc..
• Provides discharge medication review reconciliation and counseling as appropriate.
• Educates patients regarding safe and effective use of medications possible medication side effects and the role of prescribed medications in the overall therapeutic care plan.
• Completes critical patient monitoring and reviews patient profile/chart to identify prevent or mitigate drugrelated problems improper drug or dose selection sub therapeutic dosage over dosage adverse drug reactions drug interactions failure to receive untreated indications medication use without an indication and treatment failures.
• Facilitates specialty medication procurement ordering and dispensing procedures including but not limited to chemotherapy parenteral nutrition controlled substances etc. as appropriate for assignment.
• Serves as a preceptor/educator for UCMC pharmacy residency and student experiential education programs including maintaining training and experience in pharmacy practice areas appropriate for teaching assignments
• Identifies designs and implements improvements in the medicationuse system to advance patient safety maximize therapeutic outcomes or control costs

Required Qualifications

• Graduate of an ACPE accredited College of Pharmacy
• Doctor of Pharmacy or other advanced degree highly preferred.
• Completion of an ASHP accredited PGY1 Pharmacy Residency preferred

• Indiana License

• Clinical pharmacy experience 24 years) in a hospital setting preferred

Position Details

• Job Type/FTE: Fulltime 1.0
• Shift: Day Shift
• Unit/Department: Pharmacy
• CBA Code:NonUnion

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Must comply with UChicago Medicines COVID19 Vaccination requirement as a condition of employment. If you have already received the vaccination you must provide proof as part of the preemployment process. This is in addition to your compliance with the Flu Vaccination requirement as well. Medical and religious exemptions will be considered consistent with applicable law. Lastly a preemployment physical drug screening and background check are also required for all employees prior to hire.

Compensation & Benefits Overview

UChicago Medicine is committed to transparency in compensation and benefits. The pay range provided reflects the anticipated wage or salary reasonably expected to be offered for the position.

The pay range is based on a fulltime equivalent 1.0 FTE) and is reflective of current market data reviewed on an annual basis. Compensation offered at the time of hire will vary based on candidate qualifications and experience and organizational considerations such as internal equity. Pay ranges for employees subject to Collective Bargaining Agreements are negotiated by the medical center and their respective union.

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