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MO-SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital
Worker Type:
Regular
Job Highlights:
Join a team where your work matters – every moment, every patient, every community. At SSM Health, you’ll be empowered to grow, supported to thrive, and inspired to make a lasting impact.
In this role, you will provide hands-on support in a fast-paced environment where every shift makes a direct impact on patients and families. Your attention to detail, compassion, and ability to work closely with various teams will help create a safer, smoother care experience. If you want to grow in a collaborative care setting, this role is perfect for you.
- Department: Pharmacy
- Schedule: Full time, Day shift, Monday through Friday.Leader on-call rotation requirement.
- The position is fully oniste.
Prior Pediatric experience and Pharmacy leadership, highly preferred!
Apply today. SSM Health- We bring out the incredible in you, every day.
Job Summary:
Manages the clinical pharmacy, including developing, monitoring, evaluating and coordinating clinical pharmacy services that promote desirable patient outcomes. Develops and implements policies, procedures, process guidelines, and protocols to ensure the provision of safe, effective and economical pharmacotherapy for all patients in the hospital, ensures compliance with clinical practice standards.
Job Responsibilities and Requirements:
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Collaborates with medical staff, nursing, administration and pharmacy director to maintain productive and effective relationships to ensure the safe and effective delivery of pharmacy services across the continuum of care. Ensures conflict resolution, group dynamics and facilitate significant projects. Participates, coordinates and/or leads committees and/or functions as appropriate and/or required by the organization.
- Develops and implements quality improvement initiatives, fiscal controls, facilitates human and capital resources, formulary management, and risk management functions for the clinical pharmacy program.
- Remains up to date on advances and changes in pharmacy related subjects through continuing education to possess most up-to-date knowledge of meet clients' needs. Provides input and recommendations to revise clinical guidelines and or procurement of educational materials to assure best practices. Maintains competency and skills and is able to perform duties of the staff pharmacist when needed.
- Recruits, interviews, promotes, disciplines, and terminates pharmacy staff. Sets performance standards and goals for direct reports and the department. Evaluates and counsels staff on their performance. Monitors workload statistics to ensure appropriate staffing levels.
- Works with pharmacy buyer, medical staff, and director to evaluate and select supplies that optimize product selection and pharmacy purchasing.
- Develops and presents continuing education programs for pharmacists, physicians, nurses, students and others to assure providers have current knowledge of therapies and risks. Procures or creates educational materials for providers and for patient education.
- Precept pharmacy students and residents, as applicable.
- Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
EDUCATION
- Pharmacy degree (Pharm.D; Bachelor of Pharmacy) from accredited school of pharmacy
EXPERIENCE
- Two years’ experience, with demonstrated leadership responsibility
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
- Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
- Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
- Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
- Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
- Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
- Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
- Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
- Rare climbing.
REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS
State of Work Location: Illinois
- Pharmacist, Registered - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR)
- And
- Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)
- And
- Board Certified Ambulatory Care Pharmacist (BCACP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Cardiology Pharmacist (BCCP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Critical Care Pharmacist (BCCCP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Emergency Medicine Pharmacist (BCEMP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Geriatric Pharmacist (BCGP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Infectious Diseases Pharmacist (BCIDP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Nuclear Pharmacist (BCNP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Nutrition Support Pharmacist (BCNSP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Oncology Pharmacist (BCOP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Pediatric Pharmacy Specialist (BCPPS) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist (BCPS) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Psychiatric Pharmacist (BCPP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Sterile Compounding Pharmacist (BCSCP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Transplant Pharmacist (BCTXP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
State of Work Location: Missouri
- Pharmacist - Missouri Division of Professional Registration
- And
- Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)
- And
- Board Certified Ambulatory Care Pharmacist (BCACP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Cardiology Pharmacist (BCCP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Critical Care Pharmacist (BCCCP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Emergency Medicine Pharmacist (BCEMP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Geriatric Pharmacist (BCGP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Infectious Diseases Pharmacist (BCIDP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Nuclear Pharmacist (BCNP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Nutrition Support Pharmacist (BCNSP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Oncology Pharmacist (BCOP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Pediatric Pharmacy Specialist (BCPPS) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist (BCPS) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Psychiatric Pharmacist (BCPP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Sterile Compounding Pharmacist (BCSCP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Transplant Pharmacist (BCTXP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
State of Work Location: Oklahoma
- Pharmacist - Oklahoma State Board of Pharmacy
- And
- Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)
- And
- Board Certified Ambulatory Care Pharmacist (BCACP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Cardiology Pharmacist (BCCP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Critical Care Pharmacist (BCCCP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Emergency Medicine Pharmacist (BCEMP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Geriatric Pharmacist (BCGP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Infectious Diseases Pharmacist (BCIDP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Nuclear Pharmacist (BCNP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Nutrition Support Pharmacist (BCNSP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Oncology Pharmacist (BCOP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Pediatric Pharmacy Specialist (BCPPS) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist (BCPS) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Psychiatric Pharmacist (BCPP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Sterile Compounding Pharmacist (BCSCP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Transplant Pharmacist (BCTXP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
State of Work Location: Wisconsin
- Pharmacist - Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services
- And
- Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)
- And
- Board Certified Ambulatory Care Pharmacist (BCACP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Cardiology Pharmacist (BCCP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Critical Care Pharmacist (BCCCP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Emergency Medicine Pharmacist (BCEMP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Geriatric Pharmacist (BCGP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Infectious Diseases Pharmacist (BCIDP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Nuclear Pharmacist (BCNP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Nutrition Support Pharmacist (BCNSP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Oncology Pharmacist (BCOP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Pediatric Pharmacy Specialist (BCPPS) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist (BCPS) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Psychiatric Pharmacist (BCPP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Sterile Compounding Pharmacist (BCSCP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
- Or
- Board Certified Transplant Pharmacist (BCTXP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)
Work Shift:
Day Shift (United States of America)
Job Type:
Employee
Department:
8419000010 Pharmacy Resident
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40
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