Clinical Pharmacist - Pediatric Neurology

About the role

Discover Vanderbilt Health: With eight hospitals and over 180 clinics, we are the region’s largest comprehensive academic health system. Vanderbilt Health has a long tradition of providing world-class care to the people of the Mid-South, living out our mission of moving medicine forward through preeminent programs in patient care, education and research. Here you’ll find a spirit of collaboration and a supportive community where your expertise is valued, your knowledge expanded and your uniqueness celebrated. We are committed to fostering an environment where talented, compassionate people are united in bringing the most advanced care to our neighbors throughout the region. Organization: MCC Rx Services Job Summary: Provides leadership in a specialized healthcare team and the patient to assure optimal cost-effective drug therapy. This includes developing specific pharmacotherapeutic goals, recommending a regimen and developing a monitoring plan to meet the individualized drug therapy needs of the patient. The Clinical Pharmacist is responsible for leading efforts in the prevention and reporting of medication errors and adverse drug reactions according to policy and works to continuously improve process and practice in the institution to enhance safety of medication therapy. Position Highlights The Pediatric Neurology Clinical Pharmacist will work directly with Neurology providers and patients, helping to provide comprehensive pharmacy services to patients in the outpatient setting. Responsibilities may include medication reconciliation, optimizing pharmacotherapy, patient counseling, prior authorization review and approval, assisting with retail prescriptions, and working with the patient to navigate outpatient pharmacy services. Collaboration and integration with pharmacy, nursing and medical staff, along with excellent communication skills are essential. Allied health is among the fastest growing occupations in healthcare today. This area can be defined as credentialed professionals who perform supportive, diagnostic, and therapeutic health care services to promote health and prevent disease in a variety of settings. These areas are crucial to Vanderbilt Health’s reputation for excellence in these areas that has made us a major center for patient referrals from throughout the Mid-South. Each year, people throughout Tennessee and the southeast choose Vanderbilt Health for their health care because of our leadership in medical science and our dedication to treating patients with dignity and compassion.

Responsibilities

• Reviews drug orders and/or prescriptions to ensure the safe, appropriate and cost-effective use of medications.
• Prepares and dispenses medications, provides drug information and manages medication therapy in accordance with federal, state and local regulations and hospital policy.
• Provides outstanding patient care by optimizing medication preparation and resolving medication-related problems.
• Maintains the quality, safety, and consistency of clinical pharmacy services in assigned areas.
• Supervises the activities of assigned support personnel and verifying the accuracy and appropriateness of all medications prepared by support personnel prior to dispensing to patients or dispensing to healthcare providers for administration to patients.
• The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.

Requirements

• Current Tennessee Pharmacist License (LIC-Pharmacist)
• Bachelor’s degree (Required)
• 1 year of relevant work experience (Experience Level: 1 year)
• Completion of an ASHP‑accredited PGY‑1 residency program with pediatric or neurology experience, or 2 years of pediatric experience (Preferred)

Skills

• Mentoring & Coaching (Intermediate): Demonstrates good training and mentoring practices, acts as a mentor, seeks clear problem definition, supports pride in accomplishment, encourages two‑way dialogue, explores alternative solutions.
• Medication Management (Advanced): Demonstrates expert expertise in complex situations, determines clinical appropriateness of medications, doses, indications, contraindications, adverse effects, monitors for therapeutic duplication, interprets lab results, provides drug information to professionals, patients, and families.
• Pharmaceutical Drug Preparation & Dispensing (Novice): Possesses fundamental proficiency to review, prepare, and dispense prescribed medications, including aseptic technique for sterile preparations to minimize contamination risk.
• Pharmaceutical Quality Assurance & Compliance (Expert): Demonstrates expert knowledge of applicable rules and regulations, expertise in process improvement and quality assurance, commitment to continuous quality improvement, ensures compliance with federal, state, local regulations and organizational policies, may represent the organization at regulatory and industry groups.
• Pharmaceutical Computer Literacy (Novice): Demonstrates proficient understanding of computers or completed training for pharmaceutical applications, capable of using fundamental features to support patient care issues of moderate difficulty.

Benefits

This role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact within Vanderbilt Health, supported by a comprehensive benefits package which may include health, disability,