Critical Care Clinical Pharmacist - Sharp Grossmont Hospital - Variable Shift - Full Time

About the role

Tri-City Medical Center is welcoming new team members from June 12 to July 13, 2026, to ensure a positive onboarding experience. Applications will resume after this period.

Responsibilities

• Provides comprehensive pharmaceutical care supporting the mission, values, and philosophy of Pharmacy Services and Sharp HealthCare.
• Demonstrates pro-active involvement with advisory service activities and displays follow-through and contribution to advisory service outcomes.
• Quantitative work, measured by the completion and submission of electronic forms consistent with the average established for each pharmacy department/shift.
• Consistently responds to and documents drug information requests promptly and professionally.
• Participates in ongoing data collection for MUE.
• Demonstrates knowledge and competency of chemotherapy dosing, monitoring, and established guidelines.
• Reviews patient medication profiles for appropriateness of drug therapy, therapeutic duplications, allergies, weight, height, minimum and maximum dosing guidelines, age specific requirements, renal and hepatic function, drug interactions and other pertinent factors to individualize patients' medication dosing requirements within boundaries approved by P&T/T&S committees.
• Identifies, resolves and documents prescribing, formulary and therapeutic issues through integration of patient variables, clinical status, drug knowledge, and professional judgment.
• Communicates with nurses and physicians in a timely manner about therapeutic issues or problems.
• Follows up on formulary compliance issues and/or communicates issues to management.
• Participates in Code-Blue emergencies as required, mixes and labels medications as needed, and provides information; Assures that pharmacy code-blue billing is completed where appropriate and restocks medications.
• Consistently participating in financial pillar/cost savings measures (e.g. IV to PO conversions, formulary adherence, etc.).
• Performs formal clinical consults, and patient monitoring practices as approved by the P&T (T&S) Committee(s).
• Attends and participates in staff meetings or reviews staff meeting communications.
• Answers phone in timely, friendly manner, stating department, name, and title.
• Fosters positive relationships through consistent, respectful, professional interactions with customers.
• Completes monthly assigned nursing unit / drug storage area inspections on time. Completes paperwork including inspection log, documents discrepancies, and makes recommendations for improvement. Brings critical issues to the attention of management.
• Ensures security of medication storage and compliance with Medication Management (MM) standards (i.e. all meds are labeled, patient own meds are checked, bedside medications have associated physician orders).

Qualifications

• California Pharmacist License - CA State Board of Pharmacy - REQUIRED
• AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association - REQUIRED
• ACLS Certification (Advanced Cardiac Life Support) - American Heart Association - REQUIRED
• Completed a Pharmacy Practice Residency with experience in critical care or a specialized clinical residency in critical care/emergency care. - PREFERRED
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) - American Heart Association - PREFERRED
• BPS Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist (BCPS) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties - PREFERRED
• Current license to practice pharmacy in the state of California without restriction or probation.

Skills

• Knowledge of chemotherapy dosing, monitoring, and established guidelines.
• Ability to communicate with nurses and physicians in a timely manner about therapeutic issues or problems.
• Proficiency with and utilization of automation and advances in technology (Carecast, Clinicomp, Pyxis Profile, Rx Check, Automix, repackaging robotics, physician order entry, etc.).
• Knowledge of age specific medication delivery systems (e.g. NICU admixtures, NICU and pediatric oral syringes, adult TPN / TNA solutions, final admixture concentration etc.).
• Knowledge and competency of IV Admixture / Aseptic Technique including the standards of USP.
• Knowledge and competency of chemotherapy preparation.
• Ability to participate in cost management initiatives including: i.) Managing appropriate Inventory levels to decrease staleness; wastage and keep Inventories low; reduce waste; ii.) attempts to reduce expired muds and use short dated items before they expire, etc.; and iii) Borrow loan paperwork complete.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

$77.910 - $100.530 - $112.590

Schedule

Variable