Solid Organ Transplant (Cardiothoracic) Clinical Pharmacist Specialist

About the role

Baylor St Luke's Medical Center is a joint venture between Baylor College of Medicine and St. Luke's Health. It is located in the Texas Medical Center and serves as the home of the Texas Heart Institute, founded in 1962 by Denton A. Cooley, MD.

Responsibilities

• Promotes long and short-range planning to respond and integrate within the market, Region, and systems.
• Works collaboratively with pharmacy peers to standardize clinical pharmacy systems when appropriate.
• Works, as directed by facility pharmacy leadership, on developing, coaching and mentoring pharmacy staff to maximize their scope of practice in the provision of clinical pharmacy services and scholarly activities across the continuum of care.
• Educates the medical staff regarding cost-effective, quality pharmaceutical care based on evidence based medicine and best practices.
• Participates in assigned committees relevant to their knowledge, experience and practice area.
• Assures that clinical pharmacy initiatives are in compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Precepts Pharmacy Interns and Pharmacy Residents.
• Functions as a clinical pharmacist (centralized/ decentralized staffing).
• This position may serve as the Residency Program Director as applicable.
• Provides leadership in establishing and maintaining clinical pharmacy programs.
• Mentors staff pharmacists to clinical pharmacy activities.
• Collaborates with the facility Pharmacy leadership team in establishing action plans to support department initiatives at the campus level.
• Ensures that all actions taken and methods to produce the results outlined below incorporate and promote CSH’s mission, vision, and values.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy or Doctor of Pharmacy degree.
• Residency completion or three (3) years of clinical experience.
• Active Texas Pharmacist License in good standing.
• Board Certification (e.g. BCCP, BCPS) required within 3 years of hire.
• BLS Certification issued by the American Heart Association.
• ACLS Certification issued by the American Heart Association.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 80 hours per week.
• Monday-Friday 8am-5pm schedule.
• No remote work.
• Full-time employment.
• Category: Pharmacy.

Skills

• Ability to document clinical activities and interventions.
• Interpret medication orders and ensure appropriate drug selection and therapeutic regimens.
• Communicate drug information to patients and health professionals.
• Maintain a working knowledge of automated systems.
• Provide patient counseling and drug information.

Benefits

Details about benefits are available upon request.

Pay

The posted compensation range of $49.78 - $74.05 /hour is a reasonable estimate that extends from the lowest to the highest pay CommonSpirit in good faith believes it might pay for this particular job, based on the circumstances at the time of posting.

Schedule

Monday-Friday 8am-5pm.