Pharmacy Specialist Behavioral Health - Sharp Grossmont Hospital - Variable Shift - Full Time

Hours :

Shift Start Time:

8 AM Shift End Time:

4:30 PM

AWS Hours Requirement:

8/40 - 8 Hour Shift

Additional Shift Information:

Weekend Requirements:

No Weekends

On-Call Required:

No

Hourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum):

$80.440 - $103.790 - $116.240

The stated pay scale reflects the range that Sharp reasonably expects to pay for this position. The actual pay rate and pay grade for this position will be dependent on a variety of factors, including an applicant’s years of experience, unique skills and abilities, education, alignment with similar internal candidates, marketplace factors, other requirements for the position, and employer business practices.

• What You Will Do
• To provide the professional, clinical and technical knowledge, and skills and expertise required for the provision of comprehensive pharmaceutical care that supports the mission, values and philosophy of Pharmacy Services and Sharp HealthCare.

• Required Qualifications
• •Bachelor's Degree in pharmacy. Or

• •Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD)
• •1 Year Postdoctoral experience in a hospital pharmacy environment.
• •AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association -REQUIRED

California Pharmacist License - CA State Board of Pharmacy -REQUIRED

BPS Board Certified Psychiatric Pharmacist (BCPP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties -REQUIRED

• Preferred Qualifications
• •Completed a PGY-1 Acute Care Residency.

Completed a PGY-2 Psychiatric Care Residency.

• Other Qualification Requirements
• •Mental Health First Aid Certification - Preferred

Essential Functions

• •Clinical Advisory Services
• Demonstrates pro-active involvement with advisory service activities and displays follow-through and contribution to advisory service outcomes as evidenced by (including but not limited to): (e.g. Renal Target Monitoring, Antibiotic Surveillance Team, Medication Usage Evaluations and other programs or initiatives specific to the entity).
• Qualitative participation in clinical intervention program through consistent issue identification, provision of reliable best practice/literature based recommendations, follow-through with prescribers and other clinicians.
• 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.
• 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 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, ER/XL to IR adjustments as indicated, formulary adherence, etc).
• Assists and oversees medication shortages in the BH arena.

• •Clinical Consult Services
• Certification/Recertification, Participation, Knowledge: Demonstrates competency in performing formal clinical consults, and patient monitoring practices as approved by the P and T Committee:
• Has met minimum certification/recertification requirements as outlined in the Pharmacy Certification Process for Formal pharmacotherapy Consult and Advisory Services policy and procedure for consult services offered at entity.
• Participates in Clinical Consult Services for example, Pharmacokinetics, Heparin, Pain Management, and other services specific to the entity.
• Demonstrates knowledge of consult services as evidenced by attainment of consult service goals and proper documentation of actions, recommendations, and patient outcomes on the pharmacy monitoring forms.
• Performs by leaving concise, objective, legible, and professional notes in the patient's clinical chart.
• Consistently demonstrates ability to complete formal clinical workload assigned during shift as evidenced by completing all consults and advisory services in a timely manner.

• •Behavioral Health Pharmaceutical Care
• Provide comprehensive pharmaceutical care to Behavioral Health Patient:
• Participate in daily patient care activities such as reviewing medication orders for accuracy and appropriateness.
• Verifies appropriate utilization, dosing/dose conversions, scheduling, and route/site of administration for high-cost agents, including long-acting injectable antipsychotics.
• Provide therapeutic drug monitoring for targeted agents or agents with narrow therapeutic index and supports prescribers in dose adjustments as indicated.
• Monitors and intervenes on psychotropic medication regimes which qualify as polypharmacy or are associated with the development of tardive dyskinesia.
• Discuss medication order clarifications with the psychiatrist or admitting prescriber and inform others of medication order changes.
• Oversees medication schedule and delivery in the Outpatient Long Acting Injection clinic.
• Documents adherence to program rules for long-acting injectable inpatient hospital free trial programs.
• Monitor drug therapy to evaluate appropriateness of use, dose, dosage form, regimen, route, therapeutic duplication, and drug interactions.
• Provide pharmacokinetic consultations and other dosing as required.
• Work corroboratively with other clinicians and health-care providers to implement and maintain innovative disease management programs and clinical pharmacy services.
• Participate in the development of medication use management programs within Sharp Healthcare including clinical guidelines, critical pathways, disease management, and drug use programs.
• Provide operational support in the Behavioral Health Department and Central Pharmacy as determined by departmental need:
• * Resolves drug distribution related issues.
• * Resolves Pyxis related issues.
• Facilitate proper information transfer with regard to medication use for patients converted to Inpatient registry from Behavioral Health.
• Promote the use of the formulary by converting non-formulary orders to formulary when possible, but coordinates procurement of non-formulary drugs when necessary.
• Promote and demonstrate rational, cost-effective drug therapy:
• * Focus on cost avoidance and cost savings due to medication use.
• * Monitor the use of expensive medications to assure there is use consistent with approved criteria.
• * Anticipate changes in drug therapy and report the potential impact it will represent to the overall hospital and drug budget.

• •Medication Reconciliation and Patient Education
• Reconcile patient home medications, pharmacy and nursing medication records as necessary.
• Facilitate discharge/admission/transfer for patients.
• Provide patient specific medication use teaching for discharge medications when appropriate.

• •Multidisciplinary Communication
• Operational Services (dealing with internal customers):
• * Clearly communicates goals and instructions to other staff members, including handoffs between shifts (written/oral).
• * Participates in staff orientation and resident/student training programs.
• * Effectively intercepts and troubleshoots problems, as demonstrated by effective problem solving, prioritization of issues with respect to level of significance and Impact to patient care, safety, workflow, and communicatio