PHARMACIST - PART-TIME

Pharmacist - Part-Time The pharmacist provides clinical support and distribution services in coordination with physicians, nurses, and ancillary personnel in delivering quality and cost effective drug therapy to patients. This position assumes responsibility for problem solving, teaching, and systems control. This position leads daily activities of the technical and student staff. Essential job functions include accurately profiling medication orders, reviewing patient allergy information, consulting with healthcare professionals to resolve order discrepancies, accurately dispensing medications, ensuring medications are reviewed for appropriateness, providing a productive department workflow, compounding medications, accurately checking medications prepared by others, documenting and maintaining necessary records, performing various clinical functions, accurately documenting and maintaining records for controlled substances, monitoring usage and dispensing controlled substances, dispensing prescriptions, maintaining prescription files, working with third party payors, submitting narcotic records, dispensing medications for bedside delivery, counseling patients, filling prescriptions for hospice patients, staffing the outpatient pharmacy, supporting performance improvement programs, entering medication errors, adverse drug reactions, and pharmacist interventions, documenting pharmacokinetic consults, educating co-workers and the public on drug information topics, presenting new drug topics and updating drug information to co-workers, presenting various drug topics to nursing/medical staff, having cognitive ability to function and concentrate on the essential and specialty functions of the job, achieving thoroughness and accuracy, and being able to think and concentrate for an entire shift. Required qualifications include a PharmD or Bachelor's degree from an accredited school of pharmacy, completion of continuing education as required by the state board of pharmacy, strong leadership ability, good organizational skills, independent and critical thinking skills, and sound judgment. Preferred qualifications include hospital pharmacy experience, current basic life support (BLS) approved curriculum of the American Heart Association (CPR and AED) program, authorization to administer injectable medications license from the state of Pennsylvania. License, certifications, and clearances include current licensure to practice as a pharmacist in the state of Pennsylvania or obtain within 90 days of hire, PA Act 34 Pennsylvania access to criminal history clearance. This position has no direct supervisory responsibilities, but does serve as a coach and mentor for other positions in the department. Incumbents will be scheduled based on operational need (rotate shifts, standby, on-call, etc.). Travel may be expected locally between Independence Health locations. Independence Health and its affiliated companies are equal opportunity employers. It is their policy to prohibit discrimination of any type and to afford equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, or genetic information, or any other classification protected by law. Independence Health and its affiliated companies will comply with all applicable laws and regulations.