It's more than a career, it's a calling MO-SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital - Lake Saint Louis
Worker Type: Regular
Job Highlights: Job Highlights (Additional Job Description) Sign-on Bonus Eligible – $7,500 (Sign-on bonuses are for external qualified candidates. Internal candidates – check with your recruiter to see what options are available for you)
Department: Pharmacy
Patient Population or Ratio: N/A
Schedule: Part Time, Evening Shift, Shift start and end times and days of the week are variable but will be evenings. 1 weekend per month.
Starting Pay: 53.72 (Offers are based on years of experience and equity for this role.)
Shift Differentials: Evenings-$2.50; Nights-$4.25; Weekends-$2.50
Location: St. Joseph's Hospital – Lake St. Louis
Job Summary: Provides pharmaceutical care to patients, verifies medication orders, compounds and dispenses pharmaceuticals in accordance with federal, state and local regulations and hospital policy. Serves as a resource to other healthcare professionals including pharmacy students and residents and ensures that patient care meets standards of safety and effectiveness. Oversees the duties of the pharmacy technicians and interns.
Job Responsibilities and Requirements: PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
Ensures safety and appropriateness of medication therapy through order verification, dispensing, home medication reconciliation, chart review, patient counseling, lab value monitoring and dose/therapy adjustment as applicable. Documents medication related plans and interventions in electronic medical record.
Provides clinical consultation delivering best-practice, evidence-based and complete information to practitioners. Makes recommendations and encourages safe and cost-effective pharmacotherapy for patients through multi-disciplinary collaboration.
Oversees the medication dispensing process to ensure accurate and timely delivery of optimal pharmacotherapy to patients. This includes supervision of pharmacy technicians and/or interns who support the role of the pharmacist in the drug delivery system.
Precept pharmacy students and residents, as applicable.
Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
Performs other duties as assigned.
EDUCATION
Pharmacy degree (Pharm.D; Bachelor of Pharmacy) from accredited school of pharmacy EXPERIENCE
No experience required PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
Rare climbing.
REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS
State of Work Location: Illinois
Pharmacist, Registered - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) State of Work Location: Missouri
Pharmacist - Missouri Division of Professional Registration State of Work Location: Oklahoma
Pharmacist - Oklahoma State Board of Pharmacy State of Work Location: Wisconsin
Pharmacist - Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services Work Shift: Evening Shift (United States of America)
Job Type: Employee
Department: ******** Pharmacy
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 24
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