Clinical Pharmacist Ambulatory Care ClinicOrlando, FL

Clinical Pharmacist

At AdventHealth East Orlando, we foster an environment focused on healing bodies, quieting minds and soothing spirits. For more than 30 years, we've provided the finest care for each patient and family we serve, moving far beyond our humble beginnings as a 15-bed facility founded in 1941 to a robust facility with intensive care and a pediatric department. Today, we're an innovative and respected full-service community hospital that fills a vital need in a fast-growing area. And as a team member, you can experience a new vision of what suburban health care can be.

When you're ready to take the next step in your career to provide lifesaving care, learn more about the open positions at our hospital in Orange County.

Every day, our fellow team members show up to work, unified by one shared mission: Extending the Healing Ministry of Jesus Christ. As a faith-based health care organization, our story is one of hope as we strive to heal and restore the body, mind and spirit. Though our facilities are spread across the country, this unwavering belief binds us together. Across every office, exam and patient room, we're committed to providing individualized, holistic care. This is our Christian mission, and it inspires us to help make communities healthier and happier.

All the benefits and perks you need for you and your family:

• Benefits from Day One
• Paid Days Off from Day One
• Career Development

Schedule: Part Time As Needed, no weekends

Shift: (Various)

The community youll be caring for: AdventHealth East Orlando:

• AdventHealth East Orlando, a 265-bed community hospital, has been serving East Orlando residents since 1941 as an innovative local leader that fills a vital need in a fast-growing area.
• A recent 200,000 square-foot expansion project upgraded the hospital to 265 beds, with a spacious patient tower and 80 new private rooms designed to enhance the holistic care experience.
• Annual number of emergency cases: 89,018

The role youll contribute:

The Clinical Pharmacist supports the mission of the department, hospital, and health-system by preventing, identifying and resolving medication use issues to assure patients safety, improve patients satisfaction, optimize patients outcome and minimize cost. May work in the centralized and decentralized areas. Will perform all functions of a registered pharmacist including accurate and timely dispensing, clinical interactions with patients and healthcare team, and technician supervision.

The value youll bring to the team:

• Pharmacy Operations Actively performs all pharmacist functions, actively participates in established standard work parameters, and maintains functional proficiency in and actively provides coverage of central pharmacy and/or satellite areas as requested. Maintains operational expertise in, actively provides coverage of, and proactively leads the services provided by central pharmacy, IV room pharmacy, and/or satellite pharmacy areas. Oversees and ensures appropriate utilization of medication automation, technology, and computer systems. Accurately oversees the management of medication inventories and the preparation and dispensing of patient-specific medication doses. Supervises technician and intern practice, prioritizes work load, organizes work flow, and checks accuracy of pharmacy technician activities.
• Pharmacy Practice Completes critical medication order scrutiny, drug profile review, and patient monitoring to identify, prevent, or mitigate medication-related problems. Proficiently verifies/enters medication orders and proactively communicates with medical staff to resolve problem medication orders. Provides patient-centered care services, including accurate, safe and timely medication therapy, and promotes cost-effective drug therapy, including actively participating in stewardship activities and restricted medication/surveillance programs. Initiates and facilitates appropriate drug dosing and manages medication-related pharmacist consults. Facilitates medication safety practices, including identifying, mitigating, and reporting potential and actual adverse drug events, adverse drug reactions, and medication errors. Participates in the management of medical emergencies. Maintains continuous learning and pharmacy practice development.
• Clinical Pharmacy Services Actively participates in direct patient care programs and provides accurate, safe, timely, and appropriate medication therapy based on patient needs. Works as an active member of pharmacy clinical programs and collaborates with healthcare providers and pharmacy staff, and places practice priority on the delivery of patient-centered care.
• Teamwork and Inter-professional Collaboration
• Presents to assigned areas on time and ready to work to ensure continuity of care between shifts, among pharmacy staff assignments, and across pharmacy practice areas. Supports other pharmacy operations and areas outside of current assignment. Works effectively with all members of the healthcare team to ensure the best outcome for the patient and demonstrates sensitivity to the perspective of the patient, caregiver, or health care colleague in all communications.
• Participates in departmental meetings and educational activities as assigned. Supports practice advancement initiatives, clinical research projects, and stewardship initiatives led by colleagues and peers. Maintains professional image by participating in shared governance committees, if applicable.
• Teaching, Training, Precepting, and Mentoring Mentors new staff and assists with training of all staff as requested. Supports experiential training of pharmacy trainees and mentors pharmacy students (IPPE and APPE) as requested/required. Demonstrates desire and aptitude for teaching and maintains competency to deliver effective evidence-based education to nurses, patients, students/learners and pharmacy team members.
• Quality Improvement, Regulatory Compliance, and Accreditation Supports quality improvement initiatives to improve medication-related processes, pharmacy systems, or patient care programs. Supports regulatory compliance initiatives and institutional accreditation processes.

Qualifications

The expertise and experiences youll need to succeed:

Education and Experience Required:

• Bachelor of Pharmacy, Doctor of Pharmacy, or other advanced pharmacy degree

Education and Experience Preferred:

PGY1 Pharmacy Residency OR Three years of clinical pharmacy experience

Licensure, Certification or Registration Required:

• Applicable State Pharmacy License
• BLS and ACLS

Licensure, Certification or Registration Preferred:

BLS, ACLS, PALS and/or NRP may be required for some facilities based on department requirements and pharmacist role, as defined by specialty unit. Refer to hiring manager for needs.

This facility is an equal opportunity employer and complies with federal, state and local anti-discrimination laws, regulations and ordinances.

Category: Pharmacy

Organization: AdventHealth East Orlando

Schedule: Part-time

Shift: 1 - Day

Req ID: 25026390

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not tolerate discrimination based on race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, age or disability/handicap with respect to recruitment, selection, placement, promotion, wages, benefits and other terms and conditions of employment.