About this role
Job Summary
Provides age-specific pharmaceutical care and basic clinical services for assigned patient care areas. Contributes to goals, programs, QA, PI and other activities for their unit/department/hospital. Performs other duties as assigned.
Responsibilities
- Manages medication orders including age-specific considerations to ensure medication safety (i.e. processing, preparation and dispensing).
- Participates in pharmacotherapeutic plan processes.
- Manages own pharmacy practice effectively.
- Supervises and directs healthcare team members.
- Processes and prepares sterile products for dispensing.
- Contributes to goals, programs and report cards for unit/department/hospital.
- Provides drug information.
- Provides education.
- Participates actively on inter and intra-departmental committees.
- Maximizes safety and efficiency through appropriate use of automation.
- Completes assigned goals.
Specifications
Experience
Minimum Required
- One year of hospital pharmacy experience.
Preferred/Desired
- One year of hospital pharmacy experience.
Education
Minimum Required
- Bachelor of Science (B.S.) or Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.).
Preferred/Desired
Training
Minimum Required
Preferred/Desired
- BLS and/or ACLS certification, advanced post-graduate training or equivalent clinical experience.
Special Skills
- Computer literacy, interpersonal skills, general clinical awareness.
Minimum Required
- Basic computer literacy and communication skills. Cognitive ability to interpret and understand written medication orders and reference materials; accuracy and attention to detail required.
Preferred/Desired
- Advanced computer order entry literacy, Microsoft Office applications, clinical experience. High-level cognitive ability to interpret and understand written medication orders and reference materials.
Licensure
- Current, active, unrestricted pharmacy licensure for appropriate state or eligibility for licensure. Must acquire licensure within 120 days of hire date.
Minimum Required
- PHARMACIST-FOR APPROPRIATE STATE
Preferred/Desired
Other facts
About Baptist
Baptist Memorial Health Care is one of the country’s largest not-for-profit health care systems and the largest provider of Medicaid in the region. Baptist offers a full continuum of care to communities throughout the Mid-South and consistently ranks among the top integrated health care networks in the country. The health care system comprises 24 affiliate hospitals in West Tennessee, Mississippi and East Arkansas; more than 5,400 affiliated physicians; Baptist Medical Group, a multispecialty physician group with more than 900 providers; home, hospice and psychiatric care; minor medical centers and clinics; a network of surgery, rehabilitation and other outpatient centers; and an education system highlighted by Baptist Health Sciences University (formerly Baptist College of Health Sciences). Baptist employs more than 21,000 people, and in fiscal year 2022 contributed more than $455 million in community benefit and uncompensated care to the communities it serves. For more information, please visit www.baptistonline.org or follow us on Facebook or Instagram.
What you'll do
- The pharmacist provides age-specific pharmaceutical care and basic clinical services while managing medication orders and ensuring medication safety. They also supervise healthcare team members and contribute to departmental goals and activities.
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