Clinical Pharmacist | Step-Down ICU Focused | Inpatient Pharmacy | $15,000 Sign On Bonus

Clinical Pharmacist

Do you want to work at one of the top 100 hospitals in the nation? ChristianaCare is currently recruiting for a Clinical Pharmacist to join our team. Life is full of choices, and ChristianaCare recognizes whom you work for is an important decision. Choose an organization that values pharmacy services and provides the opportunity to impact the health of our community adhering to our Core Values and Behaviors guided by Excellence and Love.

This position is full-time (40 hours weekly, 8-hour shifts) that primarily works day shift providing direct patient care to high-acuity and step-down ICU patients. The role includes an evening shift component and a weekend/holiday requirement focused on ICU coverage. Weekend coverage is currently required every 4th weekend with an expectation of 1-2 holiday shifts per year.

Why ChristianaCare?

• At the Newark Campus, operations run through a network of inpatient pharmacists, including a central pharmacy and satellite pharmacies that focus on critical care, emergency medicine, heart failure, investigational drugs, neonates, oncology, pediatrics, perioperative services, sterile and non-sterile compounding, transplant, and trauma.
• Clinical services include robust acute and ambulatory care services. In the acute care setting, the department employs a decentralized model of practice, placing pharmacists directly into patient care units as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Generous PTO plan and 12-Week Fully Paid Parental Leave
• 403(b) with competitive employer match and Defined Contribution Retirement Plan
• Not-for-profit organization eligible with the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program
• Pharmacy Board Certification reimbursement

As a Clinical Pharmacist you will:

• Participate in direct patient care through daily interdisciplinary rounds.
• Manage specific medication therapies per approved policies (e.g., warfarin, aminoglycosides, vancomycin, IV to PO conversions, renal dose adjustments, indication-directed dosing adjustments, selection of surgical prophylaxis medications)
• Evaluate drug efficacy, monitor therapeutic goals and outcomes, and review for contraindications/precautions
• Order and evaluate laboratory tests per approved protocols to support medication therapy monitoring
• Identify opportunities during chart review for counseling and medication history completion
• Communicate recommendations directly with provider
• Electronically document interventions and provide sign out as appropriate
• Opportunities to serve as a preceptor for both pharmacy students and residents
• Provide drug information to allied healthcare professionals and fulfill provider-initiated pharmacy consults
• Assist with projects such as MUEs, drug monographs, and performance improvement activities
• Review and interpret provider orders and dispense medication
• Coordinate and supervise work-place activities
• Assume responsibility of the satellite pharmacies including the sterile product processing in the IV Admixture Service lab and OR pharmacy

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Pharmacy or PharmD degree from an accredited College of Pharmacy required
• ASHP-accredited pharmacy residency preferred or equivalent experience (3 years acute care)
• Board certification preferred
• Current licensure (or eligible to reciprocate) in the State of Delaware

About ChristianaCare:

ChristianaCare is one of the country's most dynamic health systems, centered on improving health outcomes, making high-quality care more accessible and lowering health care costs. ChristianaCare includes an extensive network of outpatient services, home health care, hospital care at home, medical aid units, three hospitals (1,300 beds). We provide a Level I trauma center, Level III neonatal intensive care unit, a comprehensive stroke center and regional centers of excellence in heart and vascular care, cancer care and women's health. We rank 21st in the nation for hospital admissions and 6th for admission of stroke patients. ChristianaCare is a not-for-profit teaching health system with our outstanding, data-powered care coordination service and a focus on population health and value-based care. ChristianaCare is shaping the future of health care!

If you 're inspired to make a difference, we invite you to become a ChristianaCare caregiver.

Hourly Pay Range: $58.26 - $93.22This pay rate/range represents ChristianaCare's good faith and reasonable estimate of compensation at the time of posting. The actual salary within this range offered to a successful candidate will depend on individual factors including without limitation skills, relevant experience, and qualifications as they relate to specific job requirements.

Christiana Care Health System is an equal opportunity employer, firmly committed to prohibiting discrimination, whose staff is reflective of its community, and considers qualified applicants for open positions without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity or expression, age, veteran status, disability, pregnancy, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.