Lead Pharmacist - Inpatient

Lead Pharmacist - Inpatient

Join Cleveland Clinic Mercy Hospital and experience world-class healthcare at its best. Officially becoming a full member of the Cleveland Clinic Health System in 2021, Mercy Hospital offers a wide variety of medical specialties to the communities in and around Stark County. Here, you will work alongside passionate and dedicated caregivers, receive endless support and appreciation, and build a rewarding career with one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world.

The Lead Pharmacist Inpatient provides clinical, operational, and administrative leadership within Mercy Hospital's 24/7 inpatient pharmacy, helping ensure the safe, efficient delivery of pharmacy services across the organization. This role combines direct patient care with leadership responsibilities, including medication order verification, IV room oversight, prescription verification, renal dose monitoring, sterile compounding support, and collaboration with the hospital's infusion and oncology services. In addition to operational and decentralized pharmacy coverage as needed, the Lead Pharmacist assists with scheduling, supports clinical operations and workflow optimization, contributes to pharmacy informatics initiatives, and serves as a resource for pharmacists, technicians, and interdisciplinary care teams to promote high-quality, patient-centered care.

A caregiver in this position will work a Monday through Friday schedule from 7:00am to 3:30pm and may provide coverage for other shifts as needed. Caregivers participate in an every fourth weekend rotation. No holiday or on-call responsibilities are required.

A caregiver who excels in this role will:

• Lead and coordinate work activities for assigned practice areas and provide feedback to caregivers regarding performance under the direction of the manager.
• Train and mentor caregivers and residents and precept students.
• Participate in interviewing and recommend selection of candidates.
• Triage issues to management and follow-up.
• Participate in operational tasks such as workflow oversight, process decision making, project implementation, and drug shortage management.
• Ensure and maintain quality control in regard to patient care and medication and equipment usage.
• Review and assess medication orders to identify, prevent, and resolve potential and actual drug related problems.
• Advise prescriber of medication related issues and recommend formulary alternatives when appropriate.
• Review, interpret, clarify, enter, and verify patient's information and medication orders for processing.
• Assist with health-system level decision-making related to practice area, committee work, and decision making for relevant policies.
• Provide drug information support for pertinent drug information questions.
• Provide management support and demonstrate leadership for assigned practice area.

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• PharmD or Bachelor's of Science in pharmacy from an accredited College of Pharmacy
• Current state licensure as a Registered Pharmacist (RPh) or eligible for reciprocation within 90 days of hire
• Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification through the American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross and completion of a Board of Pharmacy approved course in the administration of immunizations or certification within 90 days of hire if administering immunizations
• Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) or Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) Certifications through the American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross within one year of hire if responding to adult or pediatric cardiopulmonary arrest events
• Completion of a Health-system Pharmacy Administration and Leadership (HSPAL) PGY2 Residency OR completion of either a Post-Graduate Year 1 (PGY-1) or Post-Graduate Rear 2 Residency (PGY2) and one year of relevant pharmacy experience OR three years relevant pharmacy experience

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• Previous leadership experience

Physical Requirements:

• Typical physical demands include ability to perform functions of the job while reaching and stretching, and manual dexterity sufficient to perform computer functions of job.

Personal Protective Equipment:

• Follows Standard Precautions using personal protective equipment as required for procedures.

The policy of Cleveland Clinic Health System and its system hospitals (Cleveland Clinic Health System) is to provide equal opportunity to all of our caregivers and applicants for employment in our drug free environment. All offers of employment are followed by testing for controlled substances.

Cleveland Clinic Health System administers an influenza prevention program. You will be required to comply with this program, which will include obtaining an influenza vaccination on an annual basis or obtaining an approved exemption.

Decisions concerning employment, transfers and promotions are made upon the basis of the best qualified candidate without regard to color, race, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, status as a disabled or Vietnam era veteran or any other characteristic protected by law. Information provided on this application may be shared with any Cleveland Clinic Health System facility.

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