Clinical Pharmacist - Rehabilitation Medicine Services

Inpatient Clinical Pharmacist - Rehabilitation Medicine Service

The UW Medical Center-Montlake Pharmacy Department is seeking a highly-motivated Inpatient Clinical Pharmacist - Rehabilitation Medicine Service. This is a unique opportunity for a pharmacist to work with inpatient Rehab Medicine which provides care to varied patient populations including those who are recovering from cardiac surgery, bone marrow and solid organ transplant, or traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries. There is also involvement with our inpatient Neurology service.

Our clinical pharmacists provide extensive pharmaceutical care and are a vital part of the inpatient multidisciplinary patient care team. In addition to direct patient care responsibilities, our pharmacists provide drug therapy consults, participate in treatment protocol development, provide patient/family/staff education, facilitate transitions of care, precept pharmacy students and residents, and perform duties of a Pharmacist 2.

Primary job responsibilities include ensuring appropriate drug therapy and nutrition, evaluating pharmacotherapeutic regimens for effectiveness and adverse drug events, utilizing the medical record and other appropriate documentation systems to communicate with healthcare professionals and to document specific pharmacotherapeutic recommendations, providing drug information and education to medical teams, nursing, and dietitian staff, providing patient/family counseling and education, updating patient medication lists and reconciling medication orders at each visit, providing primary preceptorship of pharmacy residents and student pharmacists, and performing duties of a Pharmacist 2.

Required position qualifications include two years of experience in pharmacy practice. Months spent in the completion of an American Society of Health System Pharmacists accredited residency training program may substitute month-for-month for the experience. Legal requirement is a State of Washington Pharmacist License.

About UW Medical Center-Montlake: UW Medical Center is an acute care academic medical center located in Seattle with two campuses: Montlake and Northwest. As the No. 1 hospital in Seattle and Washington State since 2012 (U.S. News & World Report) and nationally ranked in seven specialties, UW Medical Center prides itself on compassionate patient care as well as its pioneering medical advances. The UW Medical Center-Montlake campus is located on the edge of the beautiful UW campus which includes many amenities available to our staff as well as very convenient public transit options including the Sound Transit's light rail station across the street.

About UW Medicine: UW Medicine is Washington's only health system that includes a top-rated medical school and an internationally recognized research center. UW Medicine's mission is to improve the health of the public by advancing medical knowledge, providing outstanding primary and specialty care to the people of the region, and preparing tomorrow's physicians, scientists and other health professionals. All across UW Medicine, our employees collaborate to perform the highest quality work with integrity and compassion and to create a respectful, welcoming environment where every patient, family, student and colleague is valued and honored.