PRN Pharmacist - PPMC

Description

Penn Medicine is dedicated to our tripartite mission of providing the highest level of care to patients, conducting innovative research, and educating future leaders in the field of medicine. Working for this leading academic medical center means collaboration with top clinical, technical and business professionals across all disciplines.

Today at Penn Medicine, someone will make a breakthrough. Someone will heal a heart, deliver hopeful news, and give comfort and reassurance. Our employees shape our future each day. Are you living your life's work?

Summary: Penn Presbyterian Medical Center (PPMC) has an outstanding opportunity for a Clinical Pharmacist Ambulatory Retail to join the Pharmacy team and work alongside some of the best medical providers in Philadelphia.

PPMC, the Philadelphia region’s top Level 1 Trauma Center, has an outstanding record of medical accomplishments, placing our patients at the core of everything we do. The “how” is important to us – how we treat our patients and each other, how we raise the bar every day to achieve excellence and how we contribute to the health of the community around us. PPMC has a community feel. The larger academic and research-based institution that is Penn Medicine. By joining PPMC, you get the best of both worlds and a genuine commitment to your professional growth and development.

Penn Medicine is dedicated to our tripartite mission of providing the highest level of care to patients, conducting innovative research, and educating future leaders in the field of medicine. Working for this leading academic medical center means collaboration with top clinical, technical, and business professionals across all disciplines.

Today at Penn Medicine, someone will make a breakthrough. Someone will heal a heart, deliver hopeful news, and give comfort and reassurance. Our employees shape our future each day. Are you living your life's work?

Summary:

• To provide pharmaceutical care in order to assure the safe, effective, and cost-effective use of drugs for Penn Medicine patients in an outpatient setting.

Responsibilities:

• • Timely completion of all work assignments.• Autonomous work organization and completion.• Communicates appropriately with immediate coworkers and all other health care staff: Pharmacists, Nurses, Patients and Students, and listens carefully to others in order to respond appropriately.• Calculates correctly and accurately amount of medication to be dispensed based on days supply allowed, age, etc.• Monitors patient profiles, drug utilization, and insurance carrier messages to assure medication compliance, patient specific parameters are considered in medication preparation.• Participates in Entity and Department wide initiatives for Patient /Employee safety.• Demonstrates an awareness of patient/ employee safety when carrying out daily responsibilities of their position.• Validation of annual competencies required for the position as assigned.• Complies in all activities with accreditation, legal, regulatory, and safety requirements for specific practice setting(s).• Complies with all third-party insurance plan rules and regulations.• Assumes responsibility for compliance with all health system policies and procedures.• Participates in the established process for assessing, managing, and reporting ADEs.• Demonstrates proficiency on all pharmacy systems applicable to individual role.• Provides support for other staff members toward their overall effectiveness.• Trains new hire pharmacists, interns, and technicians.• Contributes to the achievement of departmental goals.• Takes responsibility for their own professional development.• Exhibit professionalism at all times to include a clean professional image, punctual arrival to work and return from breaks.• Operational Staff:- Escalates to embedded office team members when necessary- Prepares and dispenses medications using appropriate techniques to ensure accuracy, optimal outcomes of drug therapies- Keeps active, accurate inventory in work area and appropriately restocks area with returned medications per policy to assure workstations are organized at all times• Clinical Staff:- Designs, recommends, monitors, evaluates and documents patient and age-specific pharmacotherapy

Minimum Requirements:

• State Pharmacist License required

• PharmD or RPH in Pharmacy

• PGY1 Residency Training in Pharmacy [Required for Clinical Pharmacists supporting ambulatory pharmacy in a clinic setting.]

• PGY2 Residency Training in Ambulatory Care / Pharmacotherapy, etc preferred

• PA Authorization to Administer Injectables License preferred NJ Authorized Immunization License preferred

We believe that the best care for our patients starts with the best care for our employees. Our employee benefits programs help our employees get healthy and stay healthy. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits program that includes one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region. Penn Medicine employees are actively engaged and committed to our mission. Together we will continue to make medical advances that help people live longer, healthier lives.

Live Your Life's Work

We are an Equal Opportunity employer. Candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic or sexual violence victim status, citizenship status, military status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law.

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