Pharmacist Inpatient

Pharmacist

It's more than a career, it's a calling MO-SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital - Lake Saint Louis

Worker Type: PRN

Job Highlights: Join a team where your work matters every moment, every patient, every community. At SSM Health, you’ll be empowered to grow, supported to thrive, and inspired to make a lasting impact.

In this role, you will provide hands-on support in a fast-paced environment where every shift makes a direct impact on patients and families. Your attention to detail, compassion, and ability to work closely with various teams will help create a safer, smoother care experience. If you want to grow in a collaborative care setting, this role is perfect for you.

PRN:

• Minimum expectation (2 shifts per 4-week schedule block.)
• Initial schedule: One weekend per month plus any additional available shifts.
• Shift start times may be 6am, 7am, 1:30pm, or 8pm.
• All shifts are 8 hours in length, except for the overnight shift, which is 11 hours.
• Fixed weekend rotation from August through December, followed by a variable schedule based on department needs.
• Fully onsite position.
• On-call is not required, but flexibility and availability at short notice are preferred.

Inpatient Pharmacy Experience Preferred.

Job Summary: Provides pharmaceutical care to patients, verifies medication orders, compounds and dispenses pharmaceuticals in accordance with federal, state and local regulations and hospital policy. Serves as a resource to other healthcare professionals including pharmacy students and residents and ensures that patient care meets standards of safety and effectiveness. Oversees the duties of the pharmacy technicians and interns.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

• Ensures safety and appropriateness of medication therapy through order verification, dispensing, home medication reconciliation, chart review, patient counseling, lab value monitoring and dose/therapy adjustment as applicable. Documents medication related plans and interventions in electronic medical record.
• Provides clinical consultation delivering best-practice, evidence-based and complete information to practitioners. Makes recommendations and encourages safe and cost-effective pharmacotherapy for patients through multi-disciplinary collaboration.
• Oversees the medication dispensing process to ensure accurate and timely delivery of optimal pharmacotherapy to patients. This includes supervision of pharmacy technicians and/or interns who support the role of the pharmacist in the drug delivery system.
• Precept pharmacy students and residents, as applicable.
• Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education:

• Pharmacy degree (Pharm.D; Bachelor of Pharmacy) from accredited school of pharmacy

Experience:

• No experience required

Physical Requirements:

• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Rare climbing.

Required Professional License and/or Certifications:

• Resuscitation Certification Requirement: Basic Life Support Healthcare Provider (BLS HCP) required within 90 day of employment. Other resuscitation certifications may be required dependent on department. State of Work Location: Illinois
• Pharmacist, Registered - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR)
• State of Work Location: Missouri Pharmacist - Missouri Division of Professional Registration
• State of Work Location: Oklahoma Pharmacist - Oklahoma State Board of Pharmacy
• State of Work Location: Wisconsin Pharmacist - Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services

Work Shift: Variable Shift (United States of America)

Job Type: Employee

Department: 3901000023 Pharmacy Scheduled Weekly Hours: 0

SSM Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. SSM Health provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.