Clinical Pharmacist Specialist - Critical Care
Full-time, first shift
Clinical Pharmacist Specialists are responsible and accountable for the provision of safe, effective, and prompt medication therapy. Through various assignments within the department, they provide support of centralized and decentralized medication use systems as well as deliver optimal medication therapy to patients within their specialty. All pharmacists are responsible for drug preparation and distribution for medications; evaluating, inputting and verification of medication orders; assisting providers and other health care professionals by serving as a drug information resource; monitoring and managing medication regimens per protocol or per consult; and managing pharmacy inventory.
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree required.
Graduate of an accredited College of Pharmacy required: If designated as the AMS committee (co-)leader, one of the following is required: Board Certification in Infectious Diseases within 3 years of hire or Certification/education, such as that offered by nationally recognized antimicrobial stewardship education programs, within 3 years of hire or Completion of PGY-2 Infectious Diseases ASHP-accredited Pharmacy Residency.
Current, active pharmacist license issued by the Kentucky Board of Pharmacy required.
A minimum of three years of relevant job-related experience is required; however, completion of a PGY-1 or PGY-2 ASHP-accredited pharmacy residency in the applicable area of practice may be considered in lieu of this experience.
Must obtain ACLS (if required to attend codes) within 6 months
Must obtain Board Certification within 1 year
Benefits:
Tuition Assistance reimbursement program
Company paid Maternity and Paternity leave
Bereavement Leave (includes pets)
Paid Time Off available upon hire
Employee Assistance Program
Retirement plans with company match
Work Experience
Education
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.
Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.
Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.
Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.
Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
