Clinical Pharmacist - Emergency Department

Full-Time Clinical Pharmacist, Emergency Department | UPMC Hamot

Join UPMC Hamot as a Full-Time Clinical Pharmacist and play a vital role in providing high-quality pharmaceutical care in a fast-paced clinical environment. This position is dedicated to supporting emergency medicine services while collaborating closely with physicians, nurses, and interdisciplinary healthcare team members to optimize patient outcomes.

Schedule: Full-time, Night Shift

• 7-on/7-off schedule
• 10-hour shifts (70 hours worked, paid for 80 hours)
• Shift hours: 9:30 PM to 7:30 AM
• Weekend and holiday rotation required

Preferred Experience

• Candidates with the following experience are strongly encouraged to apply:
• Acute care hospital pharmacy practice
• Emergency medicine or critical care pharmacy services
• Interdisciplinary collaboration with physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals
• Medication safety initiatives and regulatory compliance
• Clinical decision-making and evidence-based pharmacotherapy
• Pharmacy technology and workflow optimization

Preferred Qualifications

Completion of an ASHP-accredited PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency or a minimum of three years of clinical pharmacy experience

• Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) certification preferred
• Previous emergency medicine pharmacy experience preferred

Why Join UPMC Hamot?

• Opportunity to work within a nationally recognized, innovative health system
• Collaboration with multidisciplinary healthcare teams
• Active involvement in clinical and operational pharmacy initiatives
• Participation in quality improvement and patient safety programs
• Professional growth and development opportunities
• Exposure to advanced pharmacy technology and evolving clinical practices

Position Overview

The Clinical Pharmacist provides comprehensive pharmaceutical care services to patients within the emergency setting. This role works collaboratively with providers and clinical staff to ensure safe, effective, and evidence-based medication use. The pharmacist serves as a clinical resource, supports quality and safety initiatives, contributes to departmental goals, and promotes optimal patient outcomes through direct patient care and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Job title and salary will be determined based on qualifications and career ladder placement.

Responsibilities

Leads assigned patient service lines, clinical areas, and therapeutic programs.

Facilitates pharmaceutical care services, direct patient care programs, medication utilization systems within assigned services and care areas to assure drug utilization activities are aligned with patient care needs, evidence-based best practices, and regulatory standards.

Designs and implements stewardship activities and restriction/surveillance programs.

Tracks and evaluates assigned pharmacy programs for operational, quality, and financial efficiency and routinely benchmarks against local and national best practices.

Actively identifies practice related issues which require evaluation and facilitate clinical research projects, quality improvement initiatives, or healthcare provider education as needed to advance practice.

Develops and oversees policies and procedures for drug purchasing, drug usage, drug distribution, and drug control.

Assures pharmacy is an integral part of the health-care delivery system and facilitates enhancement and expansion of pharmacy services/programs.

• Delivers direct patient care and clinical practice, including decentralized and service-based programs.
• Maintains proficiency in decentralized pharmacy services and clinical pharmacy programs.
• Works as an active member of multidisciplinary team and collaborates with healthcare providers within decentralized patient care areas to provide patient-centered care
• Identifies high-risk patients and implements interventions to improve quality and safety.
• Makes appropriate evidence-based, patient-centered medication recommendations
• Participates in the management of medical emergencies.
• Provides discharge medication review, reconciliation, and counseling as appropriate.
• Provides pharmaceutical services throughout medical center.
• Maintains proficiency in hospital computer systems and medication ordering systems.
• Provides accurate, safe, timely, and appropriate medication therapy based on patient age and needs.

Completes critical patient monitoring and reviews patient profile/chart to identify, prevent, or mitigate drug-related problems, improper drug or dose selection, sub therapeutic dosage, over dosage, adverse drug reactions, drug interactions, failure to receive drugs, untreated indications, medication use without an indication, and treatment failures.

Communicates effectively and appropriately with healthcare providers and caregivers (physicians, nurses, etc.) and assures continuity of pharmaceutical care between shifts and among staff

• Actively participates in stewardship activities and restricted medication programs.
• Participates in pharmacy operations and medication dispensing

Maintains proficiency in and actively engages in operational programs, central dispensing pharmacies, satellite dispensing pharmacies, and specialty pharmacy areas as appropriate for job assignment.

Facilitates specialty medication procurement, ordering, and dispensing procedures including but not limited to chemotherapy, parenteral nutrition, controlled substances, etc. as appropriate for assignment

• Oversees pharmacy operations and technician practice/activities.
• Facilitates experiential education and practice advancement.
• Maintains proficiency in preceptor roles and actively emulates education/mentorship skills.

Develops student, resident, and staff training experiences/competencies and creates new relationships for teaching and training opportunities.

Identifies, designs, and implements improvements in the medication-use system to advance patient safety, maximize therapeutic outcomes, or control costs.

Graduate of an ACPE accredited College of Pharmacy

B.S. degree in Pharmacy Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree; PharmD preferred.

• Required: Current licensure as a Pharmacist in practicing state
• Completion of ASHP accredited PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency or 3 years clinical pharmacy experience
• Knowledge and expertise in advanced pharmacy practice and service, comprehensive medication management, and evidence-based medicine in specialized area appropriate for clinical assignments
• BPS Board Certification preferred.

Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances

• Pharmacist
• Act 34

UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran