Summary
Position Summary
Responsible for:
- Customer satisfaction
- Supervising and managing shift personnel and physical resources
- Assuring accurate dispensing or pharmaceuticals
- QC/PI/educational activities
- Exemplifying pharmaceutical care ideals
- Communicate with other healthcare personnel to optimize the medication management of a patient
Minimum Requirements
Education
Experience
- Prior experience in health system pharmacy including experience with computer systems and
their applications to the clinical and operational aspects of pharmaceutical care required.
License/Registration/Certifications
- Current license (or eligible) to practice pharmacy in S.C.
- Pharmacy extern will work under supervision of licensed pharmacist until license obtained.
Preferred Requirements
Preferred Education
Preferred Experience
Preferred License/Registration/Certifications
Core Job Responsibilities
- Follows attendance, dress, education (including continuing education) and safety polices
- Complies with appropriate regulatory agencies' requirements, e.g. DHEC, DEA, etc.
- Directs staff and encourages teamwork to ensure department workload duties are correctly assigned throughout the staff on a day to day basis
- Completes appropriate formulary substitutions in order to optimize physical resources
- Initiates and documents appropriate follow-up on problem areas identified on departmental inspections by serving as a resource person for the department
- Participates in departmental and hospital activities such as, departmental in-services, participation in hospital and/or departmental committees. Participates in departmental and hospital activities on performance Improvement
- Completes competency for IV medication and IV Room competency and is assessed of aseptic technique for sterile compounding preparations within established departmental guidelines
- Exercises professional judgment, discretion, and initiates communication with physicians, nurses, and other members of the health care team when there is question of appropriateness or a recommendation for more appropriate therapy to ensure safe medication use and to minimize the risk of medication errors
- Alerts and/or advises physician/nursing of drug-drug interaction, food-drug interaction. Able to identify potential adverse drug reactions, document, and intervene as needed
- Provides clinical dosing/monitoring services on identified high-risk medications and adjusts/advises on result of data that are outside the appropriate parameters/guidelines
- Other duties as assigned
- Works with other health care providers, including participating in rounds and other patient care activities, to optimize medication regimens using evidence-based medicine and standards of care.
- Expand and/or optimize departmental services
- Precept pharmacy students.
- Performs quality improvement projects. Demonstrates the ability to implement new programs/improvements with minimal supervisory assistance and develop metrics to assess the impact of changes made.
Additional Information
Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System (SRHS) offers a full spectrum of services through six hospital campuses: Spartanburg Medical Center, Spartanburg Medical Center -- Mary Black Campus, Pelham Medical Center, Cherokee Medical Center, Spartanburg Hospital for Restorative Care and Union Medical Center. SRHS also includes Ellen Sagar Nursing Center and Woodruff Manor. SRHS provides unparalleled cancer care through Gibbs Cancer Center & Research Institute, with locations in Spartanburg, Greer, Union and Gaffney. The multidisciplinary Medical Group of the Carolinas has more than 600 physicians across Upstate South Carolina and western North Carolina. SRHS employs more than 9,000 associates and offers outpatient surgery centers and a Level I Trauma Center.
Founded on Aug. 29, 1921, as Spartanburg General Hospital, Spartanburg Regional celebrates over 100 years of excellence.
