Job Description:

Job Description

Schedule: PRN (as needed)

Shift Details: 8-hour shifts between the hours of 9:00 am – 8:00 pm Monday through Friday with holiday rotation and no weekends

Location: Discharge Pharmacy, Saint Joseph Hospital, Denver, Colorado

Benefits Eligible: Yes - Link to Benefit Details

Top candidates will have retail pharmacy experience.

Join our Discharge Pharmacy Team at Saint Joseph Hospital in Denver, Colorado, where pharmacists play an important role in helping patients transition safely from the hospital to home. You’ll provide accurate, timely medication therapy, support medication access, counsel patients on their prescriptions, and collaborate with a dependable pharmacy team to deliver compassionate care at discharge. If you enjoy a fast-paced retail pharmacy environment and making a direct impact on patients at a critical point in their care, you’ll feel right at home here.

Saint Joseph Hospital was founded in Denver in 1873 by the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth as the first private teaching hospital in Colorado. Today, it remains the largest private teaching hospital in Denver. The hospital provides a tradition of healthcare that includes compassionate caregivers, stellar clinical expertise and active clinical partnerships with Kaiser Permanente, National Jewish Health and community physicians. Saint Joseph's new state-of-the-art hospital opened in December 2014.

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Essential Functions

• Assists the pharmacist in collecting clinical and other patient information and maintaining appropriate records as required by regulation and policy.
• Utilizes pharmacy technology effectively to prepare medication orders for dispensing, performs calculations as necessary, and compounds medications for accurate compounding as appropriate to practice site, in accordance with state law, policies, procedures, and protocols.
• Attains appropriate supervision and accuracy checks by the pharmacist(s) and clearly understands when a pharmacist must verify tasks and activities.
• Accurately fills and maintains medication supplies including verifying and monitoring controlled substance inventories to ensure security, accuracy, cost effectiveness, and 340B/Charging management as required to practice site.
• Communicates with caregivers regarding responsibilities, identified concerns, and participates in quality and patient safety initiatives, identifying potential safety hazards that may create problems for patients and/or staff and takes appropriate actions to escalate items to the pharmacist for review as appropriate based on urgency, regulations, and scope.

Skills

• Technical competency
• Regulatory compliance
• Financial awareness
• Service delivery
• Job performance
• Reliability and Attendance
• Communication
• Organization
• Computer proficiency
• Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification as appropriate to practice site.

• Qualifications

  Minimum

  • Doctor of Pharmacy or Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy degree from an accredited institution (education verified).
  • License to practice pharmacy in the state of practice and dispense controlled substances
  • Current knowledge of state and federal regulations and statutes regarding the practice of pharmacy in the state of practice.
  • Effective communication, people management, and project management skills.
  • Immunization certification if applicable to practice site needs 

  Preferred

  • Previous experience working in an integrated healthcare delivery system
  • Board Certification
  • Health System Residency

• Physical Requirements

  • Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, documents, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess customer needs.
  • Frequent interactions with providers, colleagues, customers, patients/clients and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, needs, and issues quickly and accurately.
  • Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate supplies and equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use for typing, accessing needed information, etc.

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The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience. 

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