Behavioral Health Pharmacist Specialist - Sharp Grossmont Hospital - Variable Shift - Full Time

Hours : Shift Start Time: 8 AM Shift End Time: 4:30 PM AWS Hours Requirement: 8/40 - 8 Hour Shift Additional Shift Information: Weekend Requirements: No Weekends On-Call Required: No Hourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum): $77.910 - $100.530 - $112.590 The stated pay scale reflects the range that Sharp reasonably expects to pay for this position.  The actual pay rate and pay grade for this position will be dependent on a variety of factors, including an applicant’s years of experience, unique skills and abilities, education, alignment with similar internal candidates, marketplace factors, other requirements for the position, and employer business practices.   What You Will Do To provide the professional, clinical and technical knowledge, and skills and expertise required for the provision of comprehensive pharmaceutical care that supports the mission, values and philosophy of Pharmacy Services and Sharp HealthCare. Required Qualifications Other : Education pursuant to licensure requirements. 1 Year Postdoctoral experience in a hospital pharmacy environment. AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association -REQUIRED California Pharmacist License - CA State Board of Pharmacy -REQUIRED BPS Board Certified Psychiatric Pharmacist (BCPP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties -REQUIRED Preferred Qualifications Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) Completed a PGY-1 Acute Care Residency. Completed a PGY-2 Psychiatric Care Residency. Other Qualification Requirements Mental Health First Aid Certification - Preferred Essential Functions Clinical advisory services Demonstrates pro-active involvement with advisory service activities and displays follow-through and contribution to advisory service outcomes as evidenced by (including but not limited to): (e.g. Renal Target Monitoring, Antibiotic Surveillance Team, Medication Usage Evaluations and other programs or initiatives specific to the entity). Qualitative participation in clinical intervention program through consistent issue identification, provision of reliable best practice/literature based recommendations, follow-through with prescribers and other clinicians. Quantitative work, measured by the completion and submission of electronic forms consistent with the average established for each pharmacy department/shift. Consistently responds to and documents drug information requests promptly and professionally. Participates in ongoing data collection for MUE. Reviews patient medication profiles for appropriateness of drug therapy, therapeutic duplications, allergies, weight, height, minimum and maximum dosing guidelines, age specific requirements, renal and hepatic function, drug interactions and other pertinent factors to individualize patients' medication dosing requirements within boundaries approved by committees. Identifies, resolves and documents prescribing, formulary and therapeutic issues through integration of patient variables, clinical status, drug knowledge, and professional judgment. Communicates with nurses and physicians in a timely manner about therapeutic issues or problems. Follows up on formulary compliance issues and/or communicates issues to management. Participates in Code-Blue emergencies as required, mixes and labels medications as needed, and provides information; Assures that pharmacy code-blue billing is completed where appropriate and restocks medications. Consistently participating in financial pillar/cost savings measures (e.g. IV to PO conversions, ER/XL to IR adjustments as indicated, formulary adherence, etc). Assists and oversees medication shortages in the BH arena. Clinical Consult services Certification/Recertification, Participation, Knowledge: Demonstrates competency in performing formal clinical consults, and patient monitoring practices as approved by the P&T Committee: Has met minimum certification/recertification requirements as outlined in the Pharmacy Certification Process for Formal pharmacotherapy Consult and Advisory Services policy and procedure for consult services offered at entity. Participates in Clinical Consult Services for example, Pharmacokinetics, Heparin, Pain Management, and other services specific to the entity. Demonstrates knowledge of consult services as evidenced by attainment of consult service goals and proper documentation of actions, recommendations, and patient outcomes on the pharmacy monitoring forms. Performs by leaving concise, objective, legible, and professional notes in the patient's clinical chart. Consistently demonstrates ability to complete formal clinical workload assigned during shift as evidenced by completing all consults and advisory services in a timely manner. Behavioral Health Pharmaceutical Care Provide comprehensive pharmaceutical care to Behavioral Health Patient: Participate in daily patient care activities such as reviewing medication orders for accuracy and appropriateness. Verifies appropriate utilization, dosing/dose conversions, scheduling, and route/site of administration for high-cost agents, including long-acting injectable antipsychotics. Provide therapeutic drug monitoring for targeted agents or agents with narrow therapeutic index and supports prescribers in dose adjustments as indicated. Monitors and intervenes on psychotropic medication regimes which qualify as polypharmacy or are associated with the development of tardive dyskinesia. Discuss medication order clarifications with the psychiatrist or admitting prescriber and inform others of medication order changes. Oversees medication schedule and delivery in the Outpatient Long Acting Injection clinic. Documents adherence to program rules for long-acting injectable inpatient hospital free trial programs. Monitor drug therapy to evaluate appropriateness of use, dose, dosage form, regimen, route, therapeutic duplication, and drug interactions. Provide pharmacokinetic consultations and other do