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Staff Position

Pharmacist
SSM Health
Saint Louis, MO

$21-32/hour

Overview

  • Start DateASAP
  • Facility Information
    Short Term Acute Care317 bedsEpic Systems Corporation

Pay

Estimated pay
$21-32/hour

Description

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES 
  • Collaborates with medical staff, nursing, administration and pharmacy director to maintain productive and effective relationships to ensure the safe and effective delivery of pharmacy services across the continuum of care. Ensures conflict resolution, group dynamics and facilitate significant projects. Participates, coordinates and/or leads committees and/or functions as appropriate and/or required by the organization.  
  • Develops and implements quality improvement initiatives, fiscal controls, facilitates human and capital resources, formulary management, and risk management functions for the clinical pharmacy program.  
  • Remains up to date on advances and changes in pharmacy related subjects through continuing education to possess most up-to-date knowledge of meet clients' needs. Provides input and recommendations to revise clinical guidelines and or procurement of educational materials to assure best practices. Maintains competency and skills and is able to perform duties of the staff pharmacist when needed. 
  • Recruits, interviews, promotes, disciplines, and terminates pharmacy staff. Sets performance standards and goals for direct reports and the department. Evaluates and counsels staff on their performance. Monitors workload statistics to ensure appropriate staffing levels. 
  • Works with pharmacy buyer, medical staff, and director to evaluate and select supplies that optimize product selection and pharmacy purchasing. 
  • Develops and presents continuing education programs for pharmacists, physicians, nurses, students and others to assure providers have current knowledge of therapies and risks. Procures or creates educational materials for providers and for patient education.  
  • Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
  • Performs other duties as assigned. 

EDUCATION 

  • Pharmacy degree (Pharm.D; Bachelor of Pharmacy) from accredited school of pharmacy 

EXPERIENCE 

  • Five years’ experience, with two years’ in leadership

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

  • Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
  • Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
  • Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
  • Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
  • Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
  • Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
  • Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
  • Rare climbing.
Manages the clinical pharmacy, including developing, monitoring, evaluating and coordinating clinical pharmacy services that promote desirable patient outcomes. Develops and implements policies, procedures, process guidelines, and protocols to ensure the provision of safe, effective and economical pharmacotherapy for all patients in the hospital, ensures compliance with clinical practice standards.
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Facility

SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital

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  • Short Term Acute Care
  • 317 beds
  • Epic Systems Corporation
ADDRESS1201 S Grand BlvdSaint Louis, MO 63104
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Employer

SSM Health

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Culture
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About
SSM Health has grown to be one of the largest integrated health systems in the country, because leadership, administration and providers work closely together to find solutions to the most pressing needs in medical care today. Collectively, our knowledge and resources are combined to innovate, optimize workflows and allow for better care delivery and patient interactions. Physicians and leadership engage in regular discussions designed to standardize practices that yield better outcomes across our system. Physicians, providers and health care leaders seeking the stability and resources of a large, reputable integrated health system, as well as the collegiality and respect of peers and the rewards of practicing in a faith-based organization, choose SSM Health as their ideal practice setting. SSM Health's 23 hospitals, more than 290+ physician offices and outpatient care sites, and 10 post-acute facilities offer vast opportunities to shape the future of health care throughout Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wisconsin.
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About Saint Louis, MO

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Cost of Living
  • The cost of living in Saint Louis is lower than the national average, making it an affordable city for travel nurses.
  • Wages generally match up with the lower cost of living.
Weather
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Transportation
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Demographics
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  • Common health issues include heart disease and obesity.
  • There is a large population of travel nurses due to the presence of multiple healthcare facilities.
Things to Do
  • Saint Louis offers a variety of activities including a vibrant restaurant scene, art museums like the Saint Louis Art Museum, live music venues, sports events such as baseball games at Busch Stadium, and outdoor attractions like the Missouri Botanical Garden and Forest Park.
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