Clinical Pharmacist

Clinical Pharmacist - Full-Time

UPMC Hamot | Erie, PA

UPMC Hamot is seeking a full-time Clinical Pharmacist to join our team. This role follows a 7-on/7-off rotation, including every other weekend coverage, with scheduled hours of 9:00 AM - 8:30 PM.

Preferred Qualifications

• PGY1 Pharmacy Residency or
• Minimum of 3 years of hospital or ambulatory pharmacy experience

This position is a hybrid decentralized/centralized role, offering a dynamic practice environment that supports both direct patient care and central pharmacy operations.

During daytime hours (Monday-Friday, the pharmacist will provide decentralized clinical support on our 6 South Observation (CVTS post-operative unit, with opportunities including:

• Pharmacokinetic consult management
• Total parenteral nutrition (TPN management
• Participation in interdisciplinary care coordination rounds
• Medication discharge counseling

Evening and weekend shifts are fully centralized within the main pharmacy, supporting:

• Order verification
• Drug information requests
• Core pharmacy operations

Why Join Us?

Be part of a collaborative, multidisciplinary team in a hospital environment that prioritizes patient safety, innovation, and professional growth. We offer advanced technology and a strong operational infrastructure, including:

• EPIC electronic health record (EHR system
• Full pharmacy automation (XR2 robots, medication carousels, ADCs, and controlled substance management systems
• Full USP compliance (USP 797, USP 800, USP 795
• Career ladder opportunities and involvement in clinical service expansion

Clinical Pharmacists are responsible and accountable for delivering safe, effective, and efficient comprehensive medication management for specialized patient populations. This role integrates both clinical and operational pharmacy services to support optimal medication therapy outcomes.

Clinical Pharmacists collaborate closely with physicians, nurses, and interdisciplinary care teams to deliver patient-centered care while ensuring appropriate integration of pharmacy services within the care process.

Key responsibilities include:

• Providing comprehensive and individualized clinical pharmacy services
• Assessing patient-specific medication needs, incorporating age- and disease-specific considerations
• Monitoring and adjusting therapy based on patient response
• Identifying, preventing, and mitigating medication-related adverse events
• Supporting both centralized and decentralized medication-use systems

Additional expectations include:

• Serving as a departmental resource and liaison to healthcare teams and external partners
• Participating in clinical research and practice advancement initiatives
• Supporting and/or leading quality improvement and regulatory compliance efforts
• Contributing to medication-use process improvements through data analysis and intervention evaluation
• Providing education and training to healthcare staff, pharmacy students, and residents (serving as a preceptor, as applicable

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