ClinicalPharmacist-Contingent

**Overview:** **Job Description Summary:** Job Profile Summary Serves as an integral member of the multidisciplinary healthcare team, accountable for delivering comprehensive, evidence-based, and patient-centered pharmacotherapy services across assigned practice areas. Integrates direct patient care, medication safety, clinical decision-making, transitions of care, and interprofessional collaboration to optimize outcomes for patients from birth through 21 years of age and select adult populations. Advances care through teaching and precepting, quality improvement, and professional scholarship. **Job Description:** **Essential Functions:** * Serves as a member of the patient care team as the pharmacotherapy expert to prospectively recommend and evaluate individualized drug therapy, makes recommendations to achieve best outcomes in an evidence-based and patient-specific manner while considering pharmacoeconomic principles, and prospectively identifies potential adverse drug reactions, drug-drug, disease and drug-food interactions, and incompatibilities affecting patient outcomes. * Documents direct patient care, clinical, operational, and financial outcomes and activities appropriately in the medical record; operationalizes recommendations through order verification to ensure timely and accurate medication delivery in a form appropriate for the patient. * Focuses on accurate maintenance of the medication list, ensures accurate and timely communication to the multidisciplinary team, other pharmacists, and patient/family regarding medication-related needs; and participates in the development and coordination of patient-specific teaching and transitions of care services. * Provides appropriate handoffs for pharmacists and other healthcare providers to follow up on anticipated pharmacotherapy needs, including medication changes. Collaborates with other members of the pharmacy team to assure continuity of care and consistency of practice. * Participates in hospital and/or