Staff Pharmacist PRN

• Salary Range: $58.90 to $88.34 per hour, based on relevant years of experience
• Location: Larimer county, Colorado at our Longview Campus
• Status: As needed

The salary range for this position is SummitStone’s good faith belief and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation for this position at the time of the posting. SummitStone may ultimately offer more or less than the posted range. The compensation offered to the successful applicant may vary based on factors including the applicant’s education, training, skills, experiences, and other job-related information and how relevant those are to SummitStone’s needs, aspirations, organizational priorities, and the evolving needs and delivery of services to the community that it serves.

Role Overview:

Responsible for supporting inpatient and outpatient pharmacy services. Review and interpret prescription orders and perform drug utilization reviews to identify potential interactions or inaccuracies. Ensure accurate dispensing of medications, oversee work of support staff, providing pharmaceutical information to other healthcare professionals, monitor drug therapies, and provide pharmaceutical expertise to patients on the safe use of medications. The role will also be responsible for interdisciplinary rounds and comprehensive medication reviews of all clients admitted to our inpatient units.

Essential Duties:

• Prepares medications by reviewing and interpreting provider orders and completing a drug utilization review for each medication, ensuring medication is safe and appropriate for each patient based on indication and patient-specific factors. Helps with outpatient operations including data verification, filling of meds, product verification and point of sale medication dispensing.
• Ensures efficient and proper dispensing of medications – verifies correct patient, correct medication, correct dose, correct directions, and correct quantity.
• Verification of all meds ordered during inpatient stay.
• Completes comprehensive medication reviews for clients being admitted to one of our units.
• Assures that inventory levels are maintained at their most efficient and effective levels.
• Works with other mental health providers to create and update patient care plans during rounds and as needed, ensuring appropriate medication use, including MAT (Medication Assisted Treatment), acute psychiatric meds and withdrawal treatment medications.
• Conducts quality assurance monitoring and auditing to demonstrate compliance with inpatient and department policy and procedures, regulatory, and accreditation standards.
• Counseling patients on medications at discharge and during stay, providing information on drug interactions, side effects, and dosage and storage of medications.
• Assesses quality of services delivered and coordinates client care services with medical and clinical staff, and other programs/departments as needed.
• Complies with state and federal drug laws as regulated by the State Board of Pharmacy, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Food and Drug Administration by maintaining records of controlled substances, removing outdated and damaged drugs from the pharmacy inventory, supervising the work results of support personnel, maintaining current registration, studying existing and new legislation, anticipating legislation and advising management on needed actions. Maintains established procedures concerning quality assurance, security of controlled substances, and disposal of hazardous waste drugs.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Licensed Pharmacist in Colorado required

Preferred Qualifications:

SummitStone will take into consideration a combination of an applicant’s education, training, skills, experiences, and other job-related information and how relevant those are to SummitStone’s needs, aspirations, organizational priorities, and the evolving needs and delivery of services to the community that it serves. The position posting describes the minimum and preferred qualifications for position and, beyond those, the candidate is responsible for making a compelling case in support of their application.

Longview Campus is the new Acute Care Behavioral Health facility which serves Larimer County residents in need of urgent help with mental health and/or substance use disorders. SummitStone has the privilege of partnering closely with Larimer County on this venture. For more information click HERE.

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Questions? Please email us at hiring@summitstonehealth.org.

This position will be open for a minimum of three days and/or until a top candidate is identified.