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Full-Time Clinical Pharmacist - Emergency Department | UPMC HamotSchedule: Full-Time, Evening Shift
Hours: 2:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
Weekends: Rotating weekend coverage, typically approximately 1 in every 6 weekends
Holidays: Holiday rotation in accordance with Pharmacy Department requirements
UPMC Hamot is seeking a
Full-Time Clinical Pharmacist to support the Emergency Department. This is a dedicated clinical pharmacy position designed for a pharmacist who thrives in a fast-paced, high-acuity environment and wants to practice directly alongside an interdisciplinary Emergency Department team.
This is
not simply an order-verification position assigned to the ED. The pharmacist serves as an integrated clinical resource for physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, pharmacists, and other members of the care team. The role provides opportunities to directly influence complex and high-risk medication decisions, emergency response, trauma and toxicology care, antimicrobial therapy, medication safety, and other time-sensitive patient-care needs.
The ideal candidate will combine strong acute-care clinical pharmacy expertise with the flexibility and operational awareness needed to support pharmacy services during evening hours. This position is particularly well suited for a pharmacist who is clinically confident, collaborative, calm under pressure, and comfortable practicing with considerable independence.
About the Role The Clinical Pharmacist is responsible and accountable for providing safe, effective, and efficient comprehensive medication management for specialized patient populations.
Within the Emergency Department, the pharmacist supports clinical medication decision-making, medication optimization, drug information and therapeutic guidance, high-risk medication needs, emergency response, and specialty areas such as trauma and toxicology. The pharmacist works closely with the ED care team to ensure safe, timely, and effective medication use while also helping support ED pharmacy workflow and broader Pharmacy Department operations.
Key areas of responsibility include:
- Providing comprehensive, patient-centered clinical pharmacy services within the Emergency Department.
- Assessing medication-related needs and providing timely pharmacotherapy recommendations in complex or rapidly changing clinical situations.
- Supporting emergency response, high-risk medication use, and urgent or time-sensitive medication needs.
- Collaborating directly with emergency medicine physicians, APPs, nurses, pharmacists, and other members of the multidisciplinary care team.
- Identifying, preventing, and resolving medication-related problems and potential adverse medication events.
- Incorporating patient-specific factors, including age and disease characteristics, into medication therapy and education.
- Adjusting recommendations and interventions based on patient response and evolving clinical needs.
- Supporting areas such as trauma, toxicology, antimicrobial therapy, medication safety, and other high-acuity clinical needs.
- Balancing direct patient-care priorities with operational pharmacy needs during evening hours.
- Serving as a clinical pharmacy resource and liaison to physicians, nursing teams, other departments, and health care professionals.
- Supporting medication-use quality initiatives, regulatory compliance efforts, practice advancement, and process improvement.
- Providing medication- and practice-related education and training and serving as a preceptor for pharmacy students and residents, as applicable.
- Participating in clinical research and practice-advancement projects within areas of expertise, as appropriate.
What Makes Someone Successful in This Role? Successful pharmacists in this position are
proactive rather than reactive. They recognize medication-related risks early, understand when immediate clinical intervention is necessary, and follow issues through to resolution.
They are able to independently prioritize multiple high-acuity patients and competing clinical needs while remaining an approachable and trusted resource for the ED team. Strong performers communicate effectively with providers and nurses, remain calm during emergencies and periods of high volume, and move fluidly between clinical patient-care needs and operational pharmacy priorities.
This role requires sound clinical judgment, strong prioritization skills, professional ownership, and the ability to work independently during evening hours when fewer specialty resources may be immediately available.
Preferred Clinical Background Candidates with strong
acute-care clinical pharmacy experience are preferred. Experience in one or more of the following areas would be particularly valuable:
- Emergency medicine
- Critical care
- Trauma
- Toxicology
- Resuscitation, code, or rapid-response participation
- Antimicrobial stewardship
- Emergency medication preparation
- High-acuity pharmacotherapy
- Medication-use protocol development
- ACLS-related practice or emergency-response support
Job title and salary will be determined based on education and experience. 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 o 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.
Qualifications: - 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
