CLINICAL SPECIALIST: PEDIATRIC ANTIMICROBIAL STEWARDSHIP

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Job Title: Clinical Specialist: Antimicrobial Stewardship

Location: Cincinnati OH, USA

Job Setting: Pediatrics/Critical Care

Job Description:

CLINICAL SPECIALIST: PEDIATRIC ANTIMICROBIAL STEWARDSHIP

The Division of Pharmacy of Cincinnati Children27s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) is seeking a second Antimicrobial Stewardship Clinical Specialist to join our multidisciplinary antimicrobial stewardship program. This full-time position will be part of a 36-person clinical specialist team and work collaboratively with clinical pharmacy, pediatric infectious diseases physicians, microbiology, and infection prevention team to optimize antimicrobial use in the inpatient and ambulatory settings.

Responsibilities include antimicrobial approval review, real-time stewardship interventions, prospective audit and feedback, and development of clinical guidelines and decision support tools. The clinical specialist will also work closely with pediatric infectious diseases consult services and serve as a pharmacy resource for complex antimicrobial management.

Additional responsibilities include stewardship data analysis and reporting, regulatory readiness, NHSN antimicrobial use and resistance submissions, quality improvement initiatives, optimization of stewardship workflows within the electronic medical record, and education of healthcare professionals and learners.

Participation in scholarly activities and precepting of pharmacy residents and students is expected. In-house weekend coverage of a general pediatric clinical pharmacy shift is required approximately once quarterly.

Applicants should have earned a Pharm.D. degree and completed two years of postgraduate residency training, including a PGY2 in Infectious Diseases or Pediatrics with substantial infectious diseases and antimicrobial stewardship experience. Candidates must be eligible for licensure in Ohio.

Cincinnati Children27s is a 705-bed tertiary care teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and College of Pharmacy. Position offers excellent benefits, including six weeks of paid time off per year.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Patient Care -Provide comprehensive clinical pharmacy services to a specialty patient population on a daily basis, including attendance at medical team rounds, selection and dosing of medication therapies, therapeutic drug monitoring and adjustment of drug therapies. Additionally complete population based drug use evaluations and performance improvement initiatives (order sets, Epic alerts, guidelines, protocols, etc.) to improve outcome and safety for the specialty patient population. Provide 24/7 on-call coverage for pharmacy clinical services to the assigned medical team.
• Teaching and Education -Serve as a preceptor and resource to the Pharmacy Residents, Pharmacists (Pharmacist I, Pharmacist II and Pharmacist III), pharmacy interns and students. Present accredited continuing education programs to the Division of Pharmacy and assist in the development and implementation of clinical therapeutic educational opportunities of the division. Coordinate inservice education of medical and nursing staffs for assigned patient care area.
• Performance Improvement -Participate in improving organizational performance and patient safety through identification and implementation of improvement initiatives as well as participation on committees and improvement teams for their specialty patient population and the division of pharmacy.
• Research/Scholarly Activity -Actively participate in the development, implementation and ongoing coordination of research projects and/or share knowledge and information through posters, regional or national presentations, or publications.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS

• PharmD Degree
• Pharmacist License in the state of Ohio
• PGY1 Residency
• PGY2 Residency in pediatrics or relevant patient population specialty

Comprehensive job description provided upon request.