Staff Pharmacist
Lancaster, OH
Patterns Hiring
3x12 hrs, Nights
Referral Bonus

Must have an Ohio license and hospital experience.
7-days on/7-days off position, with work weeks running from Thursday night --> Thursday morning.
On-week hours are 2000 - 0730
This position operates as the sole Pharmacist in the hospital from 1130 - 0600, with CPhT support throughout the night

Job Description
Job Title: Pharmacist
Reports to: Supervisor
FLSA Status: Non-exempt

Job Summary
Provides pharmaceutical care to patients including monitoring, evaluation, and assurance of the quality of medication use, provision of drug information, distribution, and control of drugs and other patient services. Performs other duties as requested.
Performs all duties and responsibilities in accordance to the established FMC policies, procedures and guidelines.

Job Qualifications
Education: Bachelor of Science or Pharm D. degree from an American Colleges of Pharmacy Education required.
Must have a valid Ohio Pharmacy License in good standing with the Ohio Board of Pharmacy.

Experience: One year of hospital pharmacy experience preferred.

Job-related Skills: Excellent communication and human relation skills when dealing with co-workers, other Center employees, the medical staff, patients, families, and the general public.

Essential Job Functions
Organizational Expectations and Responsibilities:
1. Mission and Service Values
a. Empathy – Demonstrates a willingness to understand others’ perspectives, without labeling or judging; treats others with compassion and is personally engaged in providing patient and family-centered care.
b. Integrity—Takes responsibility for own words and actions; has passion and courage to do the right thing; delivers on promises and commitments; is honest and achieves excellence in all things through ethical and legal behavior.
c. Stewardship—Uses FMC resources wisely; respects the time and resources of patients, family and peers; shows pride in FMC and gives back to the Center and community with time, talent and /or money.
d. Agility—Demonstrates courage to take initiative to find creative solutions; anticipates concerns and responds promptly; minimizes bureaucracy and explores opportunity for growth.
e. Teamwork—Works collaboratively, not in silos; treats others with courtesy and respect; assumes good intent and welcomes differing viewpoints; creates a spirit of belonging and fellowship within FMC; embraces the FMC culture.

2 Commitment and Engagement
a. Quality—Demonstrates commitment to improve individual performance and contributes to team accomplishments and quality improvement initiatives.
b. Safety—Creates and maintains a safe and clean work environment and reports unsafe conditions to the appropriate individuals.
c. Service—Recognizes and anticipates the needs of customers and strives to surpass customer expectations; utilizes AIDET, TeamSTEPPS and other tools to avoid and/or resolve concerns with the best possible outcome.
d. Sustainability—Demonstrates timely, accurate and cost-conscious use of resources in the daily work.

3. Personal Engagement
a. Organization Commitment—Complies with FMC policies, procedures, work instructions and guidelines; reports compliance or ethical concerns to appropriate personnel; does not gossip but works to create a positive work experience with others.
b. Personal Commitment—Demonstrates ownership of the job; willing to step up and help others; works across departmental lines; is fully present at work—physically and emotionally; maximizes own talents and that of others.
c. Personal Growth—Demonstrates a commitment to ongoing learning; completes all mandatory education and participates in learning events/opportunities/experiences to enhance on-the-job performance.

Job Expectations and Responsibilities:
4. Reviews, interprets, processes, and validates and/or dispenses medication orders and prescriptions accurately.
5. Monitors and manages patient medication therapy to ensure therapeutic appropriateness and effectiveness of drug regimens, including appropriateness to the age of the individual patient.
6. Maintains established departmental policies and procedures, objectives, quality improvement program, and records consistent with regulations and standards governing the practice of pharmacy.
7. Communicates drug information to patients, family, and other health care providers.
8. Participates in drug therapy management of medical emergencies by responding to emergency call, assisting in medication preparation and provision of drug information and assuring adequate medication supplies.
9. Coordinates the day-to-day pharmacy technician activities to meet the needs of the patient, organization and department.

Physical Capacity Demand
- Medium Work: Exerting up to 20-50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10-25 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible up to 10 pounds amount of force often.

Job Considerations
- Psychological/Mental – analytical abilities, memory, problem-solving and creativity
- Physiological- Potential Exposures: Electrical equipment

Cognitive-Communication and collaboration with other co-workers, physicians, other employees, and patients and families; prioritizing and time management; persuasiveness and judgment
- Environmental-no special considerations
- Protective Equipment- no special considerations