Pharmacist

CHI Mercy Health offers the unique opportunity to grow professionally in a supportive highly rewarding work environment and to satisfy your soul in the surroundings of a breathtakingly beautiful natural setting. More than 100 years after the founding of our organization the core values - Compassion Inclusion Integrity Excellence and Collaboration - that guide our interactions with our patients and each other remain the same. In the welcoming embrace of these nurturing communities you will feel immediately at home. 

Roseburg is located on Interstate 5 in Southern Oregon's scenic Douglas County. The community is nestled in a lush forested region known as the 100 Valleys of the Umpqua. In many places you’ll find it hard to maintain a healthy work-life/personal-life balance because the pace of one is indistinguishable from the other. Not here. Life never stops here but it slows to an easy welcome pace. A traffic jam means you missed the yellow and have to wait for the next green. A terrible parking space is the one across from the restaurant instead of in front of it. And the three words you may never hear are “Wow that’s expensive.” Easy is the best way to describe life here. Hard-to-beat works too.

Schedule: Evenings

Job Summary:

Under the direction of the Director and Assistant Director of Pharmacy Services, the Staff Pharmacist compounds, prepares and mixes, manufactures, and dispenses medications and preparations prescribed by medical practitioners.  The pharmacist monitors all aspects of patient medication treatment as well as consulting and intervening in drug therapy when appropriate.  The Pharmacist performs pharmacotherapeutic activities in accordance with departmental policies. The Pharmacist oversees technician activities and functions as the department supervisor in the absence of the Pharmacy management.

Essential Functions:

• Promotes a strong belief in Mercy’s Mission and has respect for and compliance with Mercy’s Patient Rights Statement.
• Demonstrates behavior consistent with Mercy’s Core Values: Reverence, Integrity, Compassion, and Excellence.
• Incumbent has access to restricted or confidential patient information and must comply with the terms of the Mercy Medical Center Security Policies as it applies to their job role.
• Collaborates with immediate supervisor to establish, define and refine department goals and objectives consistent with facility’s Mission and Values, and demonstrates satisfactory progress towards these goals and objectives.
• Exhibits the ability to make effective decisions based on verifiable and measurable data/criteria.
• Promotes positive customer relations with internal and external customers.
• Demonstrates respect and sensitivity to cultural/social differences in interactions with others.
• Completes assigned tasks in a timely manner.
• Demonstrates initiative and problem solving skill, using sound judgment.
• Assumes additional responsibilities as needed, with little or no direction, shows initiative in assisting others within the department.

Position Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Collects and organizes all patient specific information needed to ensure safe, cost effective, and clinically rational therapy for patients in assigned areas. This includes prevention, detection and resolution of medication related issues.
• Identifies the presence of medication therapy issues in the patient’s current medication therapy and takes action to resolve them appropriately.
• Completes all required documentation of pharmaceutical care activities to provide an accurate patient record and to document value provided by the department. 
• Provides drug information to internal and external customers as requested.
• Prioritizes the workload and workflow for the technical and clerical personnel in assigned areas, taking into account available resources and acute and long term needs.
• Provides the final verification of all technician activities as required by departmental policy and applicable laws and regulations.
• Prepares and dispense medication orders per physician request according to established policies, procedures and protocols
• Ensures safe, appropriate, cost-effective medication therapies for patients according to established policies, procedures, and protocols.
• Makes critical decisions and responds quickly to emergency requests.

Department Core Duties and Responsibilities:

• Performs all duties in compliance with all applicable laws, policies and regulations.
• Maintains competence required for current job title/position
• Contributes to the quality and effective operation of the department.
• Participates in training of new technicians, pharmacists, interns, students and job shadows.
• Adheres to all Departmental and Mercy policies including: Dress Code, Attendance, and behavior standards.
• Demonstrates a very positive customer service attitude to all people, all of the time.
• Maintains a professional decorum and maintains personal self-control and integrity.
• Promotes and positively contributes to the teamwork of the department by volunteering to assist coworkers, contribute ideas, and problem solve.
• Participates in planning and implementing new processes or changes to current processes to improve quality, efficiency and productivity by attendance and participation in staff meetings, committees, task forces, projects and discussions held for these purposes.
• Always looks to provide top quality care and service while protecting the financial interests of Mercy and the department.
• Interacts appropriately and proactively with internal and external customers to ensure good communication, optimal use of resources and minimal waste.
• Understands personal and departmental responsibilities for internal codes and the disaster plan.
• Utilizes software and technology with a high degree of competence including data entry, document creation, documentation and maintenance of systems.
• Use aseptic techniques to perform IV admixture and maintain all aspects of the clean room environment according to USP 797 standards.
• Order entry into Meditech and communication coordination between outside customers and internal coworkers.

Required Education and Experience:

• Graduate of an accredited College of Pharmacy

Required Licensure and Certifications:

• Licensure as Registered Pharmacist by Oregon State Board of Pharmacy or eligible to apply

Required Minimum Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to effectively communicate both verbally and in written formats. 
• Strong interpersonal skills to interface with physicians, staff and others.
• A desire and ability to provide excellent customer service.