Overnight Clinical Pharmacist

About This Role

This full-time overnight Clinical Pharmacist provides essential clinical and operational services for acute care patients at MGH, ensuring safe and effective medication therapy. The role involves direct patient-centered care, collaboration with interdisciplinary teams, and adherence to professional and regulatory standards.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical and operational services for MGH acute care patients, interfacing with clinical pharmacy and operations teams.
• Assume responsibility and accountability for safe, effective, and prompt medication therapy.
• Provide direct patient-centered care and integrated pharmacy operational services.
• Deliver optimal medication therapy to patients with a broad range of disease states.
• Assess patient needs, incorporating age and disease specific characteristics into drug therapy and patient education.
• Adjust care according to patient response and provide clinical interventions to detect, mitigate, and prevent medication adverse events.
• Serve as departmental resource and liaison to other departments, hospital personnel, or external groups.
• Manage the appropriate use of medications according to professional and regulatory standards.
• Conduct practice-related research and patient care, quality, and regulatory compliance initiatives.
• Provide medication and practice-related education/training and actively serve as preceptors for pharmacy residents and Doctor of Pharmacy students.

Requirements

• Eligible for licensure to practice pharmacy in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
• Meet all Board of Pharmacy requirements to enter into a collaborative drug therapy management agreement (when applicable)

Qualifications

• Doctor of Pharmacy Pharmacy required
• 2-3 years experience working as a pharmacist preferred

Nice to Have

• Postgraduate residency/fellowship training
• Completion of ASHP-accredited PGY1 with critical care experience or a PGY2 Critical Care Pharmacy Residency

Benefits

Certifications