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Exemption Status: Exempt

Hiring Range: $101,025.60 - $181,854.40 Please note that the final offer may vary within this range based on a candidate’s experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity considerations.

Schedule Details: Monday through Friday

Scheduled Hours: 830a-5p

Shift: 1 - Day Shift, 8.5 Hours (United States of America)

Hours: 40

Cost Center: 10020 - 3800 Pharmacy

This position may have a signing bonus available a member of the Recruitment Team will confirm eligibility during the interview process.

Everyone Is a Caregiver

At UMass Memorial Health, everyone is a caregiver – regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care, academic excellence and leading-edge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts, and a place where we can help you build the career you deserve. We are more than 20,000 employees, working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients, community and each other. And everyone, in their own unique way, plays an important part, every day.

The Clinical Specialist, Pharmacist provides comprehensive medication management services that integrate clinical services, order management, patient/staff education and research. Clinical Specialists are responsible for improving the patient’s experience, safety, and achieving positive clinical and financial outcomes. This position is responsible to an immediate supervisor/manager.

Major Responsibilities:

The Clinical Specialist, Pharmacist meets all the major responsibilities job requirements of the Clinical Pharmacist plus the following major responsibilities:

• Maintains an active practice in a specialized or focused area.
• Continuous contribution to new clinical service or project that directly impacts patient outcomes/safety, cost containment or process improvement.
• Actively participates and/or leads hospital based interdisciplinary committee(s) and/or taskforces in a specialized or focused practice area.
• Develops and maintains clinical practice guidelines, interdisciplinary policies and standard operating procedures.
• Supports resident or other research projects and/or quality improvement initiatives and engages in opportunities for publication.
• Involved in presentations at a local or national level.
• Serves as primary preceptor for pharmacy students and residents.

Position Qualifications:

License/Certification/Education: Required:

• Doctor of Pharmacy Degree and completion of an ASHP accredited residency, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Obtained nationally recognized certification (e.g., board certification) in his/her area of specialty, when available.

Preferred:

• Certificates, grants, fellowship or honors earned in the relevant practice area, teaching accomplishments or research endeavors.

Experience/Skills: Required:

• Completed an ASHP-accredited PGY2 residency plus one year of specialty practice OR completed an ASHP-accredited PGY1 residency plus 3 years of specialty practice OR completed 5 years of practice in a specialty area.
• Completed a project management course or led a major project in his/her area of specialty.

Preferred:

• Publications in professional journals and/or presentations at professional meetings.
• Active participation in professional organizations at the local and national levels.

Unless certification, licensure or registration is required, an equivalent combination of education and experience which provides proficiency in the areas of responsibility listed in this description may be substituted for the above requirements.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

We’re striving to make respect a part of everything we do at UMass Memorial Health – for our patients, our community and each other. Our six Standards of Respect are: Acknowledge, Listen, Communicate, Be Responsive, Be a Team Player and Be Kind. If you share these Standards of Respect, we hope you will join our team and help us make respect our standard for everyone, every day.

As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, UMass Memorial Health recognizes the power of a diverse community and encourages applications from individuals with varied experiences, perspectives and backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity and expression, protected veteran status or other status protected by law.

If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at talentacquisition@umassmemorial.org. We will make every effort to respond to your request for disability assistance as soon as possible.