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Posted: 05-Dec-25

Location: St Louis, Missouri

Type: Full Time

Categories:

Clinical Pharmacist

Pharmacy

Job Setting:

Hospital/Institutional

Requirements:

Residency Required

Specialty Practice Areas:

Critical Care

Emergency Medicine

Pediatrics/OB-GYN

St. Louis Children’s Hospital is recruiting a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist to support the Heart Center. This is a full-time, Monday-Friday position with some rotating weekend responsibilities.

The Clinical Pharmacy Specialist will provide pharmaceutical services to patients in the Heart Center where they will rotate between the cardiac intensive care unit and cardiac step-down unit. They will cultivate relationships with medical and nursing staff to provide timely drug information and promote adherence to regulatory standards. They will individualize medication regimens using sound principles, accounting for pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic variations in drug absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination with responsibility for establishing and continually improving the delivery of pharmaceutical care to patients within areas of direct responsibility and assisting others in the pharmacy department with the same. The clinical pharmacy specialist will also participate in the training of pharmacy students, staff, and pharmacy residents.

Minimum requirements:

-              Doctorate Degree in Pharmacy

-              Licensed pharmacist in state of Missouri

-              Board certification within 2 years of starting position

-              PGY1 Residency

Preferred Qualifications:

-              PGY2 Pediatric Residency

-              Board certification

About St. Louis Children's Hospital

St. Louis Children's Hospital, located in St. Louis, MO, is the pediatric academic hospital for BJC Health System, a comprehensive health care system serving Missouri, Illinois, and Kansas. It was founded in 1879 and through its affiliation with Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM) physicians, provides inpatient and outpatient care across more than 50 specialty areas with the goal to improve the health and lives of children. It has served patients and families from all 50 states and more than 80 countries. It has 455 licensed beds, including 77 pediatric intensive care beds, a 150-bed level IV neonatal intensive care unit, and a 16-bed pediatric bone marrow transplant unit. The Emergency Unit at St. Louis Children's Hospital has over 30 beds, serves roughly 50,000 patient visits per year, and is designated as a pediatric stroke center and Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center. Further, the WUSM Department of Pediatrics is recognized by the National Institutes of Health as a Child Health Research Center.

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