It's an exciting time to be at University Health. Ambulatory Care Clinical Pharmacists (CP) and Clinical Pharmacy Specialists (CPS) at University Health provide services to a wide range of outpatient adult and pediatric practice areas. Current or anticipated ambulatory openings include:
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Primary Care
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Advanced Community Primary Care
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Clinical Pharmacist or Clinical Pharmacy Specialist Positions
Medication Therapy Management (2)
Ambulatory Care Clinical Pharmacist and Clinical Pharmacy Specialists provide comprehensive clinical pharmacy services for outpatients to improve health outcomes, to optimize safe, effective and cost-effective drug therapy, and to increase care quality for patients throughout the continuum of care through:
Identifying, evaluating, resolving and monitoring potential medication-related problems including patient adherence and access to medications
Directly managing pharmacotherapy for chronic disease states under a collaborative practice agreement (CPS only)
Developing best practice guidelines, safety and quality initiatives and policy related to outpatient pharmacotherapy
Improving Ambulatory Care services through collaboration with other pharmacy team members, active participation in quality, safety and cost-saving initiatives, Clinical Management Team meetings, and Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee/Subcommittee meetings
Delivering individualized and group patient, provider, and clinical staff education
Actively participating in Pharmacist Intern and Pharmacy Resident experiential learning experiences, including development of an Ambulatory Care, Advanced Community Care, Medication Therapy Managment, or Transitions of Care learning experience
Advancing Ambulatory Care pharmacy services through research, education of healthcare professionals, and professional organizational involvement
We will be interviewing in person at PPS.
Virtual interviews before & after ASHP Midyear are also available.
Required Qualifications:
Pharmacy licensure in the state of Texas and a B.S. Pharm or Pharm. D. degree
CPS: Completion of an ASHP-accredited PGY2 Pharmacy Residency in Ambulatory Care; or equivalent experience (PGY1 plus 2 additional years of experience in Ambulatory Care; or 5 years of experience in health-system pharmacy, with 2 years of experience in Ambulatory Care)
CP: Completion of an ASHP-accredited PGY1 Community-Based Pharmacy Residency; or equivalent experience (3 years of medication therapy management related experience in community pharmacy)
Additional Preferred Qualifications for both:
Board Certification in Ambulatory Care Pharmacy (BCACP), Pharmacotherapy (BCPS), other related specialty, or eligible to test
Pharmacy Preceptor license in the state of Texas
Certification(s) in sub-specialty area (e.g., BC-ADM, CDCES, TTS, BCMTMS, CHC, CLS)
For more than 100 years, University Health has been here to heal, to improve health, to lead, innovate and advance the practice of medicine. Above all, the people of University Health are here to serve all who entrust us with their health and lives with the highest-quality care, respect and compassion.
As the only locally owned and operated health system in San Antonio and Bexar County, University Health takes to heart its responsibility to serve the health needs of our community today and into the future.
Our mission is to improve the good health of the community through high quality compassionate patient care, innovation, education and discovery.
We fulfill this mission through a set of core values.
Our patient care will be:
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Wise in the use of resources.
As we continue this legacy of service to our growing community and region, we embrace a bold vision:
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