Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – Cardiac ICU / Cardiology

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.