Per Diem / PRN Pharmacist
Denver Springs
Englewood, CO
5x8 hrs

Denver Springs, part of Lifepoint Behavioral Health, nationally known healthcare organization with diversified delivery network with facilities from coast to coast, seeks passionate, patient-centric, and goal-oriented team members to join our team. We specialize in compassionate behavioral health services, including crisis stabilization, inpatient care, and outpatient treatment for acute mental health and substance use treatment. Our philosophy is built on a psychosocial model of care to decrease suicide rates, decrease addiction-related deaths, reverse the decline in life expectancy, and improve productivity in the communities we serve. We offer a collaborative work environment, competitive compensation, and flexible scheduling so you can focus on what matters–providing quality patient care. Join our team in Englewood, Colorado, to build a career that touches lives.

Members of our team Enjoy:

• Working with a highly engaged staff
• Healthy staffing levels
• Flexible scheduling
• Career growth
• Competitive compensation

• UKG Wallet – We’ve partnered with UKG Wallet, a voluntary Earned Wage Access benefit, to offer employees access to their pay on their own schedule.

What you will do in this role:

• Fills orders with correct medication. Checks support staff accuracy prior to medication release.
• Prioritizes work to prepare STAT, Now and Waiting in order of importance.
• Reviews patient profile to ensure appropriate and safe drug therapy. No therapeutic duplication. Prevents significant drug interaction. Prevents avoidable ADR secondary to allergies. Medication ordered is appropriate for patient height, weight, age, renal function disease state, laboratory and other data. Must be have knowledge of patient population served.
• Participates in the maintenance and dissemination of drug information through in-service education of hospital personnel, consultation with patients, hospital and Medical staff.
• Actively assists other Pharmacists and Technicians in the discharge of routine duties as necessary. Directs activities of and provides professional and technical guidance to Pharmacy personnel.
• Prepares unit of use dosage when possible.
• Keeps Director informed of workload status and potential problems.
• Is competent in the range of treatment needed by the following patients as appropriate to the ages served by the hospital: Pediatric, Adult and Geriatric
• Capable of entering a minimum of 40 orders per four hour shift.
• Generates required reports and Performs Backup Procedures correctly.
• Assists Technicians in performing technical tasks.
• Ensures temperature and environmental monitoring logs are maintained appropriately.
• Keeps current on new drugs.
• Serves as on-call pharmacist as scheduled and able to return to the hospital on scheduled days for urgent situations.
• Maintains security of Pharmacy. Maintains security of controlled substances.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Salary range: $55-$62 per hour. We would expect those hired into this job would be paid within this hourly rate, however, certain circumstances may allow us to pay outside of this hourly rate.

Qualifications:

• Graduate of an accredited School of Pharmacy with Pharmacist degree
• Licenses/Certification: Current state license in good standing
• Minimum of three (3) months of experience in pharmacy. Working knowledge of OSHA, JCAHO, HCFA and state guidelines. Experience in facilitating teams.  Experience in writing policies and procedures.