INFECTIOUS DISEASES / ASP PHARMACIST - FULL TIME (TWO OPEN POSITIONS)

Loyola University Medical Center | Trinity Health

Maywood, IL

Description:

This position provides clinical pharmacy support to the Infectious Diseases service, with a focus on antimicrobial stewardship. Additional responsibilities include and are not limited to rounding with general and transplant ID services, ensuring regulatory compliance, monitoring program success, responding to drug information questions (hospital-wide), precepting pharmacy residents, and other duties. 

Clinical pharmacists provide comprehensive pharmaceutical care to designated service areas or patient populations to achieve optimal patient outcomes and safety. They function as members of multidisciplinary teams to improve medication therapy management. These positions act as drug information resources and their responsibilities include age-specific and/or disease specific consultative medication therapy evaluation, education of both patients and other medical staff, research, and participation in quality improvement activities. 

What you will need:

• Required: Bachelor's Degree
• Preferred: Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) or BS Pharmacy
• Specify Degree(s): Bachelor's Degree in Pharmacy
• Residency: Pharmacy Practice - General (Preferred), Infectious Disease Specialty Residency/Fellowship (preferred) or equivalent experience

Minimum Experience:

• Required: 1-2 years of previous job-related experience
• Preferred: 3-5 years of previous job-related experience

Licensure/Certifications:

Required: Registered Pharmacist
Preferred: Board Certified in Specialty Area
Computer Skills:

Required:

Perks & Benefits:

• Benefits from Day One (Medical and Dental)
• Competitive Shift Differentials 
• Career Development
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Participation in the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program
• 403(b) with Employer Match
• On Site Fitness Center (Gottlieb Memorial Hospital & LUMC)
• Referral Rewards
• Perks Program

Our Promise to You:

Joining Loyola Medicine is being a part of an organization that treats the human spirit in our patients and fellow colleagues. We are a part of a community which believes in giving back to those we serve.

• We serve together in the spirit of the Gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities
• We live and breathe our guiding behaviors: we support each other in serving, we communicate openly, honestly, respectfully, and directly, we are fully present, we are all accountable, we trust and assume goodness in intentions, and we are continuous learners

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:

Trinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.

Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.

Link to job posting:

Infectious Disease ASP Pharmacist . Full Time job in Maywood, Illinois, 60153 | Pharmacy Services jobs at Loyola Medicine (trinity-health.org)

Contact: 

Lisa Peters, PharmD
Regional Director of Clinical Pharmacy Services and Residency Programs
Loyola University Health System

lisa.peters@luhs.org