Pharmacist

For over 20 years, Collingwood General & Marine Hospital (CGMH), Georgian Bay General Hospital (GBGH), Headwaters Health Care Centre (HHCC) and Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre (RVH) have been in partnership sharing a single Health Information System (HIS) – Meditech. This group has come to be known as the “Regional ITS Partnership”. With the implementation of Meditech Expanse, RVH has been identified by the partnership as the Lead agency providing regional Meditech support and some other key services. The primary purpose of this partnership of the four hospitals is to improve patient safety and quality of care by promoting and maintaining a one patient, one record vision in our single shared HIS. The Regional ITS Partnership has identified information and technology as key pillar to support a safe and efficient patient experience while driving clinical excellence. We are excited to further expand our team to continue the ongoing support.

As the Meditech Clinical Applications Pharmacist, you will report to the Regional Manager of Clinical Informatics Provider and Ancillary. You will be an integral member of the Regional Digital Health Team. This challenging position seeks an individual who is self-directed, analytical, and organized to fill the role. This role involves working closely with regional internal programs and departments to determine business needs and the facilitation of effective solutions that are consistent with regional and organizational goals and objectives. The role will support applications development, operations and maintenance of clinical and non-clinical systems as needed. As an innovative and self-directed member of the team, you will embrace accountability and encourage fellow team members to make innovative contributions and embrace new ideas to effect change and enhance quality. It is essential that commitments are maintained in a manner which fosters the values and visions of the Region and partner sites, resulting in mutual trust between fellow employees

This role provides applications support for all Regional Partner Hospitals (RVH, CGMH, GBGH, HHHC) during M-F regular hours and off-hours “on-call support” as required. In addition, you might be scheduled to work one day per month within the RVH Pharmacy Program working directly in the circle of care for patients so that you can support and maintain your clinical competence. You must have access to reliable transportation and a valid driver’s license. You may be assigned to an alternate main site temporarily at the discretion of the RDH Leadership and therefore willingness and flexibility to support the four hospitals organizational needs.

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate the RVH values and mission, which is guided by RVH’s Vitally You Strategy
• Provide the services of a licensed Pharmacist to lead and participate in acute, ambulatory and clinic medical management planning, development, implementation, training, evaluation of use, and optimization of the pharmacy information system module to support Electronic Medication Administration and Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE), through application of knowledge of medications, pharmacy best practice, principles relates to medication safety, reflect external accreditation and/or regulatory bodies (Ex: Accreditation Canada)
• Optimize application features and functionality to promote patient safety, meet end-user requirements and reduce errors related to medication ordering, dispensing, and administration
• Assist in overall implementation and long-term maintenance and optimization activities, by creating innovate solutions to resolve known problems or inefficiencies, and facilitate workflow processes
• Collaborate closely with and communicate between the Care4 Partnership organization pharmacy and clinical staff and leaders to align pharmacy system features and functionality with daily workflows and long term strategic objectives of the electronic health record (EHR)
• Work collaboratively with the other RDH analyst and regional partner organizations to evolve and support electronic patient record initiations
• Analysis of user-departmental workflow processes and ability to translate into systems-based efficiencies through automation
• Participate in applicable working group(s), council(s) and/or committee(s)
• Coordinate training and support departmental trainers for application(s) and provide training as required for Meditech systems.

QUALIFICATIONS

Requirements:

• Registered Pharmacist, in good standing with the Ontario College of Pharmacists (Part A Required)
• Bachelor of Science or PharmD degree in Pharmacy
• Minimum two (2) years of experience in a hospital pharmacy setting, preferred
• Minimum At least three-years application development and clinical support experience preferred
• Knowledge of current evidence-based, best practice pharamacotherapeutics and pharmacokinetics and their application of patient centred pharameutical care
• Practice continuing professional development as required by the Regulates Health Professions Act
• Experience with MEDITECH Expanse clinical, administrative and financial application implementation, maintenance, upgrades, and/or projects
• Previous experience with pharmacy automation
• Experience in workflow and process redesign
• Experience and understanding of Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), Change Management and/or Project Management philosophies and methodologies
• Strong understanding of privacy legislation and application to systems and technologies in Health Care

PREFERRED:

• Experience with Microsoft Suite of Products, VMware, Windows Operating Systems, Biztalk, HL7 standards
• Using industry programming languages (VB, JavaScript, C#, C++, Objective C) and methodology, develop tools to solve hospital business problems,
• Experience with business analysis and requirements documentation
• Experience with analyzing data to identify trends, gaps and information that can drive positive change
• Understanding of a risk matrix and risk mitigation strategies
• Project Management & Change Management Certified preferred

You will be a great fit for this position if you have:
• Excellent customer relations and support service
• Consistently display behaviour that enhances the image of organization as evidenced by professional and courteous behaviour toward all customers
• Evidence of on-going professional development
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Excellent skill in problem recognition and problem solving, including critical incident management
• Self -motivated and able to work independently with minimal supervision
• Demonstrated contributor to a positive team spirit and attitude and lives the RVH Values
• Ability and experience demonstrated through positive performance appraisals, work history and attendance records
• Experience working with highly integrated teams
• Must be able to manage several projects/tasks at one time