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Job Highlights:

Join a team where your work matters - every moment, every patient, every community. At SSM Health, you'll be empowered to grow, supported to thrive, and inspired to make a lasting impact.

St. Louis University Hospital is seeking a dedicated and highly motivated Transplant Pharmacist Specialist to join our team! This unique role offers the opportunity to serve as the sole transplant pharmacist specialist, providing direct impact and leadership within a collaborative, interdisciplinary team.

Our transplant program services kidney and liver transplantation with an average of 9-10 transplants per month. In this position, you will work closely alongside an experienced Nurse Practitioner, transplant surgeons, and medical residents, contributing to patient care through medication management, immunosuppression optimization, education, and clinical decision‑making. This role offers an opportunity to participate in both acute care and ambulatory transplant services.

If you are passionate about transplant care and eager to shape and elevate a transplant pharmacy service, we invite you to apply and be part of a team making a lasting difference in patients' lives.

Scheduling & Logistics:

+ The position is fully onsite. Standard working hours are Monday through Friday, 8 hours per day, with a variable start time based on the rounding team.

+ The latest permissible start time is 8:00 am.

+ The role includes a weekend rotation every fourth weekend, with hours from 7:00 am to 3:30 pm.

+ The position requires working two holidays per year.

+ There is no on-call requirement.

Skills & Matching Criteria:

+ Solid organ transplant experience is needed.

+ Acceptable qualifications include either Post Graduate Year 2 (PGY2) training in transplant or prior work experience in solid organ transplant.

Apply today. SSM Health- We bring out the incredible in you, every day.

Job Summary:

Optimizes patient care by promoting rational, safe, and cost-effective drug therapy by developing and providing clinical services in their area of expertise. Conducts drug therapy monitoring, drug formulary reviews, and makes pharmaceutical interventions with the goal of reducing adverse events. Educates and trains pharmacy staff, pharmacy residents, students and other members of the healthcare team as appropriate for the site.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

+ Provides pharmaceutical care in their specialty practice area which may include: review and evaluation of patient drug/medical history, providing drug therapy recommendations to optimize care, providing drug information, evaluating medical literature, rounding with other healthcare providers, drug utilization reviews, patient counseling and order entry/verification/dispensing.

+ Plans, implements, performs and measures the clinical processes which improve treatment outcomes, minimize adverse drug events and contributes to quality and financial outcomes. Coordinates DUEs, analyzes trends and evaluates data to be synthesized into reports for action by committees.

+ Creates a culture of learning and sharing that supports the development of a qualified clinical staff through coaching, motivation, and empowerment. Implements staff development on clinical processes and participates in the training of pharmacists, pharmacy residents, pharmacy students, and healthcare providers as appropriate for the site.

+ Promotes interdisciplinary teamwork including development and implementation of clinical pathways and protocols that promote appropriate medication safety and medication utilization using best practice, evidence-based recommendations.

+ Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.

+ Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

+ Pharmacy degree (Pharm.D; Bachelor of Pharmacy) from an accredited school of pharmacy

EXPERIENCE

+ Two years experience or completion of PGY1 residency

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

+ Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.

+ Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.

+ Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.

+ Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.

+ Frequent keyboard use/data entry.

+ Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.

+ Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.

+ Rare climbing.

REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS

Resuscitation Certification Requirement: Basic Life Support Healthcare Provider (BLS HCP) required within 90 day of employment. Other resuscitation certifications may be required dependent on department.

State of Work Location: Illinois

Pharmacist, Registered - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR)

And

Board Certified Ambulatory Care Pharmacist (BCACP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)

Or

Board Certified Cardiology Pharmacist (BCCP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)

Or

Board Certified Critical Care Pharmacist (BCCCP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)

Or

Board Certified Geriatric Pharmacist (BCGP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)

Or

Board Certified Infectious Diseases Pharmacist (BCIDP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)

Or

Board Certified Nuclear Pharmacist (BCNP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)

Or

Board Certified Nutrition Support Pharmacist (BCNSP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)

Or

Board Certified Oncology Pharmacist (BCOP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)

Or

Board Certified Pediatric Pharmacy Specialist (BCPPS) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)

Or

Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist (BCPS) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)

Or

Board Certified Psychiatric Pharmacist (BCPP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)

Or

Board Certified Sterile Compounding Pharmacist (BCSCP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)

Or

Board Certified Transplant Pharmacist (BCTXP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)

Or

Certified Specialty Pharmacist (CSP) - Specialty Pharmacy Certification Board (SPCB)

State of Work Location: Missouri

+ Pharmacist - Missouri Division of Professional Registration

+ And

+ Board Certified Ambulatory Care Pharmacist (BCACP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)

+ Or

+ Board Certified Cardiology Pharmacist (BCCP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS)

+ Or

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