Psychiatry Clinical Pharmacy Specialist

Parkview Regional Medical Center (PRMC) is accepting applications for a psychiatry clinical pharmacy specialist.

Position Details: The psychiatry clinical pharmacy specialist will provide pharmaceutical care services to inpatients with psychiatric consult services at Parkview Regional Medical Center (PRMC). This position is aimed at enhancing the multidisciplinary approach to care and optimizing medication therapy for adult and youth patients with complex mental health needs.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Proactive patient care via chart review, rounding, and patient interaction with psychiatric consult services
• Involvement in medication histories, reconciliation, and optimization upon admission as well as offering discharge counseling and coordination for transitions of care
• Monitoring medication-related adverse events and evaluating treatment outcomes
• Developing psychotropic stewardship initiatives to ensure safe and appropriate use
• Educational sessions for pharmacy staff, residents, and medical personnel
• Involvement in formulary considerations and quality improvement initiatives, including pharmacy driven research
• Participation in behavioral response team huddles and alerts

This role will also focus on developing learning experiences for pharmacy students and post-graduate pharmacy residents. Additionally, there will be reliance on this role to provide education to pharmacy staff and various multidisciplinary providers about various nuances of psychotropic medications, monitoring needs, and general treatment guidance to help support and enhance impact of psychotropic stewardship efforts. Although most consults will be for adult patients, there is the potential for pediatric or adolescents with the mixed patient population on the PRMC campus.

This is a full-time, 1.0 FTE position with every 4th weekend coverage covering adult internal medicine and no evenings. Benefits associated with this role include paid time off, annual volunteer time off, and quarterly Compt Lifestyle benefits to be used for personal well-being needs. Relocation costs provided. Salary and sign-on bonus are negotiable.

More about Parkview Health & Parkview Pharmacy:

Parkview Health’s world-class clinical teams provide the highest levels of compassionate care. In turn, we are committed to equipping them with state-of-the-art technology and facilities. Parkview strives to be a partner with civic leaders on the frontlines of safety, wellness, and prevention. And, because we are the region's only not-for-profit health system, you can be sure of the most important thing of all -- our patients come first. Parkview Health consists of 14 hospital facilities, 2 free-standing Surgery Centers, and over 1000 employed providers - all on the Epic© platform.

Parkview Regional Medical Center (PRMC), a member of Parkview Health, is a major regional medical center located in Fort Wayne. It provides comprehensive medical services to patients in northeastern Indiana, northwestern Ohio, and southern Michigan. PRMC is a tertiary medical center currently with 544 beds (all private) and is a Level II Adult and Pediatric Trauma Center. In addition to the medical and surgical populations, it also has specialty centers for stroke, cardiology, orthopedics, and oncology. The Women’s and Children’s Hospital sits on the PRMC campus and houses a 41-bed Level III NICU, a dedicated and comfortable family birthing center, and pediatrics care.

Parkview Pharmacy has provided advanced pharmacy services in a variety of areas for decades. Parkview offers a progressive pharmaceutical care environment in a variety of practice settings. Inpatient services include extensive interdisciplinary rounding, graduate medical education engagement, and surgical/critical care and oncology satellite pharmacies. We have also had tremendous growth in ambulatory pharmaceutical care including primary care, hospital-based clinics, specialty clinics, multiple retail pharmacies, and specialty pharmacy. Parkview Pharmacy leadership includes a team with dedication to each facility and service type, including Inpatient and Ambulatory Clinical Services, Distribution Services Managers for Parkview Regional Medical Center and Parkview Hospital, Oncology Manager, and Retail & Specialty Managers. Additionally, there are supervisors in each area to help support daily needs and department projects in conjunction with lead pharmacists and lead technicians.

Parkview pharmacy is an early adopter of and a best-practice site for integrated technologies, including Epic©, Pyxis® MedStations™, Pyxis® CII Safe™, BD CatoTM, Parata ATPTM, Tecsys inventory management and vertical carousels, a centralized acute care pharmacy distribution center, smart intravenous infusion systems, and Baxa EM 2400™ TPN compounder.

Awards & Recognition:

• In 2025, all five Parkview Family Birthing Centers in Indiana were honored with the INspire Hospital of Distinction award. Parkview Regional Medical Center received the INspire Category of Excellence.
• In late 2024, Parkview Health ranked No. 7 overall on Newsweek’s list of the Top 200 Most Loved Workplaces nationwide.
• In November 2024, all six eligible Parkview hospitals received “A” grades for Hospital Safety Grades by The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit focused on patient safety in hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers.
• Parkview was named to the CHIME Most Wired list for the 11th consecutive year in October 2024. In the 2024 survey, Parkview was certified at Level 9, the second-highest rating, in both acute and ambulatory care categories.
• In September 2024, Parkview Health was named the No. 3 nonprofit, No. 18 in North America and for the first time, ranked No. 19 globally by Inspiring Workplaces Group for our culture.
• In September 2024, Parkview Health was named NRC Health Excellence in Patient Experience Award winner across medium size health systems, for the second consecutive year.
• In July 2024, Parkview was ranked No. 1 by Epic for planned downtime
• In the fall of 2024, PRMC recognized by US News and World Report as No. 4 Indiana Hospital, “High Performing” in seven categories.
• In September 2024, Parkview Health was named to Newsweek’s list of Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces, for the second consecutive year, recognized in five additional categories aside from outstanding employee sentiment and satisfaction.
• In August 2024, Parkview was named to the Forbes list of America’s Best-in-State Employers, for the third consecutive year.
• In 2024, the ECMO team received the Gold Level Center of Excellence Award from the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO).
• In July 2024, PRMC received multiple American Heart Association “Get with the Guidelines® Gold Plus” awards, recognizing the hospital for excellent atrial fibrillation (AFib), stroke and Type 2 diabetes care.
• In April 2024, Parkview Health was selected to Becker’s Hospital Review’s 150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare list.
• In March 2024, Parkview received Stage 7 Validation awards from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), a globally recognized adviser in health information technology.
• Parkview Regional Medical Center (PRMC) was named as one of the best community hospitals for cardiovascular care in the 2024 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals list compiled and published by Fortune/PINC AI in February 2024.

Position Qualifications:

• Pharmacy degree from an ACPE-accredited institution

• Pharmacy licensure or eligibility in Indiana
• Completion of a PGY1 pharmacy residency with a PGY2 in Psychiatry or equivalent psychiatric experience. Completion of Board Certification in Psychiatry Pharmacy or qualification to sit for certification within two years of hire is required.
• We are looking for candidates with a high level of clinical practice skills and enthusiasm for teaching with interpersonal skills that allow for effective interactions with students, health professionals, and patients. This candidate will need to be someone willing to work on developing this role with coordination and teamwork from multidisciplinary groups.

Applications:

Official applications can be submitted online at www.parkview.com. Two letters of reference should be sent to Jamie Gaul, PharmD, Clinical Pharmacy Manager, 11109 Parkview Plaza Drive, Fort Wayne, IN 46845 or jamie.gaul@parkview.com.

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