Clinical Pharmacist Inpatient

Job Description:

Job Specifics:

Schedule: Full time 40 hours per week

Shift Details:

Mostly days of 8 or 10-hour shifts 

Some evenings and nights 

Weekend rotation: every 3rd or 4th weekend 

Holiday rotations 

Location: Lutheran Hospital in Wheat Ridge, Colorado

Benefits Eligible: Yes - Link to Benefit Details

Join our Inpatient Pharmacy Team at Lutheran Hospital in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, where pharmacists and pharmacy technicians partner with patient care teams to deliver safe, timely medication therapy across the hospital. The team supports patient care through unit-dose dispensing, sterile IV compounding, automated dispensing cabinet (Omnicell) support including accurate documentation, inventory, and controlled-substance accountability. If you enjoy a fast-paced environment, dependable teammates, and making a meaningful impact on patients throughout their hospital stay, you’ll feel right at home here.

Lutheran Hospital is a 226-bed, state-of-the-art community not-for-profit hospital in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, which opened on August 3, 2024, and is located approximately 12 miles west of Denver. As a Comprehensive Stroke Center and Level II Trauma Center, the hospital pharmacy services include trauma and emergency medicine, two critical care units (STICU and Neuro ICU), internal medicine, cardiology, antimicrobial stewardship, and medication distribution operations.

Additionally, comprehensive pharmacy services are provided at Collier Hospice, a 24-bed freestanding inpatient hospice center, and Lutheran Hospital Cancer Centers of Colorado, a 23-bed infusion center that is also involved in investigating drug studies. Lutheran Hospital recently earned the Colorado Pediatric Preparedness for the Emergency Room (COPPER) designation and was recognized by U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals 2025–2026 for high performance in aortic valve surgery, hip fracture, stroke, and maternity care outcomes.

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Essential Functions

• Reviews patients' medication order for allergy interactions, duplication of therapy, appropriateness of drug therapy, and drug- drug interaction. Makes appropriate evidence-based interventions to optimize medication use. Ensures safe, appropriate, cost-effective therapies and accurately dispenses medications.
• Oversees and/or participates in assuring appropriate medications are prepared and delivered timely to care areas and are stored both securely and appropriate for both stability and effective workflow.
• Provides counseling to patients and promotes quality medication education and adherence. Ensures patient is well informed, treated with respect, and receives the highest level of professional service.
• Completes all regulatory and compliance training and ensures documentation of regulatory requirements is clear and complete. Is knowledgeable and compliant with state and federal laws, regulations, pharmacy policies, procedures, and standard operating procedures.
• Supervises and directs activities of interns, technicians, and support personnel as required. Provides medication related clinical consultation and clarification to other health professionals.
• Takes the initiative to solve problems including, but not limited to, equipment, maintenance, drug availability, staffing issues, and extraordinary patient care concerns.
• Identifies potential areas for improvement including processes that could be streamlined or revised to improve patient satisfaction. Identifies potential safety hazards that may create problems for patients and/or staff and takes appropriate actions. Participates in departmental meetings, contributing ideas or feedback
• Supports clinic or hospital and system directives, including clinical, compliance, business operations, standardization, and customer service.
• Supports local and enterprise pharmacy leadership initiatives.

Skills

• Pharmacy
• Pharmacy Services
• Medication Management
• Pharmaceutical Care
• Project Management
• Quality Improvement
• Problem Solving
• Federal Pharmacy Laws
• State Pharmacy Laws

• Qualifications

  Minimum

  • Doctor of Pharmacy or Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy degree from an accredited institution (education verified).
  • License to practice pharmacy in the state of practice and dispense controlled substances
  • Current knowledge of state and federal regulations and statutes regarding the practice of pharmacy in the state of practice.
  • Effective communication, people management, and project management skills.
  • Immunization certification if applicable to practice site needs 

  Preferred

  • Previous experience working in an integrated healthcare delivery system
  • Board Certification
  • Health System Residency

• Physical Requirements

  • Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, documents, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess customer needs.
  • Frequent interactions with providers, colleagues, customers, patients/clients and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, needs, and issues quickly and accurately.
  • Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate supplies and equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use for typing, accessing needed information, etc.

Location:

Intermountain Health Lutheran Hospital

Work City:

Wheat Ridge

Work State:

Colorado

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience. 

$62.89 - $92.44

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