Advanced Practice Clinic Leader (Pharmacy) - Pharmacy Services-camh

Through its core values of Courage, Respect and Excellence, CAMH is implementing its Strategic Plan: Connected CAMH, to transform lives, ignite innovation and discovery, revolutionize education and drive social change. CAMH is more than a hospital, it is a cause. CAMH is on a mission to change the way society thinks about and responds to mental illness. They aim to eliminate prejudice and discrimination and shape a world where mental illness is central to our healthcare system - a world where Mental Health is Health.

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Reporting to the Director of Pharmacy Services, the full-time, permanent Advanced Practice Clinical Leader - Pharmacy will standardize and optimize the clinical practice of pharmacists in order to deliver safe and evidence-based care to inpatients and outpatients at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). In addition, the APCL - Pharmacy provides leadership in ensuring pharmacists and pharmacy technicians are working to their full scopes of practice, in guiding best practice changes to comply with regulatory and accreditation standards, and in developing and adopting innovative practices. The APCL - Pharmacy uses their expertise to advance the pharmaceutical care provided by pharmacists and trainees through clinical supervision and teaching, and provides leadership to pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to ensure that all are working to their full scopes of practice. The APCL - Pharmacy provides guidance on clinical practice changes, and develop innovative practices to comply with all regulatory and accreditation standards. The successful candidate will be expected to promote the highest quality pharmaceutical care, by teaching and mentoring pharmacists, pharmacy students and residents, and through scholarly activity in affiliation with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy.

As a member of the Pharmacy Leadership Team, the APCL - Pharmacy represents Pharmacy Services when liaising with physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals. They share their clinical knowledge, skills and experience, and influence to improve medication therapy management through collaborative participation in departmental and organizational committees, subcommittees, working groups and more.

As a Registered Pharmacist with the Ontario College of Pharmacists (OCP), the APCL - Pharmacy abides by applicable provincial and federal pieces of legislation and accompanying acts and regulations, and practices within the requirements of OCP, which includes OCP’s Standards of Practice, Code of Ethics and Code of Conduct, in their most current version. Furthermore, the APCL works to ensure that Clinical Pharmacists also work within the applicable legislative and regulatory frameworks.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

1. Advancing Clinical Care Practice (50%)

2. Teaching/Education (30%)

3. Service (20%)

You will support a workplace that embraces diversity, encourages teamwork and complies with all applicable standards and requirements. This position is located at 1001 Queen Street West.

Compensation & Benefits:

This role allows professionals to apply their expertise in a mission-driven environment dedicated to public health outcomes

If you are interested in this position, please ensure that you apply before 5pm EST of the closing date. If your application is received past 5pm EST of the closing date, your application will not be accepted.