Career Center

You.

You bring your body, mind, heart and spirit to your work as a Pharmacist.

Your pharmacy knowledge is second to none: your patients feel it in the expertise you share. Families feel it in your communication. Colleagues feel it in your support.

You know when to move quickly. When to sit quietly. When to laugh loudly.

Youâ™re generous with your thoughts, your partnerships and especially your knowledge, because your coordination of all things drug related is crucial.

Youâ™re great at what you do, but you want to be part of something even greater. Because you believe that while individuals can be strong, the right team is invincible.

Us.

St. James Healthcare is part of SCL Health, a faith-based, nonprofit healthcare organization that focuses on person-centered care. Our 98-bed hospital is the only full-service acute care facility in Butte, and weâ™re the largest hospital serving a seven-county area. Our mission is to bring health and hope to the poor, the vulnerable, our communities and each other.

Benefits are one of the ways we encourage health for you and your family. Our generous package includes medical, dental and vision coverage. But health is more than a well-working body: it encompasses body, mind and social well-being. To that end, weâ™ve launched a Healthy Living program to address your holistic health. Healthy Living includes financial incentives, digital tools, tobacco cessation, classes, counseling and paid time off. We also offer financial wellness tools and retirement planning.

We.

Together weâ™ll align mission and careers, values and workplace. Weâ™ll honor each otherâ™s dignity and surpass the standards we set. Weâ™ll encourage joy, demand safety and take pride in our integrity.

Weâ™ll laugh at each otherâ™s jokes (even the bad ones). Weâ™ll hello and high five. Weâ™ll celebrate milestones and acknowledge the value of spirituality in healing.

Weâ™re proud of what we know, which includes how much there is to learn.

Your day.

As a Pharmacist you need to know how to:

• Demonstrate competency in reviewing, verifying Physician's orders to ensure that correct dose, frequency, and route have been prescribed. At the time of order entry/verification, using patient profile, screen for medication duplications, drug interactions and allergies.


• Demonstrate competency in reviewing and interpreting and verifying Physicians orders for all LVP, IVPB, TPN, PPN, selected IV pushes, and Chemotherapy. Use patient profiles to assure correct dose, frequency, and route. Screening for medication duplications, drug interactions, allergies, and incompatibilities. Use aseptic technique for all intravenous admixing.


• Demonstrate a basic understanding of the pharmacology and pathophysiology involved which relate to the patient's disease state. Perform clinical duties within the parameters defined by the Medical Staff approved protocols.


• Demonstrate competency in reviewing patient profiles to assure correct dose, frequency, route of administration, allergies, interactions and duplications.


• Understand and perform all technician duties when called upon to fill a technician shift.


• Respond to "Code Blue" and "Trauma Codes" immediately and establish recording timeline of event.


• Be responsible for control and replacement of all drug products in facility.


• Demonstrate competency in providing guidance and insight to Pharmacy Technicians and Students (Interns and Externs).


• Act as educational resource for patients and all health care providers.


• Communicate with other departments concerning drugs and drug related problems.


• Provide specific drug information to patients to aid the patient in proper use of medications outside the health care facility (i.e. Cardiac Rehab, Coumadin Education, and Diabetic Education).


• Perform Pharmacy Tech duties when Pharmacy Tech is not available.


• Participate in department projects, QA and DUR's and complete duties in a timely fashion.


• Be responsible for specific projects or areas of responsibility which change and evolve. These areas of responsibility or projects include; CQI, P&T Committee, TCU, Computer Updates, DUE, Adr, Outpatient Medicaid, Narcotics QA, Non-Formulary drug requests, scheduling, Omnicell, maintain Formulary, and other committees as required.

Your experience.

We hire people, not resumes. But we also expect excellence, which is why we require:

• Graduate of School of Pharmacy - RPh or Pharm D, required


• Current Montana Licensure or eligibility to obtain, required

Your next move.

Now that you know more about being a Pharmacist on our team we hope youâ™ll join us. At SCL Health youâ™ll reaffirm every day how much you love this work, and why you were called to it in the first place.