System Clinical Pharmacy Specialist - OPAT/COpAT - Remote

Summary
Clinical Pharmacy Specialists are responsible for targeted interdisciplinary programs and clinical services and ensure pharmaceutical care programs are appropriately integrated throughout the Baptist Health system. In these clinical roles, Clinical Pharmacy Specialists participate in all necessary aspects of the medication-use system while supporting comprehensive and individualized pharmaceutical care in their assigned areas. They also serve as clinical resources and liaisons to other departments, hospital personnel, and external groups. In their role, they may conduct clinical research and practice advancement projects, as well as patient care quality and regulatory compliance initiatives designed to improve medication-use processes or pharmacy practice.

The Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – OPAT/COpAT will serve as the subject matter expert for outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) and complex outpatient antimicrobial therapy (COpAT) services across the health system. This role is responsible for supporting safe transitions of care for patients requiring antimicrobial therapy after discharge, including collaboration with infectious diseases providers, care management, infusion services, ambulatory clinics, home health agencies, skilled nursing facilities, and community pharmacies. The specialist will support the development, implementation, maintenance, and optimization of OPAT/COpAT workflows, monitoring programs, clinical pathways, and quality initiatives to improve patient safety, reduce readmissions, and optimize antimicrobial utilization.
Job Description:

Baptist Health is looking for a remote System Clinical Pharmacy Specialist (Pharmacist) to join our Central Pharmacy team!

- Collaborates with the System Manager of Antimicrobial Stewardship, Infectious Diseases physicians, ambulatory leadership, care management, infusion services, and other interdisciplinary stakeholders to develop, implement, and maintain evidence-based OPAT/COpAT services throughout the health system.

- Assists with development and standardization of OPAT/COpAT workflows, clinical pathways, documentation standards, and monitoring processes across inpatient and ambulatory settings.

- Facilitates safe transitions of care for patients discharged on antimicrobial therapy through coordination with inpatient teams, ambulatory infusion centers, home infusion agencies, dialysis centers, skilled nursing facilities, and home health providers.

- Reviews antimicrobial regimens, laboratory monitoring plans, vascular access considerations, culture data, and duration of therapy recommendations to ensure safe and effective outpatient antimicrobial management.

- Monitors patients receiving OPAT/COpAT for therapeutic effectiveness, adverse drug events, laboratory abnormalities, drug interactions, adherence concerns, and line-related complications.

- Supports timely identification and intervention for patients at risk for antimicrobial-related complications, dosing errors, medication interactions, hospital readmission, or therapy failure.

- Contributes to the development and maintenance of OPAT/COpAT dashboards, quality metrics, operational metrics, and outcome reporting.

- Assists with regulatory and accreditation preparedness related to antimicrobial stewardship, ambulatory pharmacy services, and transitions of care.

- Works collaboratively with microbiology laboratory, infection prevention, care coordination, ambulatory clinics, and Epic support teams to optimize reporting, documentation, and clinical decision support tools related to OPAT/COpAT workflows.

- Demonstrates expertise in infectious diseases pharmacotherapy, outpatient antimicrobial management, transitions of care, and antimicrobial stewardship principles.

- Understands the workflow of front-line healthcare personnel involved in outpatient antimicrobial therapy management, including inpatient units, ambulatory clinics, infusion services, emergency departments, urgen