Omnicell/Wake Forest Industry Fellowship in Medication Management

Omnicell/Wake Forest Industry Fellowship in Medication Management

Location Wake Forest, NC

Job Category Marketing

Employment Duration Defined Term/Fixed-Term Contract

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Do you want to make a meaningful difference in the quality of healthcare? Omnicell is empowering health systems and pharmacies to radically transform the way they manage medications, so they can achieve the vision of the Autonomous Pharmacy. Thousands of hospitals, pharmacies, skilled nursing facilities and care homes trust Omnicell to provide continuous innovation. They need us to deliver solutions to meet the ever-evolving challenges of the healthcare landscape. We encourage creative problem solving and outside-the-box thinking that only a diverse, well-rounded workforce can bring.

Join us as we build on our powerful combination of advanced automation, predictive intelligence, and expert services to create a safer future for patients—one where medication errors are a thing of the past. You’ll be joining an organization whose culture encourages individual development, rewards intellectual curiosity, and embraces an inclusive environment. Join our growing company and help shape the future at Omnicell!

Omnicell/Wake Forest Industry Fellowship in Medication Management

The Omnicell Autonomous Pharmacy vision is a roadmap designed to develop a zero error, fully automated medication management infrastructure that empowers pharmacists, nurses, clinicians, and pharmacy staff to focus on patient and clinician satisfaction, leading to improved patient care, fewer errors, enhanced safety, and new opportunities for growth.

This fellowship position is offered by Omnicell in partnership with and housed at Wake Forest Baptist Health in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Duration will be 1 year, starting July 1, 2020, with the possibility of extension or post-fellowship hiring opportunities. This position will provide the training and experience needed to compete successfully for positions in pharmacy across the medication management industry.

The purpose of this fellowship is to develop research objectives, projects and proposals, undertake research and evaluate outcomes. Publications highly encouraged.

The Pharmacy Fellow will:

• Inform and catalyze the creation of the fully autonomous pharmacy in the medication management industry

• Act as principal investigator or co-investigator on research projects

• Develop research objectives, projects, and proposals

• Conduct individual or collaborative research projects

• Extend, transform and apply the knowledge acquired from scholarship to research appropriate to the discipline

• Writing or contributing to publications or disseminating research findings using media appropriate to the discipline

• Make presentations at conferences or exhibit work at other appropriate events

• Assess, interpret and evaluate outcomes of research

• Search literature to obtain articles, citations and other published information related to clinical research projects

• Develop new concepts and ideas to extend intellectual understanding

• Contribute to knowledge generation, knowledge exchange and knowledge transfer activities

• Contribute to written literature and publish outcomes

• Complete a fellowship project for presentation at a key conference/congress. Additionally, fellows may be asked to attend other relevant scientific conventions, regulatory conferences, and other travel as required for business needs related to the fellow’s responsibilities

• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of laws, regulations and policies as they relate to pharmacy practice and customer/patient confidentiality.

Fellows can expect learning opportunities in areas such as:

• Medication Inventory Management

• Medication Adherence

• Pharmacy Workflow Automation

• Business Intelligence

• Population Health

• Regulatory Compliance

• Pharmacy Operations

• Health Economics and Outcomes Research

Required Knowledge/Skills:

• Possess sufficient specialist knowledge in the pharmacy discipline to develop research programs and methodologies

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Able to communicate complex and conceptual ideas to a range of audiences

• Evidence of the ability to collaborate actively to complete research projects and advance thinking

• Able to balance the pressures of research, administrative demands and competing deadline

Basic Requirements

• Graduate degree from an accredited school of pharmacy, PharmD

• North Carolina pharmacist licensure in good standing (or eligibility for licensure)

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience in acute care hospital, non-acute care setting, or health system

• Completion of ASHP-accredited residency

• Evidence of published research in high-quality publications

• Experience in teaching at the undergraduate level

• Experience in managing research projects and teams

Special Requirements

• Able to travel and undertake duties at different healthcare organizations as required.

• Expected to work outside of normal office hours as needed.

Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.

Omnicell will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.