Clinical Pharmacist - Medication Use Strategy (Hybrid)

Shape medication-use decisions that reach far beyond a single patient encounter. As a Clinical Pharmacist on UVA Health's Medication Use Strategy team, you will help solve complex medication challenges and translate clinical evidence, operational realities, and stakeholder input into safer, more effective medication practices across the health system.

This opportunity is designed for an experienced pharmacist who enjoys strategic problem-solving, project leadership, and multidisciplinary collaboration. Rather than focusing on routine order verification or direct patient care, you will influence formulary strategy, medication utilization, shortage response, committee governance, and implementation across inpatient, ambulatory, infusion, and specialty environments.

The Role

No two days are exactly alike in this highly visible, project-driven position. You will work across UVA Health to evaluate medication-use questions, identify optimization opportunities, coordinate decisions, and move initiatives from recommendation through implementation. Your primary service-line focus will include ambulatory care, infusion centers, Hematology/Oncology, and related outpatient clinical areas.

In an average day, you may prepare for a pharmacy committee, address an urgent drug shortage, analyze an infusion-center utilization question, or bring clinical and operational partners together around a system-wide improvement. You will balance planned strategic work with emerging medication needs, making flexibility, organization, and sound clinical judgment essential.

Key contributions include:

• Support enterprise-wide medication utilization, formulary, and stewardship initiatives.

• Develop and coordinate drug shortage mitigation strategies in partnership with clinical and operational stakeholders.

• Lead or support pharmacy-related committees by preparing agendas and materials, documenting decisions and action items, and facilitating implementation.

• Evaluate medication-use requests and identify opportunities to improve quality, consistency, and responsible resource utilization.

• Partner with pharmacists, physicians, nursing professionals, operational leaders, and other stakeholders across inpatient and outpatient settings.

• Support medication management initiatives affecting ambulatory clinics, infusion centers, and Hematology/Oncology services.

• Lead multiple concurrent projects while maintaining clear communication, dependable follow-through, and alignment among stakeholders.

• Apply clinical pharmacy expertise to complex questions that may affect care delivery across multiple departments.

• Build trusted relationships and become a strategic resource for medication utilization, governance, and implementation.

This role follows a Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. schedule. Initial training and orientation are conducted onsite to support successful integration into UVA Health systems, workflows, and committee structures. After demonstrated competency and independence, the position transitions to a hybrid work arrangement.

Why UVA Health

UVA Health offers the reach of an integrated academic health system and the collaborative environment of a pharmacy enterprise that supports acute care, ambulatory clinics, infusion services, specialty pharmacy, community partners, and advanced clinical programs. Here, your recommendations can influence medication practices across an organization committed to patient care, research, education, innovation, and community engagement.

The Medication Use Strategy team serves as a connector across departments, bringing stakeholders together to address complex challenges and create unified, sustainable change. You will join a close-knit, collaborative, and high-performing team with supportive leadership that values trust, professional autonomy, curiosity, and thoughtful problem-solving.

What makes this opportunity distinctive:

• System-wide impact: Influence medication strategy and patient care across a major academic health system.

• Strategic clinical practice: Expand your impact beyond traditional dispensing and staffing responsibilities.

• Meaningful ownership: Lead initiatives from analysis and committee review through implementation and follow-up.

• Broad professional exposure: Collaborate with clinical specialists, operational leaders, multidisciplinary committees, and service-line stakeholders.

• Complex, engaging work: Address formulary questions, utilization opportunities, medication shortages, and evolving organizational priorities.

• Professional growth: Build expertise in enterprise medication strategy, governance, implementation, and cross-functional project leadership.

• Supportive onboarding: Develop familiarity with UVA Health systems, Epic workflows, organizational structures, and medication-management processes before transitioning to greater independence.

• Hybrid flexibility: Move to a hybrid schedule following the onsite onboarding and competency period.

• Relocation assistance may be available for qualified candidates.

Pharmacists with strong health-system, inpatient, ambulatory, clinical specialty, medication utilization, drug information, formulary, informatics-adjacent, or operational improvement experience may find this role especially compelling. Infusion or Hematology/Oncology experience is valuable but not required for a pharmacist who brings clinical depth, adaptability, project leadership, and a commitment to responsible medication stewardship.

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