Advanced Practice Clinic Leader

The role of an APCL Pharmacy/Clinician Educator is to 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/Clinician Educator 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.

As a member of the Pharmacy Leadership Team, the APCL/Clinician Educator 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 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.

The Centre for Addiction Mental Health is Canada's largest mental health and addiction teaching hospital. CAMH combines clinical care, research, education, policy development and health promotion to help transform the lives of people affected by mental health and addiction issues. The Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy is Canada’s largest pharmacy school, and is both an educational leader and home to highly innovative research activity. Faculty within pharmacy practice teach in the PharmD, PharmD for Pharmacists and other programs. The Faculty is committed to exemplary teaching and educational leadership, advancing pharmacotherapeutic knowledge, innovative research and scholarship and service to the community.
- Key Accountabilities _

As this position is jointly funded by the CAMH and the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, it is expected that 49% of the role would involve activities related to Faculty work, which are indicated in **bold **and highlighted below.

1. Advancing Clinical Care Practice (40%)
- Provide leadership and expertise in the provision of pharmaceutical care to optimize patient outcomes.
- Lead the development and implementation of CAMH-wide and/or department specific policies, procedures, and guidelines to improve safe and evidence-based medication practices.
- Support the continuing education and professional development of pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and students, through scholarly activities.
- Enhance interprofessional and discipline specific professional development based on organizational needs, funding opportunities, Regulated Health Professions Act and other legislative changes, accreditation standards.
- Build the reputation of CAMH and in particular the Pharmacy Service as the leader in mental health and addictions

2. Teaching/Education (40%)
- **Responsible for teaching in the professional pharmacy curriculum in LDFP, including coordinating and teaching of pharmacotherapy courses, and/or other components of the program**:

- Provide on-site experiential training and mentorship to pharmacy residents and students (e.g., APPE, PharmD for Pharmacist students)
- Organize and participate in departmental education and professional development activities
- Disseminate knowledge at local, regional, national and international levels to reduce stigma towards mental health and addiction
- Advance the role of CAMH as a mental health and addictions practice leader, and the role of pharmacists in mental health and addictions treatment.
- Participate in continuous professional development activities (e.g. Opioid Dependence Treatment Core Course, TEACH Smoking Cessation Course)
- Engage in leadership or clinical development opportunities provided by CAMH or through external conference, workshop or other professional activities.

3. Service (20%)
- Participate in pharmacy or medication related organizational and departmental committees and working groups, including but not limited to Pharmacy and Therapeutics, Medication Safety, and others upon request of the Director, Pharmacy Services
- **Participating in service/committee work at the Faculty including Faculty Council, standing committees, sub-committees and working groups as requested by the Faculty**:

- Participate in evaluation of staff and faculty as required

**Job Requirements**
- Entry to practice degree in Pharmacy from an accredited university
- Advanced clinical degree in pharmacy, research-based MSc or Masters in related field (eg. MHA, MPH) is preferred. A hospital pharmacy residency is also considered an ass