Specialty Pharmacy Clinical Pharmacist

Ambulatory Clinical Pharmacist

The St. Elizabeth Healthcare Ambulatory Clinical Pharmacist is responsible for direct patient care via collaborative care agreements for disease states in dermatology, endocrinology, hepatitis C, inflammatory bowel disease, HIV, HIV PrEP, rheumatology, hyperlipidemia, osteoporosis, pulmonology, neurology, and more. Patients are seen by the pharmacist to help optimize specialty medication therapies, improving patient outcomes, safety, and cost utilization. The desirable candidate for this position has Board Certification in Ambulatory Care Pharmacy, a PGY2 pharmacy residency in Ambulatory Care Pharmacy, or a minimum of three years of experience in a similar setting. The Outpatient Pharmacist provides medications and counseling upon presentation of a prescription prescribed by a registered healthcare practitioner to the patients, ensuring accuracy and safety while monitoring for any intervention that might be needed. The pharmacist also counsels and recommends over the counter products to our patients assuring there are no pharmacologic or physiologic contraindications. In addition, they maintain sound accounting practices and oversee the process in the outpatient pharmacy. The Outpatient Pharmacist must be able to provide top notch customer service to the customers while being an educational resource for them. The outpatient pharmacist may be required to be on call to support the specialty pharmacy. Demonstrate respect, dignity, kindness and empathy in each encounter with all patients, families, visitors and other employees regardless of cultural background.

Job Description

• Provide top notch customer service following AIDET
• Reviews and monitors patient treatment medications for appropriateness based on current clinical and institutional guidelines as well as patient-specific criteria
• Provides final professional review and verification of prescription filling and offsite facility orders. Assures timeliness and accuracy of filling and that all processing has a pharmacist final check.
• Provides accurate, adequate and timely drug information to patients, the medical staff, and nursing staff.
• Supervises and directs Interns and Technicians: Provides active direct supervision and mentoring of Interns and Technicians as guided by ICARE values. This includes monitoring timely completion of tasks, redirection of staff to meet patient needs and encouraging use of the AIDET model in interaction with staff, patients and visitors. Reports behavior not responsive to direct intervention to the leadership team
• Maintains inventory and responsible for order management, ensuring the product is on hand and ordered from the appropriate wholesaler. Follows sound accounting principles. Contributes to financial contribution and assures department is meeting budgeted goals
• Act as a liaison to other departments within the healthcare system including but not limited to: Hospice, Social Service, SDS, Meds to Beds, Specialty Pharmacy and provider offices as well as any other departments.
• Maintains Professional Competency: Maintains licensure. Completes all departmental competency/skills assessment requirements. Maintains current knowledge of pharmacy practice. Seeks to develop and maintain skills in areas of specialized practice.
• Assures adherence to regulatory guidelines (State Board of Pharmacy, Drug Enforcement Agency, Centers for Medicare/Medicaid services, Food and Drug Administration, The Joint Commission)
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education, Credentials, Licenses

• Graduate from NABP accredited pharmacy college
• Current US pharmacist license in state where work is being performed.

Specialized Knowledge

Problem solving and critical thinking skills.

Multitask

Good customer service skills

Good communication skills

Familiar with Current Practice Standards (ASHP)

Kind and Length of Experience

Previous Pharmacy Experience

FLSA Status

Non-Exempt

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