Clinical Pharmacist

About the role

Option Care Health, Inc. is the nation’s largest independent home and alternate site infusion services provider, with over 8,000 team members including 5,000 clinicians serving patients in all 50 states. The Clinical Pharmacist is an entry‑level position responsible for providing safe and appropriate pharmacy services to Option Care patients in accordance with company policies, pharmacy practice standards, and applicable regulations. The role coordinates patient services with Nursing, monitors patient progress, educates patients and caregivers, and ensures continuity of pharmaceutical care across settings.

Responsibilities

• Determines the suitability of individual patients for home care; collects and organizes patient‑specific information; assesses suitability per Option Care policies.
• Designs, recommends, monitors and evaluates patient‑specific pharmacy care plans; makes recommendations for modifications in prescribed medication therapy or monitoring parameters.
• Collects and organizes information to prevent, detect, and resolve medication‑related problems; identifies appropriate monitoring parameters.
• Completes nutritional assessments and makes appropriate recommendations.
• Modifies pharmacy care plans based on evaluation of monitoring data and other patient‑specific information; applies pharmacokinetic principles and assesses laboratory values.
• Provides medication‑use education to staff, professionals, patients and caregivers using effective patient education techniques.
• Ensures continuity of pharmaceutical care to and from home and other patient‑care settings; uses systematic procedures to communicate pertinent patient information.
• Prepares and dispenses medications using appropriate techniques and following Option Care policies; calibrates equipment; prepares medications with correct concentration, stability, storage, and labeling; adheres to safety and quality assurance practices.
• Complies with state/federal laws and USP standards, including DEA controlled‑substance regulations; manages perpetual inventory systems for schedule II narcotics and other diversion‑prone medications.
• Manages use, maintenance, and troubleshooting of medication administration and related equipment; programs equipment, advises others, ensures accuracy of support personnel work.
• Participates in assessing, managing, and reporting medication‑related incidents and equipment errors/failures; completes QAR documents per policy; monitors and reports inventory discrepancies.
• Provides concise, applicable, timely responses to drug‑information requests from health‑care providers and patients; formulates responses based on literature analysis.
• Attends educational seminars or CEU opportunities to maintain professional competency and comply with state‑mandated CEU requirements.
• Manages use of investigational drug products per regulations and Option Care policies.
• Utilizes pharmacy support personnel effectively; prioritizes workload and organizes workflow; ensures accuracy of support personnel work.
• Maintains confidentiality of patient and proprietary information; observes legal and ethical guidelines for safeguarding confidentiality.

Requirements

Graduate of an accredited School of Pharmacy; current, active Pharmacy license granted by the State Board of Pharmacy. One of the following: at least 1 year experience in sterile IV admixture procedures; knowledge of non‑sterile compounding, immunizations and medication therapy management (MTM); completion of an ASHP‑accredited Pharmacy Residency Program; completion of an Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience associated with an accredited school of pharmacy; or equivalent experience approved by the VP of Pharmacy and/or SVP of Clinical Services.

Qualifications

• Preferred: Completion of an ASHP‑accredited Pharmacy Residency Program or an Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience associated with an accredited school of pharmacy.
• Preferred: Experience in home care, hospital or other clean‑room setting.
• Management: At least 1 year of experience in indirect management of team members, including assisting in development, training and assignment of work/projects to other team members.

Skills

• Basic level skill in Microsoft Word (opening documents, cut/paste, font/size changes, margins, columns, sorting, bullets, pictures, dates, find/replace, undo, spell check, track changes, review pane, printing).
• Basic level skill in Microsoft Excel (opening workbooks, inserting rows, font/style/size, formatting cells as currency, copy/paste/save, aligning text, selecting cells, renaming worksheets, inserting columns, chart styles, inserting worksheets, setting margins, page orientation, spell check, printing worksheets).
• Basic skill level in Microsoft PowerPoint (inserting/rearranging/hiding/deleting slides, navigating between slides, increasing list level, adding/centering/editing text, changing views, inserting tables or notes, moving objects,