Clinical Pharmacist

About the role

The Clinical Pharmacist is an entry-level position within the practice of clinical pharmacy in the alternate setting. This role works closely with the Nursing Department to coordinate patient services, monitor patient progress, and educate patients, caregivers, staff, and other professionals on appropriate medication use.

Responsibilities

• Determines the suitability of individual patients for home care.
• Collections and organizes all patient-specific information needed to determine the suitability of patients for home care.
• Affords medical condition and prescribed medication therapy suitable for home care services and prognosis with clearly defined outcome goals.
• Designs, recommends, monitors and evaluates patient-specific pharmacy care plans for the pharmacotherapy of home care patients.
• Makes suitable recommendations for modifications in the prescribed medication therapy or monitoring parameters for a home care patient.
• Collects and organizes patient-specific information needed to prevent, detect, and resolve medication-related problems and to make appropriate medication therapy recommendations.
• Appropriately identifies monitoring parameters for each patient.
• Completes nutritional assessment of patients and makes appropriate recommendations.
• Modifies the pharmacy care plans for home care patients based on evaluation of monitoring data and other pertinent patient-specific information.
• Competent in use of pharmacokinetic principles and formulas. Competent in assessing patient laboratory values.
• Provides medication-use education to Option Care staff, other professionals, home care patients and/or their caregivers.
• Ensures continuity of pharmaceutical care to and from the home and other patient-care settings.
• Uses a systematic procedure to communicate pertinent patient information to and from the home and other patient-care settings.
• Prepares and dispenses medications using appropriate techniques and following Option Care policies and procedures.
• Accurately calibrates equipment. Prepares medications so they are appropriately concentrated, without incompatibilities, stable, and appropriately stored.
• Adheres to appropriate safety and quality assurance practices. Prepares labels that conform to the organization's policies and procedures. Medication contains all necessary and/or appropriate ancillary labels. Inspects the final medication before dispensing. Assures presence of authorization to dispense.
• Complies with state/federal laws and USP standards, including Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) controlled substance regulations set forth by the state and DEA.
• Manages the use, maintenance, and troubleshooting of medication administration equipment and medication-related equipment used in the management of home care patients.
• Accurately programs, maintains and gives advice to others on the use and maintenance of all medication administration and medication-related equipment used by Option Care.
• Participates in the process for assessing, managing, and reporting medication-related incidents and equipment error and/or failures.
• Accurately completes QAR documents according to the Option Care policy.
• Maintains confidentiality of patient and proprietary information. Observes legal and ethical guidelines for safeguarding the confidentiality of patient and proprietary Option Care information.

Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited School of Pharmacy.
• Current, active Pharmacy license as granted by the State Board of Pharmacy.
• One of the following:
• (a) At least one year of experience in sterile IV admixture procedures
• (b) Knowledge of non-sterile compounding, immunizations and medication therapy management (MTM)
• (c) Completion of an ASHP accredited Pharmacy Residency Program
• (d) Completion of an Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience associated with an accredited school of pharmacy
• (e) Equivalent experience as approved by the Vice President (VP) of Pharmacy and/or Senior Vice President (SVP) of Clinical Services

Skills

• Experience providing customer service to internal and external customers, including meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• Basic level skill in Microsoft Word (for example: opening a document, cutting, pasting and aligning text, selecting font type and size, changing margins and column width, sorting, inserting bullets, pictures and dates, using find and replace, undo, spell check, track changes, review pane and/or print functions).
• Basic level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: opening a workbook, inserting a row, selecting font style and size, formatting cells as currency, using copy, paste and save functions, aligning text, selecting cells, renaming a worksheet, inserting a column, selecting a chart style, inserting a worksheet, setting margins, selecting page orientation, using spell check and/or printing worksheets).
• Basic skill level in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example: inserting, rearranging, hiding and deleting slides, navigating between slides, increasing list level, adding, centering and editing text, changing views, inserting a table or a note, moving objects, printing outline view and/or running a slide show).

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Bonding Time Off
• 401K Retirement Savings Plan with Company Match
• HSA Company Match
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Tuition Reimbursement
• myFlexPay
• Family Support
• Mental Health Services
• Company Paid Life Insurance
• Award/Recognition Programs

Pay

Salary to be determined by the applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

Pay Range is $112,439.64-$187,406.90