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Clinical Pharmacist | M-F | Days

InnovAge · Charlottesville, VA · 2 mo ago
Healthcare$108k–$140k/yrFull-time

InnovAge offers an alternative to nursing homes through its Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), providing enrolled seniors with customized healthcare and social support at PACE Adult Day Health Centers.

Responsibilities

  • Provide direct patient care focused on medication management, consultation, and education for participants and caregivers—especially for high-risk individuals or when addressing medication-related concerns to support understanding, adherence, and participant goals of care.
  • Serve as an embedded clinical partner to primary care providers, advanced practice providers, and interdisciplinary care teams to co-manage medication therapy, support clinical decision-making, and optimize individual participant medication regimens, promoting safe, effective, and financially responsible use of medications.
  • Lead and contribute to organizational initiatives focused on enhancing medication use practices, advancing quality improvement efforts, and supporting evidence-based, cost-effective therapeutic strategies.
  • Lead medication stewardship efforts through deprescribing, reduction of medication burden, optimization of high-risk medication use, and alignment of therapies with participant goals of care.
  • Actively participate in interdisciplinary team (IDT) meetings, morning meetings, and other participant-centered clinic meetings to provide medication-related expertise, conduct comprehensive medication reviews, and identify opportunities to improve medication safety, appropriateness, adherence, and therapeutic outcomes.
  • Utilize participant-level and population-based data to identify medication-related risk, prioritize high-risk participants, and inform targeted interventions that improve medication safety, therapeutic outcomes, and quality of care.
  • Serve as the center medication expert, offering drug information and clinical education to participants, providers, and other healthcare professionals.
  • Collaborate with pharmacy operations teams to address medication access barriers, therapeutic substitutions, and participant-specific medication concerns.
  • Participate in medication-related quality improvement, performance monitoring, and practice improvement activities with center leaders, pharmacy operations, and vendor partners to support safe, effective, and compliant medication use, consistent with applicable CMS, PACE, state, and federal requirements.
  • Document all clinical activities, medication reviews, recommendations, and interventions in the medical record in accordance with organizational policies and regulatory requirements.
  • Perform additional duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Requirements

  • BS Pharmacy or PharmD degree with active and in good standing pharmacist licensure in state(s) of practice.
  • Advanced residency training (PGY1) and/or 3 years of ambulatory care experience.
  • Board certification (BCGP, BCPS, or BCACP) within 3 years of hire.

Qualifications

  • Minimum 1-year experience in ambulatory care and/or older adult population (preferred).
  • Experience working on a multidisciplinary clinical team (preferred).
  • NM Market: Pharmacist Clinician certification (preferred).

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Short and long-term disability.
  • Life insurance and AD&D.
  • Supplemental life insurance.
  • Flexible spending accounts.
  • 401(k) savings plan with company match.
  • Paid time off and company-paid holidays.

Pay

Posted pay range: $107,600 - $140,000.

Attention Florida applicants: This position requires a background screening through the Florida Care Provider Background Screening Clearinghouse. For more information, visit the Clearinghouse Education and Awareness website.

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