Clinical Pharmacist - Part-Time

About the role

The Clinical Pharmacist – PT, PD, CA is an entry-level position within the practice of clinical pharmacy in the alternate setting. This role is responsible for providing safe and appropriate pharmacy services to Option Care patients, coordinating patient services with the Nursing Department, and educating patients, caregivers, staff, and other professionals about 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.
• Assesses patients' suitability for home care in accordance with Option Care policies.
• Designs, recommends, monitors and evaluates patient-specific pharmacy care plans for the pharmacotherapy of home care patients.
• Collects and organizes patient-specific information needed to prevent, detect, and resolve medication-related problems and to make appropriate medication therapy recommendations.
• Completes nutritional assessment of patients and makes appropriate recommendations.
• 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.
• Uses effective patient education techniques to provide counseling to home care patients and/or their caregivers.
• Ensures continuity of pharmaceutical care 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.
• Makes sure the medication contains all necessary and/or appropriate ancillary labels.
• Inspects the final medication before dispensing.
• Complies with state/federal laws and USP standards, including Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) controlled substance regulations set forth by the state and DEA.
• Complies with policies regarding the perpetual inventory systems for schedule II narcotics, controlled substances and other medications subject to diversion.
• 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.
• Makes sure to monitor and report discrepancies in perpetual inventory systems for schedule II narcotics and other medications subject to diversion.
• Provides concise, applicable, and timely response to requests for drug information from health care providers and home care patients.
• Formulates responses to drug information requests based on analysis of the literature.
• Attends educational seminars or participates in other CEU opportunities in order to promote professional competency and complies with state mandated CEU requirements.
• Manages the use of investigational drug products according to established regulations and Option Care policies and procedures.
• Utilizes pharmacy support personnel effectively.
• Prioritizes the workload and organizes the workflow, taking into account available resources.
• Ensures the accuracy of the work of pharmacy support personnel.
• In all activities, complies with accreditation, legal, regulatory, and safety requirements.
• Maintains confidentiality of patient and proprietary information.
• Observes legal and ethical guidelines for safeguarding the confidentiality of patient and proprietary Option Care information.

Requirements

• Graduate of an accredited School of Pharmacy.
• Current, active Pharmacy license as granted by the State Board of Pharmacy.
• One of the following:
  • At least one year of 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.
  • Equivalent experience as approved by the Vice President (VP) of Pharmacy and/or Sr. Vice President (SVP) of Clinical Services.

Qualifications

• Access to a reliable means of transportation which will enable the incumbents to make home visits to treat/attend to their patients.
• 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).

Preferred Qualifications & Interests (PQIs)

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

Benefits

• 401k Retirement Savings With Company Match.
• Paid Time off.
• Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Mental Health Services.
• Award/Recognition Programs.
• myFlexPay.