Clinical Pharmacist Per Diem Mail Order

About the Role

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives. The Pharmacy Direct Staff Pharmacist ensures the quality assurance of provided pharmacy services, focusing on the safe and efficient dispensing of correct medications to patients. This role involves medication compliance monitoring, chronic disease state management, patient consultation, and provider communications as part of an interdisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Fills prescriptions, resolves discrepancies in patient therapy, and follows up on problems.
• Utilizes clinical data to evaluate physician orders and ensure appropriate therapy.
• Provides and documents drug information and patient counseling.
• Documents interventions, adverse drug reactions (ADRs), and medication errors.
• Directs and utilizes personnel including technicians, aides, and clerical staff.
• Maintains adequate medication supply in the individual work area.
• Participates in Pharmacy staff in-services and meetings related to system-wide and healthcare setting programs.
• Operates and troubleshoots automated dispensing systems, as needed.
• Advises prescribers on alternatives for non-formulary drugs.
• Utilizes Outpatient and/or Inpatient computerized systems to enter and access patient care information.
• Participates in quality management and utilization review programs.
• May coordinate the work of a small group for projects, policy reviews, or standard operating procedures.
• May assist in the development, implementation, and execution of the pharmacy staff training curriculum.
• Participates in the orientation and training of new pharmacists, certified pharmacy technicians, and/or pharmacy interns.
• May be asked to cross-cover or perform other duties as needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required. Doctoral degree in Pharmacy (PharmD) preferred.
• Massachusetts Pharmacist license required.
• 0-1 years of related work experience required.
• Basic understanding of insurance and adjudication processes.
• Advanced skills with Microsoft applications (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access) and other web-based applications. Ability to produce complex documents, perform analysis, and maintain databases.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in retail, mail order, or academic outpatient pharmacy.
• Pharmacy management experience.
• Knowledge of inventory processes.

Skills

• Decision Making: Ability to make decisions guided by precedents, policies, and objectives. Regularly makes decisions affecting a department or functional area.
• Problem Solving: Ability to address highly varied, complex, and non-recurring problems using innovative and creative diagnostic techniques.
• Independence of Action: Ability to set goals and accomplish defined results with some guidelines.
• Written Communications: Ability to summarize and communicate moderately complex information in varied written formats.
• Oral Communications: Ability to comprehend and communicate complex verbal information to staff, patients, families, and external customers.
• Knowledge: In-depth knowledge of concepts, practices, and policies to handle complex situations.
• Team Work: Ability to lead collaborative teams for larger projects both internal and external to the Medical Center.
• Customer Service: Ability to provide high-level customer service and staff training to meet standards and resolve service issues.
• Age-Based Competencies: Competence in providing patient care across all age groups: Neonatal (birth to 6 months), Youth (6 months to 16 years), Young Adult (16-30 years), Middle Age (30-60 years), Elderly (60+).

Physical Requirements

Light work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force frequently. Some elements of the job are sedentary, but the employee will be required to stand for periods of time or move throughout the hospital campus.

Pay

The pay range for this position is $58.00 - $73.56 per hour. Actual compensation is determined based on factors such as seniority, education, training, relevant experience, certifications, geography, job responsibilities, and other applicable factors. Compensation may exceed the base hourly rate depending on shift differentials, call pay, premium pay, overtime, and other additional pay practices.

Additional Information

As a health care organization, Beth Israel Lahey Health requires all staff to be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.