Clinical Pharmacist - Remote

About the role

The Clinical Pharmacist is an entry-level position within the field of clinical pharmacy, focusing on providing safe and appropriate pharmacy services to Option Care patients. This role involves coordinating patient services with the Nursing Department, monitoring patient progress, 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.
• Affords assessments of 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 assessments 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Makes sure the monitoring of and reporting of discrepancies in perpetual inventory systems for schedule II narcotics and other medications subject to diversion.
• Provides concise, applicable, and timely responses 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.

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 Senior Vice President (SVP) of Clinical Services.

Qualifications

• Basic level skill in Microsoft Word (opening a document, cutting, pasting, 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 (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 (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.

Schedule

Will be willing to travel up to 5% of the time for business purposes (within state).

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