Clinical Pharmacist - Tempe

About the role

The Clinical Pharmacist is an entry-level position within the practice of clinical pharmacy in the alternate setting. They are 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.
• Collects 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.
• 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.
• Prepares and dispenses medications using appropriate techniques and following Option Care policies and procedures.
• Manages the use, maintenance, and troubleshooting of medication administration equipment and medication-related equipment used in the management of home care patients.
• Monitors and reports 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.
• Maintains confidentiality of patient and proprietary 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 Senior Vice President (SVP) of Clinical Services.

Qualifications

• Basic level skill in Microsoft Word (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 (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