Clinical Pharmacy Specialist- Ambulatory Care

Responsibilities

• Provides expert level care for medication management through active participation on the healthcare team in the ambulatory setting as an advanced practice provider.
• Collaborative practice model is utilized for direct patient care activities, including selection of individualized drug therapy, implementation of patient-specific medication regimens, laboratory monitoring, and provision of comprehensive medication education to maximize therapeutic benefit and minimize risks of adverse events.
• Population health management strategies are utilized to improve medication-related outcomes and reduce hospitalizations for at-risk populations.
• Conducts educational activities, applies principles of performance improvement, advances pharmacy practice, and optimizes care in a cost-effective manner.
• Maintains patient panel for all common ambulatory care disease states, including diabetes, anticoagulation, and other complex disease states for which active collaborative drug therapy management protocols are in place.
• Serves as a primary preceptor for pharmacy residents and students.
• Participates in on-call and after-hours coverage on a rotating basis.

Essential Functions

• Performs disease state management, comprehensive medication review, and adverse drug event prevention and management for patients in the ambulatory setting, including all approved collaborative practice protocols.
• Completes thorough patient assessments and applies principles of evidence-based medicine to establish patient-specific therapeutic drug regimens.
• Critically evaluates disease states and adjusts medication therapy to optimize regimens and improve clinical outcomes.
• Ensures utilization of cost-effective medication therapy and patient access to treatment.
• Provides essential medication education to patients to promote engagement in self-management activities, medication adherence, and safety.
• Demonstrates accurate and thorough documentation skills in the electronic medical record.
• Facilitates pharmacist-to-provider communication of clinical interventions and recommendations.
• Provides therapeutic consultation to medical providers to promote optimal medication management.
• Identifies and escalates issues outside of pharmacist’s scope of practice to appropriate physician for further assessment.
• Adheres to clinical practices approved by the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee (e.g. collaborative practice agreements, clinical pharmacy protocols).
• Contributes to the total body of knowledge of pharmacy through publication and/or education, including presentations, in-services, or lectures to the community, nursing, physician, pharmacy, and local or national meetings.
• Provides educational information to physicians, nursing staff, and other allied health care professionals.
• Acts as a network resource and drug information expert in the specialty area of practice.
• Provides detailed drug information and education to the healthcare team, pharmacy, patients, and community.
• Actively participates in department and network-based committees and effectively communicates with stakeholders.
• Develops and applies evidence-based medication guidelines and/or protocols, medication use evaluations, and disease-based evaluations.
• Collects and analyzes medication-use data per predefined criteria and formulates appropriate recommendations for implementation.
• Precepts PGY1 and PGY2 Pharmacy Residents and pharmacy students.
• Mets preceptor criteria established by American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP).
• Contributes to staff development, including assisting with training of new team members and consulting on complex patient cases.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Graduate of an ACPE-accredited School of Pharmacy with a minimum of Doctor of Pharmacy degree or equivalent experience.
• Completion of a PGY1 pharmacy practice residency (ASHP accredited) and PGY2 Ambulatory Care pharmacy residency (ASHP accredited) Required.
• Completion of a PGY1 pharmacy practice residency (ASHP accredited) plus three (3) years of clinical pharmacy experience in the ambulatory care setting Required.
• 5 years of clinical pharmacy experience in the ambulatory care setting. Required.
• Pharmacist - License Registered (RPh) Licensed to practice pharmacy in the state of Arizona. Upon Hire Required.
• Board Certified Ambulatory Care Pharmacist (BCACP) 1 Year Required.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) - Certification Preferred.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) - Certification Preferred.
• Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Specialty Certification - Certification Additional certifications that support advanced practice ambulatory care pharmacy, including: Board Certified Advanced Diabetes Management (BC-ADM), Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist (CDCES), Certified Anticoagulation Care Provider (CACP), Board Certified Geriatric Pharmacist (BCGP), Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist Preferred.