Outpatient Pharmacist ( Full-time, Days)

Responsibilities

• Assists healthcare providers in utilizing drug therapy safely and effectively through medication prescription review and fulfillment, patient monitoring and patient education.
• Supervises pharmacy interns, students and technicians in their tasks, and verifies all work completed by those personnel.
• Interprets and evaluates all medication prescriptions and assures for safe and effective medication, dose, route and schedule for administration with clarification as deemed necessary.
• Reviews prescriptions and suggests alternate therapies as appropriate; demonstrates this activity by preparing clinical intervention documentation.
• Prepares and dispenses medications in accordance with professional practice guidelines, state pharmacy laws, and regulatory standards in addition to departmental policies and procedures.
• Advises the provider and patient regarding the contents, therapeutic action, utilization and possible adverse reactions or interactions of medication.
• Performs computer order entry functions as assigned.
• Controls the disposition of narcotics, other controlled substances, and dangerous drugs as required by state and federal regulations.
• Actively participates in medication safety programs; identifies opportunities to improve safety, reports errors and adverse drug events, and implements system‑based changes.
• Serves as a role model of customer service by responding constructively to the needs of hospital staff using a respectful communication style consistent with professional collaboration.
• Serves as a training resource for new employees and assists in evaluating their progress; may assist in preparing work schedules, setting work priorities and making work assignments as directed.
• Mentors pharmacy students in applicable educational experiential training programs.
• Responds to drug information and poison information requests as required.
• Prepares dosette and cassette boxes, usually for the elderly but also for those with memory learning difficulties, where tablets are placed in compartments for specified days of the week.
• Provides specialist health check services, such as measuring and fitting compression hosiery, monitoring blood pressure and cholesterol levels, diabetes screening and pregnancy testing.
• Sells healthcare and other products, such as toiletries and cosmetics; promotes sales and develops the business.

Requirements

• B.S. Pharmacy or Pharm D required.
• Current Pharmacist licensure or eligible to reciprocate in the State of Pennsylvania required.
• Immunization certification through an accredited organization (American Pharmacists Association – APhA).
• Health care provider in good standing with Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal and state health insurance programs (i.e., not excluded from participation in Medicare, Medicaid, or any other federal or state health insurance program).
• Previous retail pharmacy experience preferred.
• Strong concentration skills; ability to voluntarily sustain concentration on a task over an extended period.
• Ability to attend to and process multiple bits of information simultaneously; organize and categorize information for later recall.
• Ability to apply logical or scientific thinking to define problems; think abstractly, form concepts, use categories, generalize, apply procedural rules and general principles; aware of subtle or intrinsic aspects of a problem.
• Ability to collect data, establish facts, draw valid conclusions; think creatively with inventiveness, experimentation, intuition; deal with concrete and abstract variables.
• Leadership, control and planning: accept responsibility for leadership, direction, control, planning, negotiating, organizing, directing, supervising, formulating practices, or making final decisions.
• Ability to continuously perform the same type of work for extended periods according to set procedures, sequence or pace.
• Ability to perform under stress when confronted with emergency, critical, unusual, or dangerous situations, or when working speed and sustained attention are critical.
• Ability to perform a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure involving significant differences in technologies, techniques, procedures, environmental factors, physical demands, or work situations.
• Ability to exchange information with others clearly and concisely; present ideas, facts and technical information.
• Ability to maintain relationships that facilitate task accomplishment; cooperate and resolve conflicts; recognize needs and be sensitive of others.

Pay

Sign‑on bonus of up to $10,000.

Schedule

Day Shift: Monday–Friday, hours can start as early as 6:30 am–5:00 pm; other days 7:00 am–5:30 pm. Weekends: Saturday and Sunday, 7:00 am–3:00 pm. Additional site schedules: Kissel Hill 7:45 am–7:45 pm; Suburban Pavilion 7:05 am–5:05 pm; Columbia 7: