Pharmacist

About the role

KabaFusion is an innovative company that focuses on providing high-quality home infusion services. Founded in 2010, the company has since grown into the largest privately held home infusion company in the country, serving over 40 states.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates ethical pharmacy practice and ensures compliance with all company policies and procedures, state and federal pharmacy rules and regulations, professional practice standards, and accrediting entities.
• Affirms patient's suitability for home care and appropriateness of prescribed therapy.
• Ensures the patient database is complete and compiles the necessary information needed to design a patient-specific pharmacy plan of care with goals for therapy.
• Recommends and writes patient-appropriate orders.
• Affirms documents that require the prescriber's or pharmacist's signature for billing are generated and obtained.
• Affirms assesses laboratory results and performs pharmacokinetic dosing. Makes appropriate dosing recommendations and documents.
• Initiates, creates and updates patient medication profiles.
• Performs accurate prescription order entry to ensure medications are properly concentrated, without incompatibilities, stable and properly stored.
• Dispenses medications and related supplies to cost-effectively meet patient needs and assures authorization for services is obtained prior to dispensing.
• Accurately dispenses, programs, if applicable, and troubleshoots medication administration pumps.
• Accurately submits electronic claims for medications, as applicable.
• Documents all communication with physicians, nurses, dietitians, patients and caregivers in the patient's medical record.
• Documents initial patient or caregiver discussion, education and counseling regarding prescribed therapy, medication use and information, infusion method, and after hours contact information.
• Thoroughly and objectively documents the patient's course of therapy, compliance with therapy, laboratory results, and progress towards goals of therapy with therapy-appropriate frequency.
• Ensures all compounding, clean room and anteroom activities adhere to all state and federal regulations, USP standards and company policies and procedures by all pharmacy staff.
• Ensures required documentation is completed on QA/QC records and compounding documents.
• Completes company-required orientation and annual competencies and in-services.
• Provides concise, applicable and timely responses to requests for drug information.
• Accurately maintains calendar for laboratory tests, compounding, delivery, and documentation updates.
• Obtains and processes patient clinical information to allow for processing refills and supplies at least 24 hours in advance of patient's need.
• Plans work to ensure cost-effective delivery methods are utilized.
• Oversees the work of pharmacy support personnel and ensures their job duties are completed in a timely manner.
• Delegates non-clinical tasks to assigned support personnel.
• Prepares for and actively participates in patient care conferences including Nutrition Support Rounds.
• Participates in the on-call process and documents on call activities in the patient medical record, if appropriate, and communicates with relevant personnel.
• Assists in the training and supervision of pharmacy support personnel, pharmacy interns and pharmacy-profession students.
• Makes up for the absence of the Pharmacist in Charge or general branch manager during temporary absences and/or vacancies as appropriate.
• Performs other related duties as directed by supervisor.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy (Doctor of Pharmacy or a Master’s of Science degree in Pharmacy desirable) from an accredited college of pharmacy.
• Currently licensed as a registered pharmacist in state of employment.
• A minimum of two years recent experience in an acute-care setting or one year recent experience in home infusion therapy.
• Experience and strong knowledge base in intravenous admixture services and intravenous therapy.
• Ability to evaluate and monitor drug therapy relative to the total needs/problems of the home care patient in collaboration with physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals.
• Ability to provide safe and effective drug therapy.
• Ability to problem solve and supervise technical and other support staff.
• Flexibility with work schedule.
• Good organizational and time-management skills.

Skills

• Excellent verbal and good written communication skills.
• Moderate computer skills including MS Office, Windows Outlook, and Internet.
• Moderate level of interpersonal skills to interact effectively and professionally with both internal and external customers.
• Moderate mathematical skills to perform pharmaceutical calculations.
• General knowledge of modern office procedures, filing, telephone techniques and office equipment.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• Benefits start on your 1st day of employment.
• 401k w 4% match – no waiting or vesting period.
• Paid holidays.
• Company paid life insurance, short term disability.
• Employee Assistance programs to help with mental health / wellness.
• Learning & Development Programs.
• Generous employee referral program.

To learn more about KabaFusion, please visit our careers page: https://www.kabafusion.com/careers/