Pharmacist - Float

About the role

Join our team as a Float Pharmacist supporting pharmacies at various clinics. As a pharmacist at Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic, you are integrated into a team-based healthcare organization working to the top of your licensure. Pharmacists are involved in all aspects of patient care with access to patient charts, labs, medications, and diagnoses. With the ability to prescribe or modify care plans via collaborative agreements, the goal is to ensure patients receive the best and most complete, cost-effective medications and care possible.

Aside from traditional outpatient dispensing, pharmacists provide clinical support to medical providers via chronic refill authorization, therapeutic interchanges, and prior authorization completions. There is also an opportunity for clinical visits managing diabetes, hypertension, anticoagulants, and asthma, amongst other chronic conditions, with direct face-to-face or telehealth patient care.

This is a float position requiring regular travel to several pharmacy locations spanning from Salem, Woodburn, and Portland, Oregon, with potential occasional coverage at the Astoria location.

Responsibilities

• Provide patient care services including Drug Utilization Review, Patient Counseling, and Medication Therapy Management
• Perform Collaborative Drug Therapy Management or other post-diagnostic disease state management, pursuant to a valid agreement
• Prescribe drug or device, as authorized by statute, according to Drug Therapy Management Protocols
• Order, interpret, and monitor laboratory tests
• Receive or transfer prescriptions
• Provide direct oversight of pharmacy personnel, ensuring work is within the scope of practice and duties of their licensure
• Ensure the security of the pharmacy area, including safeguards against theft or diversion of prescription drugs
• Ensure all records and inventories are maintained in accordance with state and federal laws
• Ensure new prescriptions, refills, and drug orders are correctly dispensed according to the provider’s authorization and YVFWC policies and procedures
• Maintain active licensure and pharmacological knowledge through educational workshops, professional publications, networks, and professional societies

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Pharmacy
• Current Washington State Pharmacist License
• Passion for serving underserved communities
• Experience in community or ambulatory pharmacy practice (new graduates may list rotations in these areas)
• PGY-1 & PGY-2 residencies are equivalent to work experience

Preferred qualifications: Pharm D Degree and Bilingual (English/Spanish) speaking skills.

This position requires drug testing for controlled substances before employment and throughout employment.

Benefits

• $146,000 - $168,000 yearly compensation (DOE) with potential increases for highly experienced candidates, plus float differential
• Mileage reimbursement included in compensation
• No out-of-pocket cost for medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Generous paid time off
• 8 paid holidays per year
• $3,100 annual CME allowance with 5 days (40 hours) of CME time
• Profit-sharing plan
• 401a and 403b retirement plans
• Automatic life insurance policy
• Employee assistance programs
• Eligibility for federal and state student loan repayment programs

Operating hours align with work-life balance.