Specialty Pharmacist

Responsibilities

• Provides high-quality pharmaceutical care to patients of the specialty pharmacy.
• Reviews prescriptions for accuracy and takes steps for clarification or correction if necessary.
• Makes sure daily workflow is monitored and collaborates with the specialty pharmacy team to meet production goals.
• Ensures proper medication, supplies, delivery, and follow-up.
• Communicates with patients and physicians regarding drug interactions, medication identification, sensitivities, allergies, and safety issues.
• Maintains oversight of specialty department staff by following standard operating procedures for receiving, filling, dispensing, logging, and maintaining loss prevention controls.
• Supervises prescription processing to ensure medications and supplies are dispensed according to regulatory requirements and shipped to the appropriate address.
• Utilizes most current Specialty Plan Prior Authorization (PA) criteria to facilitate new PA requests and PA renewals as necessary.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Ability to communicate to physician or office personnel regarding prescription issues or benefit related issues in a professional manner.
• Displays superior customer service skills and acts as a role model when communicating with partners, clients, patients or physician’s office personnel on the phone and must be able to retain composure under pressure to achieve positive outcomes.
• Understanding of evidenced based medicine, advanced pharmacy practice, and patient based care.
• Good working knowledge of pharmacy laws and Rx Plus Pharmacy processes.
• Good decision-making skills, including expert problem-solving skills, problem analysis, and discernment under pressure.
• Ability to develop and leverage relationships within and across work groups to achieve results.
• Ability to supervise pharmacy technician personnel.
• Effectively manages one's time and resources to ensure that work is completed efficiently.
• Flexibility and willingness to adapt to change as necessary.
• Intermediate to advanced skill set in MS Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
• Bilingual (preferred).

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy, Doctor of Pharmacy, or other advanced pharmacy degree (required).
• 1+ advanced pharmacy residency (PGY-2) or fellowship experience (preferred).
• 3+ years professional experience in pharmacy setting or a pharmacy practice residency (PGY-1) (required).
• Licensed Pharmacist (RPH) (required).

Benefits

Includes medical, dental, vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, paid time off, 403-B retirement plan, whole person well-being resources, mental health resources and support, pet benefits, career development, and more.

Pay

$50.49 - $93.91 per hour

Schedule

Full time, Day shift

Contact Information

Address: 5050 WESLEY RD, APOPKA, FL 32712