Ambulatory Care Pharmacist — Lead Medication Therapy & Safety

St. Charles Health System Inc.; Saint Charles (MO); On-site; USD 148,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation Bonus

Job summary

The Ambulatory Care Clinical Pharmacist at St. Charles Health System provides expertise within a specialized healthcare team to optimize cost-effective drug therapy and patient outcomes. The role includes developing pharmacotherapeutic goals, selecting regimens, monitoring plans, and leading efforts to prevent medication errors.

This position may work at multiple worksites per leadership needs. Requires ACPE-accredited pharmacy degree, licensure in Oregon, and ASHP PGY-1 or equivalent

Qualifications

• Graduate of an ACPE-accredited College of Pharmacy.
• Current license or eligibility to be licensed as Pharmacist.
• ASHP PGY-1 residency or 5 years relevant clinical pharmacy experience.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with health care providers to create, maintain, and utilize evidence based CDTM agreements to improve medication drug selection, monitoring, and patient adherence.
• Prescribes and manages specialty and other medications upon referral from St. Charles Licensed Independent Providers (LIP) as defined in CDTM agreements to assure optimal cost-effective drug therapy.
• Performs comprehensive medication and adherence management.
• Documents in the patient medical record and communicates with their referring LIP and the multidisciplinary team.
• Coordinates the removal of barriers to needed medication therapy; including prior authorizations, benefits investigation, prescription renewal, and financial assistance.
• Assists the multidisciplinary health care team with coordination of prescriptions, disease state education, lab ordering, and monitoring of patient response and adherence.
• Collaborates with pharmacy caregivers to ensure accurate and timely medication dispensing, refills, and deliveries.
• Monitors patient treatment (specialty and ancillary) medications for appropriateness, drug interactions, toxicities, and cost effectiveness based on current clinical and institutional guidelines as well as patient-specific criteria.
• Educates patients and their families to ensure their understanding of the goals, administration schedules and side effects of treatment.
• Participates in the training, education and mentoring of other pharmacists and technicians and precepting of pharmacy students and residents.
• Maintains liaison relationships with medical and nursing staff; provides timely information pertaining to pharmaceuticals, state and federal regulations regarding drug controls, and Joint Commission Standards.

Skills

CDTM Collaboration

Medication Therapy Management

Patient Counseling

Interdisciplinary Teamwork

Education

ACPE-accredited Pharmacy College

Doctor of Pharmacy

Tools

Pharmacy Software Systems

Job description

The Ambulatory Care Clinical Pharmacist at St. Charles Health System provides expertise within a specialized healthcare team to optimize cost-effective drug therapy and patient outcomes. The role includes developing pharmacotherapeutic goals, selecting regimens, monitoring plans, and leading efforts to prevent medication errors.

This position may work at multiple worksites per leadership needs. Requires ACPE-accredited pharmacy degree, licensure in Oregon, and ASHP PGY-1 or equivalent