Ambulatory Clinical Pharmacist - Cardiology

stcharles; Bend (OR); On-site; USD 96,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

ST. CHARLES HEALTH SYSTEM is seeking an Ambulatory Care Clinical Pharmacist in Bend, OR to provide specialized pharmacotherapy within a collaborative care team. You will develop pharmacotherapeutic goals, select regimens, and create monitoring plans tailored to individual patients.

You will lead efforts to prevent medication errors, improve safety and efficacy, and support ongoing professional development of pharmacists, technicians, and students within the ambulatory setting.

Qualifications

• Graduate of an ACPE-accredited College of Pharmacy.
• Doctor of Pharmacy or other advanced degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with health care providers to create and maintain CDTM agreements to improve medication selection, monitoring, and adherence.
• Prescribes and manages specialty and other medications upon referral to ensure cost-effective therapy.
• Performs comprehensive medication and adherence management and documents in the patient record.
• Coordinates removal of barriers to needed therapy including prior authorizations and financial assistance.
• Educates patients and families on goals, schedules and potential side effects of treatment.
• Supervises pharmacy technicians and mentors students and residents as needed.
• Provides liaison with medical and nursing staff and ensures compliance with regulations and standards.

Skills

CDTM management

Pharmacotherapy

Patient education

Education

ACPE-accredited College of Pharmacy

Doctor of Pharmacy ( PharmD )

Job description

Full-Time, Days

Pay range: $69.98 - $90.99

ST. CHARLES HEALTH SYSTEM

JOB DESCRIPTION

TITLE: Ambulatory Care Clinical Pharmacist

REPORTS TO POSITION: Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Manager

DEPARTMENT: Ambulatory Pharmacotherapy

DATE LAST REVIEWED: April 2024

OUR VISION

Creating America's healthiest community, together

OUR MISSION

In the spirit of love and compassion, better health, better care, better value

OUR VALUES

Accountability, Caring and Teamwork

DEPARTMENT SUMMARY

The St. Charles Health System Pharmacy provides a broad range of hospital and outpatient pharmaceutical care services to deliver high quality, effective, safe, reliable, and affordable medication therapy for our patients.

POSITION OVERVIEW

The Ambulatory Care Clinical Pharmacist provides expertise in a specialized healthcare team and for patients to assure optimal cost-effective drug therapy. This includes developing specific pharmacotherapeutic goals, selecting drug regimens and developing a monitoring plan to meet the individualized drug therapy needs of the patient. The Pharmacist is responsible for leading efforts in the prevention and reporting of medication errors and adverse drug reactions and works to continuously improve process and practice to enhance safety and efficacy of medication therapy.

This position does not directly manage other caregivers.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES

• Collaborates with health care providers to create, maintain, and utilize evidence based Collaborative Drug Therapy Management (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.
• Provides supervision of assigned pharmacy technicians engaged in pharmacy practice. Ensures compliance with federal, state, and local laws and regulations and the maintenance of required records.
• Extracts pertinent information from patient/other sources for the patient's medical management plan.
• Operates pharmacy computer system(s) and other equipment.
• Assists with development of collaborative practice agreements, policies, and procedures.
• Role models two-way communication of the St. Charles Health System mission, vision, values, and strategic plan for the department.
• Supports the vision, mission, and values of the organization in all respects.
• Supports Lean principles of continuous improvement with energy and enthusiasm, functioning as a champion of change.
• Provides and maintains a safe environment for caregivers, patients, and guests.
• Conducts all activities with the highest standards of professionalism and confidentiality. Complies with all applicable laws, regulations, policies and procedures, supporting the organization's corporate integrity efforts by acting in an ethical and appropriate manner, reporting known or suspected violation of applicable rules, and cooperating fully with all organizational investigations and proceedings.
• Delivers customer service and/or patient care in a manner that promotes goodwill, is timely, efficient, and accurate.
• May perform additional duties of similar complexity within the organization, as required or assigned.

EDUCATION

Required: Graduate of an ACPE accredited College of Pharmacy.

Preferred: Doctor of Pharmacy or other advanced degree.

LICENSURE/CERTIFICATION/REGISTRATION

Required : Current license or eligibility to be licensed as Pharmacist by Oregon Board of Pharmacy. ASHP Specialty Pharmacy Fundamentals Certification or other relevant certifi