Clinic Specialty Pharmacist - Endocrinology

Baptist Health (Kentucky); Louisville (KY); Sur place; USD 110 000 - 140 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Baptist Health is seeking a Clinic Specialty Pharmacist to join our Endocrinology team in Louisville, KY. This role serves as the primary contact for specialty medication needs and enrolls patients into medication management programs within the clinic setting.

You will provide initial clinical counseling, conduct regular reassessments, and coordinate therapy adjustments with interdisciplinary teams to optimize outcomes. Equal employment opportunity employer.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Pharmacy or Doctorate of Pharmacy required.
• Kentucky Board of Pharmacy license required.
• 1–3 years related work experience or ASHP accredited residency preferred.
• Ambulatory clinical pharmacy practice experience preferred.
• Specialty disease state experience preferred.

Responsabilités

• Serve as primary contact with patients for specialty medication needs.
• Enroll specialty patients into medication management programs.
• Provide initial clinical medication counseling and regular reassessments (in person, telephonic, or video).
• Perform medication therapy management and coordinate therapy adjustments.
• Refer patients to financial counseling for copay assistance.
• Communicate with physicians and clinicians to ensure exemplary service.
• Maintain onsite clinic services, policies, workflows, and practice expectations.
• Participate in ongoing trainings (disease state overviews, guidelines, REMS, etc.).

Connaissances

Clinical consultation

Medication education

Chronic disease management

Medication reconciliation

Adherence counseling

Team leadership

Flexibility

Formation

Bachelor's Degree in Pharmacy

Doctorate of Pharmacy

Description du poste

Summary

The Specialty Pharmacist acts as an extension of ambulatory clinic teams to support patient access to high touch, complex medication therapies. This position is based in a specialty medical clinic setting. The Specialty Pharmacist functions in a multi-skilled environment, which requires the application of teamwork, leadership, and flexibility. This position is responsible for general supervision of Specialty Pharmacy Care Coordinators and for the operation and services provided in the specialty pharmacy clinic. Provides clinical consultation, medication education, chronic disease state management, medication reconciliation, and adherence counseling for specialty patients. Plays an integral role with interdisciplinary teams including pharmacists, nurses, medical assistants, and providers to facilitate patient care. Furthers the development, implementation, and maintenance of programs that promote optimal patient outcomes.

Job Description

Baptist Health is looking for a Clinic Specialty Pharmacist to join our team at Baptist Health Medical Group Endocrinology, 2800 Breckenridge Lane, Louisville, KY! Serves as a primary point of contact with patients related to specialty medication needs and demonstrates empathy and compassion to patients and caregivers. Enrolls specialty pharmacy patients into medication management programs by assisting with recruitment of patients in clinic. Provides initial clinical medication counseling and regular patient reassessments via in person, telephonic, or video encounters to ensure appropriateness of specialty therapy and ongoing therapy management. Performs medication therapy management, which may include coordinating medication adjustments to optimize patient medication regimens and improve clinical outcomes. Refers appropriate patients to financial counseling for copay assistance through manufacturer or charity programs. Communicates with patients and families about the benefits of filling their prescriptions with Baptist Health. Communicates with physicians and other clinicians as necessary to facilitate exemplary service for new and existing Baptist Health specialty pharmacy patients. Provides limited/indirect supervision for Specialty Pharmacy Care Coordinators and timely response to clinical escalations. Maintain pharmacy onsite clinic services, operational policies and procedures, clinical pharmacy workflows and practice expectations. Participates in ongoing trainings related to role, including but not limited to disease state overviews, clinical guidelines, pharmacology, REMS programs, etc.

Minimum Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Pharmacy or Doctorate of Pharmacy required. Kentucky Board of Pharmacy license is required. 1-3 years related work experience or completion of ASHP accredited pharmacy residency program preferred. Experience in ambulatory clinical pharmacy practice preferred. Specialty disease state experience preferred.

If you would like to be part of a growing family focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork and innovation.

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves.

The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.

Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana.

Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama.

Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.

Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet or Pathway to Excellence designation for nursing excellence.

Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians.

Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

EEO Statement

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law.

Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team.

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