Clinical Consult Pharmacist -Specialty Pharmacy

Walgreens; Deerfield (IL); Remote; USD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated pharmacist to implement healthcare strategies and drive patient health outcomes. This role involves executing patient intervention pharmacy programs, ensuring compliance with clinical pharmacy services, and fostering strong relationships with medical communities. As a subject matter expert, you'll provide education and support to pharmacists and field leaders, while also enhancing patient experiences through various healthcare services. If you're passionate about improving patient health and thrive in a collaborative environment, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy or PharmD required.
• At least one year of retail pharmacy experience needed.

Responsibilities

• Implement patient care programs and ensure compliance with pharmacy services.
• Drive financial performance and enhance patient experience through healthcare services.

Skills

Patient Consultation

Medication Management

Team Motivation

Time Management

Customer Service

Education

Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy

PharmD

Job description

Job Summary:

This position does not require travel.
Although this position is mostly remote, the person must reside in TX, FL, MI or PA.

Responsible for the implementation of healthcare strategies and driving patient health outcomes. Executes patient intervention pharmacy programs and ensures compliance of clinical pharmacy services. Responsible for executing against identified partner established pharmacy programs. Drives Pharmacy financial performance by executing on pharmacy programs to maximize reimbursements while improving patient health outcomes. Responsible for prescription processing from a remote setting. Fosters strong relationships with medical communities in assigned area and acts as a representative and liaison of the company. Serves as a subject matter expert and resource to other pharmacists and field leaders. Maintains current knowledge of Pharmacy industry and maintains required licensure.

Job Responsibilities:

• Implements direct patient care programs, including but not limited to Medication Therapy Management programs, Immunization Services, and Payer and Pharma Adherence and Clinical Programs. Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects to ensure business needs are being met.
• Drives compliance and continuous quality improvement in the delivery of clinical pharmacy patient care and services by studying, evaluating, and re designing processes; monitoring and analyzing results; and implementing changes. Helps ensure area Pharmacies adhere to regulatory compliance, standard operating procedures and FDA regulations.
• Drives regional pharmacy financial performance by aligning business strategies with company financial goals. Implements and executes patient intervention pharmacy programs to maximize financial performance.
• Supports efforts on enhancing patient experience by increasing focus on healthcare services (e.g. patient consultation, medication management, drug therapy reviews, and retail, clinical, or wellness services such as immunizations, disease state management and Specialty programs).
• Provides expertise, resources, education and support to pharmacists and field leadership. Supports staff training experiences and development opportunities. Promotes teamwork and motivates Pharmacy staff by fostering a shared vision and supporting company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity.
• Conducts data and clinical reviews and taking necessary actions to ensure accuracy and appropriateness of medications.
• Reviews drug histories and patient profiles to ensure proper and safe drug therapy. Provides individualized patient/provider consultation.
• Through use of superior communication skills, wins the trust of patients by listening to their issues and providing a sounding board for the pharmacy concerns.
• Provides feedback as to the effectiveness of the Customer Retention Program including comments from patients as the value of individual consultations.
• Responsible for all questions, dialogues, and issues which relate directly to patient therapy.
• Provides clinical consultation and knowledge to patients, doctors, and insurance plans as needed.
• Performs other work consistent with the job responsibilities in this document as assigned by management.
• Follows guidelines and procedures for all job responsibilities in order to meet goals. Adheres to company policies and procedures including all HIPAA guidelines/regulations.
• Ensures compliance with federal, state, and local pharmacy laws.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy or PharmD and at least one (1) year of experience in a retail pharmacy environment.
• Current Pharmacist license as granted by the appropriate state licensing authority.
• Experience motivating team members to research and resolve issues.
• Experience working with confidential information.
• Willing to work non-standard hours, which may include evenings, holidays and/or weekends.
• Experience using time management skills such as prioritizing/organizing and tracking details and meeting deadlines of multiple projects with varying completion dates.
• Experience developing ways of accomplishing goals with little or no supervision, depending on oneself to complete objectives and determining when escalation of issues is necessary.
• Experience providing customer service to internal and external customers, including meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• Willing to travel up to/at least 10% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).

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