Clinical Pharmacist, Advanced Therapeutics: Cardiometabolic and MWL (Ambulatory), 40hr, Day, Remote

UMass Memorial Medical Group; Holden (MA); Remote; USD 99,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Signing bonus

Job summary

UMass Memorial Health is seeking an Advanced Therapeutics Clinical Pharmacist to provide patient-centered services, including medication reviews, adherence monitoring, and targeted disease management programs.

You will design and implement medication therapies, supervise technicians, and collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to improve patient outcomes while supporting regulatory and safety standards. Position offers day shift, 40 hours weekly.

Qualifications

• Pharmacist with advanced therapeutics responsibilities.
• Experience in patient medication reviews and adherence monitoring.
• Ability to design clinical pharmacotherapy programs.

Responsibilities

• Provide patient-centered clinical pharmacy services and reviews.
• Design and implement targeted medication and disease management programs.
• Supervise pharmacy technicians and ensure regulatory compliance.

Skills

Clinical pharmacist

Medication management

Collaborative practice

Job description

Exemption Status

Exempt

Hiring Range

$98,862.40 - $177,944.00 (based on a full time schedule of 40 hours per week). Please note that the final offer will vary based on scheduled hours. Compensation for part-time or reduced schedules will be prorated based on scheduled weekly hours, experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity considerations.

Schedule Details

Monday through Friday

Scheduled Hours:

830a-5p

Shift:

1 - Day Shift, 8 Hours (United States of America)

Hours:

40

Cost Center:

10020 - 3834 ATRX Pharmacy

This position may have a signing bonus available a member of the Recruitment Team will confirm eligibility during the interview process.

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At UMass Memorial Health, everyone is a caregiver - regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care, academic excellence and leading-edge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts, and a place where we can help you build the career you deserve. We are more than 20,000 employees, working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients, community and each other. And everyone, in their own unique way, plays an important part, every day.

Advanced Therapeutics Clinical Pharmacist

The Advanced Therapeutics clinical pharmacist provides patient centered clinical pharmacy services, including but not limited to comprehensive medication reviews, adherence monitoring interventions, and target medication reviews, that seek to optimize clinical, economic, and patient outcomes. The Advanced Therapeutics clinical pharmacist designs and implements targeted medication and disease management programs. Advanced Therapeutics clinical pharmacists are responsible for improving the patient's experience, safety, and achieving positive clinical and financial outcomes. This position is responsible to an immediate supervisor/manager.

Major Responsibilities

The following key performance areas (Clinical, Operations/Distribution, Financial, Safety and Regulatory, Research and Education) are performed by the clinical pharmacist:

• Clinical Performance: Provides medication management services in a collaborative manner that consist of the following: Review patient medication history, educate patients on drug therapy, establish desired outcomes, develop/modify therapeutic plans, determine alternatives for achieving outcomes, develop drug monitoring plans, monitor patient outcomes, document medication related issues in electronic health record, interpret laboratory data, review patient medication profiles, monitor pharmacokinetics of drug therapy, monitoring for potential adverse drug - drug, drug-lab, drug-disease state, and drug - food interactions. Maintains and updates a patient profile with demographics (e.g. height and weight), diagnosis, allergies, and current medications. Monitors drug therapy to evaluate appropriateness of use, dose, dosage form, regimen, route, therapeutic duplication, and drug interaction. Provides drug information to health care professionals and to patients. Documents clinical interventions and activities in a timely manner. Documentation may include progress notes in the EHR, annual comprehensive medication reviews with written summaries in the CMS's standardized format, and patient specific documents, i.e., medication-related actions plans and personal medication records. Counsels patients on discharge medications as appropriate. Performs clinical review and verification of medication orders. Performs medication order entry when needed. Discusses medication order clarifications with the prescriber, documents interventions, and communicates medication order changes as needed. Supervise work of pharmacy technicians involved with MTM and transitions of care. Maintains accurate and proper patient medication profiles, monitoring to ensure the proper choice of medication, dosage form, strength, length of therapy and interaction potential of the prescribed medication. May work under Collaborative Practice and protocols as authorized by providers.
• Operations/Distribution Performance: Ensures the timely and accurate dispensing of medications from the pharmacy area. Ensures proper technique and accurate preparation of all pharmaceutical products, including oral, non-sterile and sterile compounding, chemotherapeutic, hazardous, and investigational agents. Responsible for the accurate filling and dispensing of medications from the pharmacy area. Cross-covers in a variety of practice areas within the pharmacy as requested by supervisor. Ensures regulatory compliance of controlled substance distribution and monitoring. Supervise work of pharmacy technicians. Provide feedback to maintain and optimize pharmacy technology.
• Financial Performance: Promotes the use of formulary drugs by converting non-formulary orders to formula