Clinical Pharmacist - Long-Term Care

Synchrony Pharmacy Louisville; Asa (KY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Trilogy is seeking a licensed pharmacist to join our long-term care team. You will prepare, dispense and review medications, maintain patient profiles and inventory, and ensure compliance with regulatory standards.

Responsibilities include counseling healthcare professionals and patients, training staff, and participating in clinical programs while upholding infection-control protocols. Occasional travel may be required.

Qualifications

• B.S. in Pharmacy or Pharm.D. degree accredited by ACPE.
• Current North American Pharmacist Licensure Exam (NAPLEX) and MPJE required where applicable.

Responsibilities

• Prepares and assists the Pharmacy team in the preparation of medications by reviewing and interpreting physician orders; weighing, measuring and mixing ingredients; detects therapeutic incompatibilities.
• Dispenses medication by planning, implementing or maintaining procedures for mixing, packaging, or labeling pharmaceuticals, according to policy and legal requirements to ensure quality, security and proper disposal.
• Assesses the identity, strength or purity of medications.
• Maintains records such as pharmacy files, patient profiles, charge system files and inventories, narcotics, or controlled drugs.
• Monitors drug therapies; advises interventions to optimize patient care.
• Directs technicians’ workflow; verifies preparation and labeling of pharmaceuticals; verifies order entries.
• Manages workflow including pharmacist verification, labeling/packaging, quality assurance with barcode verification and drug images and delivery with barcode tote checking.
• Uses computer systems to screen for drug interactions, therapeutic duplication, drug-disease contradictions, drug allergies, geriatric precautions, drug-food precautions and dose checks.
• Provides pharmacological information by answering questions of health care professionals; counsels patients on drug therapies.
• Develops staff pharmacological knowledge through training and clinical programs.

Skills

Microsoft Office

Education

B.S. in Pharmacy

Pharm.D.

Job description

Trilogy is seeking a licensed pharmacist to join our long-term care team. You will prepare, dispense and review medications, maintain patient profiles and inventory, and ensure compliance with regulatory standards.

Responsibilities include counseling healthcare professionals and patients, training staff, and participating in clinical programs while upholding infection-control protocols. Occasional travel may be required.