Pharmacist

Synchrony Pharmacy Louisville; Sellersburg (IN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Synchrony Pharmacy Louisville is seeking a licensed pharmacist to support medication preparation, dispensing, and patient counseling in a clinical setting.

Responsibilities include reviewing orders, ensuring regulatory compliance, managing records and inventory, and mentoring staff. A PharmD or ACPE-accredited BS is required with active NAPLEX/MPJE licenses and at least five years of experience.

Qualifications

• ACPE-accredited BS in Pharmacy or PharmD required.
• NAPLEX and MPJE licensure; state license where required.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in a pharmacy environment preferred.

Responsibilities

• Review and interpret physician orders to prepare medications.
• Dispense medications following policy and legal requirements.
• Assess identity, strength and purity of medications; monitor drug therapies.
• Maintain pharmacy records, inventories, and controlled substance logs.
• Provide pharmacological information and counsel health care professionals and patients.

Skills

Microsoft Office

Pharmacy software

Clinical pharmacy knowledge

Education

BS in Pharmacy (ACPE-accredited)

PharmD (ACPE-accredited)

Tools

Pharmacy software systems

Job description

Overview:

Careers close to home and your heartSince our founding in 1997, we’ve been making long-term care better for our residents and more rewarding for our team members. We’re a Fortune Best Places to Work in Aging Services, a certified Great Place to Work, and one of Glassdoor’s Top 100 Best Companies to Work. If you’re looking for a place that embraces you for who you are, helps you achieve your full potential, and makes working hard feel less like hard work, then look no further than Trilogy.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.Assess the identity, strength or purity of medications.Assists in the maintenance of records, such as pharmacy files, patient profiles, charge system files and inventories, narcotics, or controlled drugs.Controls medications by monitoring drug therapies; advising interventions.Completes pharmacy operational requirements by organizing and directing technicians’ work flow; verifying their preparation and labeling of pharmaceuticals; verifying order entries.Manages the workflow processes which may include pharmacist verification, labeling/packaging, quality assurance with barcode verification and drug images and delivery with barcode tote checking.Utilizes computer systems to screen for drug interactions, therapeutic duplication, drug-disease contradictions, drug allergies, geriatric precautions, drug-food precautions and adult min-max dose checking.Provides pharmacological information by answering questions and requests of health care professionals; counseling patents on drug therapies.Develops staff pharmacological knowledge by participating in clinical programs; training pharmacy staff, interns, residents and health care professionals.Complies with state and federal drug laws as regulated by the State Board of Pharmacy, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Food and Drug Administration by monitoring unit inspections, maintaining records for controlled substances; removing outdated and damaged drugs from the pharmacy inventory, follows disposal of drugs per drug disposal guidelines.Protects patients and technicians by adhering to infection-control protocols.Minimal travel including overnight stay as necessaryMeets Expectations of Excellence for position.Supports campuses, departmental goals and the overall objectives of the Company.Complies with all laws, regulations and standards of ethical conduct.Performs all job duties with a friendly positive and team-oriented approach.Maintains required licenses or certifications in good standing with the State.Complies with all Company policies, procedures, rules and standards.

Qualifications:

Bachelors of Science (B. S.) or Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE).

Licenses/CertificationsNorth American Pharmacist Licensure Exam (NAPLEX)Multistate Pharmacy Jurisprudence Exam (MPJE)State-specific license where required

Experience :Five (5) years’ experience in a pharmacy environment preferred.

Healthcare, senior living industry or long-term care environment preferred.Exemplary computer skills that include knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite of products.*CB103