PRN Pharmacist

World Courier; Darby (Delaware County); In loco; USD 69.000 - 96.000; Part-time

Descrizione del lavoro

Cencora is seeking a PRN Pharmacist for an onsite role in Darby, PA. The position involves interpreting prescriptions, dispensing medications, and supervising pharmacy technicians to ensure compliant and high-quality care. Responsibilities include patient counseling, drug interaction checks, medication reconciliation, and contributing to ambulatory pharmacy goals.

A PharmD or B.S. in Pharmacy with an active license is required; retail/ambulatory experience preferred.

Competenze

• Pharmacy degree and valid license to practice as a pharmacist.
• Retail/ambulatory pharmacy experience preferred.
• Strong communication and customer-service orientation.

Mansioni

• Evaluate, prepare, and dispense medications following professional standards and regulatory requirements.
• Perform medication reconciliation to support continuity of care.
• Provide patient counseling on medications and drug interactions.
• Review and discuss therapy with patients, ensuring understanding and adherence.
• Engage with patients to address questions regarding medications or supplies prescribed.
• Assess patient plans for therapeutic appropriateness and safety.
• Assist in achieving ambulatory pharmacy business goals and participate in outreach events.
• Support fiscal management to optimize pharmacy operations and control costs.
• Oversee pharmacy technicians, including hiring, training, and performance management.
• Monitor staff performance to maintain compliance with regulations and policies.
• Maintain procedures for quality assurance, security of controlled substances, and record-keeping.
• Handle adjudicated prescription claims and address reimbursement issues as needed.
• Establish pricing structures and tiered pricing as required.
• Recommend procedural improvements to enhance patient care and operations.
• Verify prescriptions and provide guidance to technicians.
• Respond to patient inquiries and resolve concerns promptly.
• Provide pharmacology consultations to organizational staff as needed.
• Assist with daily reporting and scheduling for pharmacy staff.
• Maintain patient profiles for insurance verification and compliance.
• Participate in departmental meetings and in-service training.
• Collaborate with colleagues to ensure service excellence and clinical care.
• Undertake related duties as assigned.

Conoscenze

Communication skills

Time management

Leadership

Interpersonal skills

Problem solving

Pharmaceutical knowledge

Organizational skills

Analytical skills

MS Office

Formazione

Bachelors of Science in Pharmacy

PharmD degree

Descrizione del lavoro

## PRN PharmacistApply: Darby, PA: Part time: Posted Today: R2615101Our team members are at the heart of everything we do. At Cencora, we are united in our responsibility to create healthier futures, and every person here is essential to us being able to deliver on that purpose. If you want to make a difference at the center of health, come join our innovative company and help us improve the lives of people and animals everywhere. Apply today!# **Job Details**The PRN Pharmacist interprets physicians' prescriptions and compounds and dispenses medications within regulatory guidelines. Supervises the clinical activities of the pharmacy technicians. Consults and counsels patients regarding the appropriate use of medications and potential drug interactions; handles complex problem resolution. This position is categorized as compliance critical and, as such, requires and is assigned specific responsibility for ensuring continual and proper compliance with all division, corporate and regulatory requirements.**Location:** Onsite in Darby, PA## **Responsibilities:**1. Responsible for the evaluating preparing and dispensing of medications; verifies prescribed medications according to professional standards, facility procedures, and state and federal legal requirements. 2. When possible, performs medication reconciliation processes to extend a seamless continuum of care for patients upon discharge. 3. Ensures and behaves with a focus on excellent customer service and clinical care. 4. Consults with patients regarding individual medications or supplies prescribed, including dosage, frequency, specialized requirements and possible drug interactions. 5. Interacts closely with individual patients in order to answer all questions and/or concerns regarding their medication therapy. 6. Reviews and evaluates patient's plan of care for therapeutic appropriateness. 7. Participates in achieving business goals and metrics for the ambulatory pharmacy, including assisting in marketing events and promotions. 8. Assists in the fiscal management of the ambulatory pharmacy to optimize profits and control expenses for the ambulatory pharmacy consistently consulting with the other relevant managers and directors. 9. Assists with managing all functions for the ambulatory pharmacy technicians such as hiring, training, terminating, and performance management. 10. Monitors the overall performance of all ambulatory pharmacy staff members to ensure compliance with regulatory and organizational policies, practices and approved pharmaceutical dispensing processes. 11. Assists in maintaining and executing all established procedures concerning quality improvement, quality assurance, security of controlled substances, and record keeping. 12. Submits, reviews, and handles all adjudicated prescription claims to ensure appropriateness of reimbursement, co-pay and related financials and, if needed, follows up all such claims deemed inappropriate. 13. Establishes, supervises and maintains all pricing tables, special tier pricing and related pricing structures as deemed necessary for the operation. 14. Makes recommendations to the managers regarding any changes to improve operating procedures, or to improve and facilitate patient care. 15. Performs prescription verification of all prescriptions and provides technical guidance to pharmacy technicians. 16. Promptly and appropriately responds to patient inquiries, requests and issues when situations are escalated to a higher level of authority. Follows through on closing any outstanding patient concerns to provide a superior level of customer care. 17. Provides consultation on pharmacy and therapeutic matters to various levels of organizational personnel. 18. Assists and reviews daily reporting and scheduling of hours worked for the pharmacy technicians to include sick time, vacation time, personal and holiday time and adjusts scheduling as appropriate to assure optimal patient care is maintained. 19. Supervises activities relative to patient profiles and contacts, ensuring that they are updated as needed for insurance verification and regulatory compliance. 20. Participates in departmental meetings and in-service training for pharmacy technicians. 21. Works collaboratively with organizational personnel on quality, satisfaction, service excellence, clinical care, etc. as needed. 22. Performs related duties as assigned.**Education:**Normally requires Bachelors of Science Degree or Pharm D degree from an accredited School of Pharmacy a Degree in Pharmacy from an accredited College of Pharmacy; current, unrestricted pharmacist license through the appropriate state board of pharmacy. Also requires broad training and/or experience in the fields of business administration, sales, marketing, information technology and retail/ambulatory pharmacy. Normally requires zero (1) to three (3) years of directly related and progressively responsible retail/ambulatory care pharmacy experience.**Skills and Knowledge:**1. Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing 2. Ability to work quickly and accurately under time and volume constraints 3. Strong leadership skills 4. Strong interpersonal skills 5. Ability to resolve patient issues quickly and creatively in order to improve customer satisfaction 6. Familiarity with pharmaceutical products, services and drug interactions 7. Strong organizational skills; attention to detail 8. Good analytical skills 9. Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook