Retail Staff Pharmacist

Beth Israel Lahey Health; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 124,000 - 167,000; Full time

Job summary

Beth Israel Lahey Health is seeking a Retail Staff Pharmacist responsible for quality assurance of pharmacy services, ensuring accurate dispensing and patient safety within an interdisciplinary team.

The role includes medication reviews, clinical interventions per protocol, patient counseling, provider communications, and supervising pharmacy technicians, with focus on compliance, inventory management, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• PharmD degree preferred; MA Pharmacist license required.
• 0–1 year related work experience required.
• Knowledge of drug information, disease state management, and insurance adjudication.
• Advanced skills with Microsoft applications (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access) and web-based tools.

Responsibilities

• Performs quality assurance of prescriptions and medications to dispense.
• Conducts clinical assessments and reassessments; documents clinical interventions per protocol.
• Dispenses prescribed medications; reviews prescriptions for accuracy; answers questions on drug interactions, side effects, dosage and storage.
• Maintains procedures for quality assurance, security of controlled substances, and disposal of hazardous waste drugs.
• Enters data to maintain pharmacy files, charge systems, and inventory; assists with documentation.
• Assays medications to determine identity, purity, and strength.
• Participates in Quality Management Committees for pharmacy operations and client satisfaction.
• Oversees pharmacy technicians and workflow; trains/mentors interns and medical staff.

Skills

Drug information knowledge

Disease state management

Insurance adjudication processes

Inventory processes

Microsoft Office suite

Education

Bachelor's degree

PharmD preferred

Massachusetts Pharmacist license

Job description

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

Job Summary

The Retail Staff Pharmacist is responsible for the quality assurance of the provided pharmacy services. Ensures the correct medications are dispensed to the correct patients in the efficient and safe manner as promised. Medication compliance monitoring, chronic disease state management, patient consultation, and provider communications are a part of daily tasks. This position is a part of the interdisciplinary team that includes clinical pharmacists, technician supervisors, mail, and delivery department managers.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities

• Performs quality assurance of prescriptions and medications to dispense.
• Performs clinical assessments and reassessments and performs and documents clinical interventions per protocol.
• Dispenses prescribed medications, drugs, and other pharmaceuticals for patient care: reviews prescriptions issued by physician, or other authorized prescriber to assure accuracy; directs pharmacy workers engaged in packaging, and labeling pharmaceuticals; answers questions and provides information to pharmacy customers on drug interactions, side effects, dosage and storage of pharmaceuticals.
• Maintains established procedures concerning quality assurance, security of controlled substances, and disposal of hazardous waste drugs.
• Enters data such as patient name, prescribed medication and cost, to maintain pharmacy files, charge system, and inventory.
• Assays medications to determine identity, purity, and strength.
• Participates as a member of various Quality Management Committees to provide quality management oversight to the pharmacy operations and client satisfaction.
• The Retail Staff Pharmacist oversees the pharmacy technicians and workflow; intervenes and follows protocol when necessary to correct information.
• Instructs interns and other medical personnel on matters pertaining to pharmacy.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Doctoral degree in Pharmacy (Pharm D) preferred.
• License Massachusetts Pharmacist required.
• 0-1 years related work experience required.
• Possesses knowledge in drug information, disease state management, and legal requirements of pharmacy practices.
• Understanding of insurance and adjudication processes.
• Working knowledge of inventory processes.
• Advanced skills with Microsoft applications which may include Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Access and other web-based applications.
• May produce complex documents, perform analysis and maintain databases.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in retail or academic outpatient pharmacy and experience in 340B pharmacy setting.
• Board of Pharmacy Specialty Certification.
• Pharmacy management experience.

Competencies

Decision Making

Ability to make decisions that are guided by precedents, policies and objectives. Regularly makes decisions and recommendations on issues affecting a department or functional area.

Problem Solving

Ability to address problems that are highly varied, complex and often non-recurring, requiring staff input, innovative, creative, and Lean diagnostic techniques to resolve issues.

Independence of Action

Ability to set goals and determines how to accomplish defined results with some guidelines. Manager/Director provides broad guidance and overall direction.

Written Communications

Ability to summarize and communicate in English moderately complex information in varied written formats to internal and external customers.

Oral Communications

Ability to comprehend and communicate complex verbal information in English to medical center staff, patients, families and external customers.

Knowledge

Ability to demonstrate in-depth knowledge of concepts, practices and policies with the ability to use them in complex varied situations.

Team Work

Ability to lead collaborative teams for larger projects or groups both internal and external to the Medical Center and across functional areas. Results have implications for the management and operations of multiple areas of the organization.

Customer Service

Ability to provide a high level of customer service and staff training to meet customer service standards and expectations for the assigned unit(s). Resolves service issues in the assigned unit(s) in a timely and respectful manner.

Age-based Competencies

• Neonatal:Birth to 6 months
• Youth: 6 months to 16 years
• Young adult: 16-30 years
• Middle Age: 30 - 60 years
• Elderly: 60 -

Physical Nature of the Job

Light work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force frequently to move objects. Some elements of the job are sedentary, but the employee will be required to stand for periods of time or move through out the hospital campus

Pay Range

$123,760.00 USD - $166,566.40 USD The pay range listed for this position is the annual base salary range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geography of work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law.

Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.

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