Ambulatory Clinical Pharmacist - Cardiology
About The Position
The Ambulatory Care Clinical Pharmacist provides specialized expertise to healthcare teams and patients to support optimal, cost-effective drug therapy. The role develops individualized pharmacotherapeutic goals, selects drug regimens, and creates monitoring plans. The pharmacist leads efforts to prevent and report medication errors and adverse drug reactions and continuously improves processes and practices to enhance medication safety and efficacy. This position does not directly manage other caregivers. The pharmacist collaborates with providers under Collaborative Drug Therapy Management agreements, manages medications upon referral, conducts comprehensive medication and adherence management, and coordinates access to needed therapies. The role supports multidisciplinary care through education, monitoring, prescription coordination, and communication with patients, families, providers, and pharmacy staff. It also includes training and mentoring, supervision of assigned pharmacy technicians, regulatory compliance, and operation of pharmacy systems and equipment.
Requirements
- Graduate of an ACPE-accredited College of Pharmacy.
- Current license or eligibility to be licensed as a Pharmacist by the Oregon Board of Pharmacy.
- ASHP Specialty Pharmacy Fundamentals Certification or other relevant certification for the applicable disease state within 6 months of hire.
- Completion of an ASHP-accredited PGY-1 residency training program, or 5 years of relevant clinical pharmacy experience.
- Must be able to wear appropriate personal protective equipment required to perform the job safely.
Nice To Haves
- Doctor of Pharmacy or other advanced degree.
- Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties Certification in the area of specialty practice.
- Specialty, complex care, or ambulatory pharmacy experience.
- Completion of a PGY-2 residency.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with healthcare providers to create, maintain, and use evidence-based Collaborative Drug Therapy Management agreements.
- Prescribe and manage specialty and other medications upon referral from St. Charles Licensed Independent Providers as defined in CDTM agreements.
- Perform comprehensive medication and adherence management; document in patient medical records and communicate with referring providers and multidisciplinary teams.
- Coordinate removal of barriers to medication therapy, including prior authorizations, benefits investigations, prescription renewals, and financial assistance.
- Assist the multidisciplinary team with prescription coordination, disease-state education, lab ordering, and monitoring patient response and adherence.
- Collaborate with pharmacy caregivers to ensure accurate and timely medication dispensing, refills, and deliveries.
- Monitor specialty and ancillary medications for appropriateness, interactions, toxicities, and cost effectiveness according to guidelines and patient-specific criteria.
- Educate patients and families about treatment goals, administration schedules, and side effects.
- Train, educate, and mentor pharmacists and technicians, and precept pharmacy students and residents.
- Maintain liaison relationships with medical and nursing staff and provide timely pharmaceutical and regulatory information.
- Supervise assigned pharmacy technicians and ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations and maintenance of required records.
- Extract pertinent information from patients and other sources for medical management plans.
- Operate pharmacy computer systems and other equipment.
- Assist with development of collaborative practice agreements, policies, and procedures.
- Model communication of the health system mission, vision, values, and strategic plan; support organizational values and Lean continuous improvement.
- Help maintain a safe environment and conduct work professionally, confidentially, ethically, and in compliance with applicable requirements.
- Provide timely, efficient, accurate customer service and patient care.
- Perform additional duties of similar complexity as required or assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
