Ambulatory Clinical Pharmacist - Cardiology
About The Position
The Ambulatory Care Clinical Pharmacist provides specialized expertise to a healthcare team and patients to support optimal, cost-effective drug therapy. The pharmacist develops individualized pharmacotherapeutic goals, selects medication regimens, and creates monitoring plans. The role 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 works with providers and multidisciplinary teams to manage medication therapy under Collaborative Drug Therapy Management (CDTM) agreements, support patient adherence, coordinate access to medications, monitor treatment, and educate patients and families. The position also supports pharmacy operations, regulatory compliance, staff training, and continuous improvement. The role may include additional duties of similar complexity as required or assigned.
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 another relevant certification for the applicable disease state within six months of hire.
- Completion of an ASHP-accredited PGY-1 residency training program, or five years of relevant clinical pharmacy experience.
- Ability to wear appropriate personal protective equipment required to perform the job safely.
Nice To Haves
- Doctor of Pharmacy degree or another 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 CDTM agreements to improve medication selection, monitoring, and adherence.
- 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 prescriptions, 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 clinical and institutional guidelines and patient-specific criteria.
- Educate patients and families about treatment goals, administration schedules, and side effects.
- Participate in training, education, and mentoring of 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 engaged in pharmacy practice.
- Ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations and maintain required records.
- Extract pertinent information from patient and other sources for the patient's medical management plan.
- Operate pharmacy computer systems and other equipment.
- Assist with development of collaborative practice agreements, policies, and procedures.
- Model two-way communication of the health system's mission, vision, values, and strategic plan; support its vision, mission, and values.
- Support Lean continuous-improvement principles and champion change.
- Provide and maintain a safe environment for caregivers, patients, and guests.
- Conduct activities professionally and confidentially; comply with applicable laws, regulations, policies, and procedures, and support corporate integrity efforts.
- Deliver timely, efficient, accurate customer service and/or patient care.
