Central Fulfillment Pharmacist I

BHS•La Grange, KY

14d

About The Position

The Pharmacist, Central Fulfillment Specialist is responsible and accountable for the provision of safe, effective, and prompt medication delivery and distribution. This role will assist in maintaining the pharmacy centralized services in accordance with departmental standards, internal and external reporting requirements, accreditation standards, and pharmacy laws and regulations. The Pharmacist, Central Fulfillment Specialist organizes, supervises, directs, and verifies functions performed by technicians and interns to ensure the provision of accurate, efficient, and appropriate drug distribution services or prescription fulfillment. Job Description: Baptist Health is looking for a Pharmacist, Central Distribution to join our team at the Central Pharmacy in LaGrange, KY. Performs all tasks associated with medication warehouse distribution or prescription fulfillment: receiving, screening, reviewing, scanning, distribution, prescription fulfillment, packing, auditing and shipping medications to BH facility affiliates or patients. Performs medication review, product verification and quality checks and takes necessary actions to ensure accuracy and appropriateness of medications. Verifies entry of accurate medication into different automated distribution or fulfillment systems. Leverages technology to optimize workflow and to perform all required tasks. Able to assess daily workflow needs, identify gaps and provide coverage where needed. Assists in resolving and /or troubleshooting system related problems and issues that may arise by reviewing, gathering information, calling systems tech support. Supports the efficient workflow of the pharmacy and assists the pharmacy team in identifying ways to optimize pharmacy financials, inventory management and enhance processes. Responsible for providing oversight over technicians. Assists in training new staff. Assists in the maintenance of pharmacy automation systems. Assists in inventory management processes including order review, performing compliant receiving, inventory returns, restocking shelves, and physical inventory preparation. Maintains compliance with cold chain and room temperature prescription packaging requirements based on seasonal pack-out changes. If you would like to be part of a growing family focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork and innovation, we urge you to apply now! Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama. Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians. EEO Statement: Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law. Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team. Please note that Baptist Health is a drug-free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post offer, pre-employment drug testing. NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATION AND ACCESSIBILITY TO SERVICES Persons with hearing and speech impairments can contact Baptist Health facilities by using the Kentucky Relay Service, a toll-free telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD). For voice to TDD, call 800.648.6057. For TDD to voice, call 800.648.6056.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in pharmacy or Doctorate of Pharmacy required.
Kentucky Board of Pharmacy and Indiana Board of Pharmacy license or willing and eligible to achieve.

Responsibilities

Performs all tasks associated with medication warehouse distribution or prescription fulfillment: receiving, screening, reviewing, scanning, distribution, prescription fulfillment, packing, auditing and shipping medications to BH facility affiliates or patients.
Performs medication review, product verification and quality checks and takes necessary actions to ensure accuracy and appropriateness of medications.
Verifies entry of accurate medication into different automated distribution or fulfillment systems.
Leverages technology to optimize workflow and to perform all required tasks.
Able to assess daily workflow needs, identify gaps and provide coverage where needed.
Assists in resolving and /or troubleshooting system related problems and issues that may arise by reviewing, gathering information, calling systems tech support.
Supports the efficient workflow of the pharmacy and assists the pharmacy team in identifying ways to optimize pharmacy financials, inventory management and enhance processes.
Responsible for providing oversight over technicians.
Assists in training new staff.
Assists in the maintenance of pharmacy automation systems.
Assists in inventory management processes including order review, performing compliant receiving, inventory returns, restocking shelves, and physical inventory preparation.
Maintains compliance with cold chain and room temperature prescription packaging requirements based on seasonal pack-out changes.