Clinical Pharmacist, Outpatient Pharmacy-Prescription Center, Per Diem

UMass Memorial Health • Worcester, MA

34d • Onsite

About The Position

This position is for a Clinical Pharmacist in the Outpatient Pharmacy at UMass Memorial Health. The role involves participating in drug therapy management, preparing and dispensing medications, optimizing drug therapy with physicians, assisting patients with medication access, and providing health promotion and disease prevention services. The pharmacist will also be responsible for computer order entry, supervising technicians, complying with drug laws, providing pharmacological information, counseling patients, reporting adverse drug reactions, maintaining records for 340b purchased medications, precepting students and residents, and preparing educational materials. UMass Memorial Health emphasizes that everyone is a caregiver and values diversity, respect, and inclusion.

Requirements

• Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D) degree or Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy (BSPharm) degree.
• Licensed in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
• 3 years ambulatory experience.
• Essential skills to implement motivational interviewing skills to assist the patient in taking an active part in their health care and promote healthy lifestyles.
• Must be able to cross-cover in a variety of practice areas within the pharmacy as requested by supervisor.

Responsibilities

• Participates in drug therapy management and documents the care provided in patients’ medical records.
• Participates in interdisciplinary reviews of patients’ progress, as well as communicates pertinent patient information to other health care providers when patients change care settings to ensure continuity of care.
• Prepares medications by reviewing and interpreting physician orders; detecting therapeutic incompatibilities.
• Dispenses medications by compounding, packaging, and labeling pharmaceuticals.
• Contacts and confers with physicians and other practitioners to optimize drug therapy and advising of needed interventions.
• Assists patients in gaining access to medications (e.g., working with payers to resolve issues that may impede access to medication therapies) when applicable.
• Interprets and responds to clinical decision support and drug utilization review from internal and external systems on patients’ drug therapy.
• Provide individualized health promotion and disease prevention, including administration of immunizations where legal and authorized.
• Provides computer order entry, ensuring proper technique and accurate preparation of all pharmaceutical products.
• Supervises technicians as needed.
• Complies with state and federal drug laws as regulated by the state board of pharmacy, the drug enforcement administration, and the food and drug administration.
• Provides pharmacological information by answering requests of health care professionals.
• Counseling patients on drug therapies.
• Report all adverse drug reactions and drug related events to proper persons.
• Maintains all records need for the proper handling of 340b purchased medications and facilitates the most cost-effective means for the procurement of pharmaceuticals.
• Precepts Early Pharmacy Practice Experience (EPPE) rotation students, and Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience (APPE) rotation students, and pharmacy residents consistent with academic credentials and clinical experience.
• Prepares presentations, publications and other information sharing activities for the health care community and general public.
• Participates in continuing education programs, meetings, training programs and related activities.

Benefits

• Signing bonus

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level