Clinical Pharmacist - Outpatient Specialty Pharmacy 24 hours

Children's Hospital Boston • Boston, MA

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About The Position

Our Outpatient Specialty Pharmacy provides fully integrated services to deliver the best possible care to our patients. The Boston Children's care team is comprised of pharmacy liaisons and clinical pharmacists that work together to support clinical teams, and our patients and their families. This 24-hour Clinical Pharmacist - Outpatient Specialty Pharmacy will be responsible for: * Interpreting and evaluating medication orders to ensure drug and dosage are appropriate for patient and to identify possible adverse reactions, contacting physician as needed. * Reviewing, filling and dispense physician medication orders/prescriptions. * Checking orders/prescriptions filled by support personnel, verifying products are correctly prepared and labeled, prior authorization resolution, and prescription processing (PV1 and PV2). * Providing drug information as a subject matter expert. * Providing patient education. * Completing medication history documentation. * Performing quality improvement activities. * Supervising support personnel within assigned work area and ensuring products are prepared and distributed in accordance with established procedures, schedules and protocols.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in pharmacy, and one plus years of experience as a Retail or Specialty pharmacist. Doctorate degree in Pharmacy preferred.
• Experience filling prescriptions using Epic Willow Ambulatory (WAM) is highly desirable.
• Current license and registration by the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Pharmacy.
• Analytical skills to collect information from diverse sources, apply professional principles in performing various analyses, and summarize the information and data in order to solve problems OR design relatively complex systems and programs.
• Communication skills in order to effectively deal with conflicting views or issues and mediate fair solutions, or well-developed writing skills.
• Previous specialty hospital pharmacy and pediatric experience highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Interpreting and evaluating medication orders to ensure drug and dosage are appropriate for patient and to identify possible adverse reactions, contacting physician as needed.
• Reviewing, filling and dispense physician medication orders/prescriptions.
• Checking orders/prescriptions filled by support personnel, verifying products are correctly prepared and labeled, prior authorization resolution, and prescription processing (PV1 and PV2).
• Providing drug information as a subject matter expert.
• Providing patient education.
• Completing medication history documentation.
• Performing quality improvement activities.
• Supervising support personnel within assigned work area and ensuring products are prepared and distributed in accordance with established procedures, schedules and protocols.

Benefits

• Flexible schedules
• Affordable health, vision and dental insurance
• Childcare and student loan subsidies
• Generous levels of time off
• 403(b) Retirement Savings plan
• Pension
• Tuition and certain License and Certification Reimbursement
• Cell phone plan discounts
• Discounted rates on T-passes

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Hospitals
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees