About the position
The Community Health Center Retail Pharmacist is responsible for overseeing the distribution of medications to patients. Their duties include communicating with health center physicians to determine the type of medication and dosage for a patient, taking inventory of pharmaceutical drugs to reorder them based on local demand and interacting with pharmacy patients/customers to give them their prescriptions and answer medication questions. The Pharmacist will control medications by monitoring drug therapies; advising interventions. Additionally, completing pharmacy operational requirements by organizing and directing technicians' workflow, verifying their preparation and labeling of pharmaceuticals, and verifying order entries, charges, and inspections.
Responsibilities
- Provides pharmacy information by answering questions and requests of health care professionals and counseling patients on drug therapies
- Develops clinic staff's pharmacy knowledge by participating in clinical programs and training pharmacy staff, students, interns, residents, and health care professionals
- Performs medication reconciliation and comprehensive medication review based on organizational/patient specific needs
- Identifies patient specific barriers to adherence and develops plan to improve medication-taking behavior (ex. prepackaged medication packs, delivery, med synchronization, referral to PA/enrollment team)
- Complies with state and federal drug laws and regulations
- Maintains records for controlled substances and removes outdated and damaged drugs from the pharmacy inventory
- Maintains separate 340B drug inventory as appropriate
- Supervises the work results of support personnel
- Maintains current registration
- Protects patients and technicians by adhering to infection-control protocols
- Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations
- Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed
- Other duties and responsibilities as assigned and necessary to successfully oversee Pharmacy Service
Requirements
- Ensure safe prescribing and dispensing of medication
- Knowledge of FDA, BOP and all applicable regulations
- Ability to manage processes and develop implementation strategies
- Knowledge of retail pharmacy legal compliance
- Familiarity with adherence packaging and home delivery
- Previous experience in a pharmacy, retail, medical, or customer service setting
- Strong analytical and organizational skills including ability to analyze data to identify trends and communicate them through effective reporting methods
- Strong attention to detail
- Excellent oral, written, and verbal communication skills including experience presenting complex information to senior leaders
- Skilled in exercising a high degree of initiative, judgement, discretion, and decision making to achieve objectives
Nice-to-haves
- Familiarity with 340B program
- Familiarity with the MassHealth ACO program
- Familiarity with Federally Qualified Health Centers
- Experience with anti-racism activities, and/or lived experience with racism is highly preferred
