PRN Pharmacist
About The Position
The Virginia-registered Pharmacist carries out duties assigned by the Director of Pharmacy and follows departmental policies and procedures. The role interprets, compounds, and dispenses medications and pharmaceutical supplies in response to lawful orders from authorized prescribers in Virginia. The Pharmacist provides drug information to healthcare professionals and patients, participates in clinical pharmacy services, and provides pharmaceutical care as defined by the Department of Pharmacy. The central responsibility is to identify, assess, and resolve medication-related problems while supporting safe, effective, and cost-effective medication therapy and meeting patients’ pharmaceutical needs. The Pharmacist manages medication storage, preparation, and dispensing systems, supervises pharmacy technicians and support personnel, and collaborates with those involved in the medication-use process. The role also provides medication-related education, retrieves and evaluates scientific literature to answer drug-information questions, and designs, monitors, evaluates, and intervenes in patient pharmacotherapy. The Pharmacist is directly responsible to the Director of Pharmacy Services and the Clinical Manager of Pharmacy.
Requirements
- Effective communication skills.
- Effective written and verbal skills.
- Experience using computer applications, including word-processing and spreadsheet software, and pharmacy information systems.
- Graduate of an ACPE-accredited school of pharmacy at a college or university.
- Licensure by the Virginia State Board of Pharmacy by examination or reciprocity.
Responsibilities
- Manage systems for medication storage, preparation, and dispensing in accordance with appropriate techniques and health-system policies; supervise technical personnel involved in these processes.
- Evaluate medication orders and safely compound, package, and dispense medications and dosage forms.
- Collaborate with individuals involved in the medication-use process as appropriate.
- Plan, organize, and improve work activities by managing time, tasks, and available personnel effectively.
- Maintain knowledge of the facility’s automated dispensing processes and systems, including automated dispensing units, RobotRX, overwrap packaging, and bar coding.
- Provide education or in-service training on rational medication therapy and medication procedures to healthcare professionals, students, patients, and the public when requested.
- Retrieve, analyze, evaluate, and interpret scientific literature to provide accurate, concise, applicable, and timely drug-information responses to healthcare professionals.
- Design, implement, monitor, evaluate, and intervene in patient pharmacotherapy to support effective, safe, and economical care.
- Apply clinical pharmacokinetic data to design effective, safe, and economical medication regimens.
- Participate in implementing pharmacy department and facility goals, objectives, policies, and procedures, and support management.
- Manage professional practice, including time and space, professional ethics, continuing education, attendance, and punctuality.
Benefits
- Medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health, and telemedicine coverage
- Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
- Paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage, and leaves of absence
- 401(k) plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay, based on years of service
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Flexible spending accounts
- Preferred banking partnerships, retirement-readiness tools, rollover support, and financial wellbeing counseling
- Tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships, and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
- Fertility and family-building benefits
- Adoption assistance
- Life insurance and supplemental health protection plans
- Auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection, and consumer discounts
