Pharmacist PRN

American Oncology Network•Houston, TX

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Staff Pharmacist provides comprehensive medication management services that integrate clinical services, order management, and product distribution. They are responsible for the safe and appropriate use of hazardous and non-hazardous medications, ensuring proper storage and product integrity as required for patient care in accordance with institutional policies and standards. They will provide clinical drug monitoring and make therapeutic recommendations to the healthcare team as necessary. Works centrally and decentralized to perform all functions of a Registered Pharmacist including accurate dispensing, clinical interaction with the health care team, patient care monitoring and supervision of pharmacy technicians. The staff pharmacist will support AON’s formulary implementation initiatives, including but not limited to: Drug utilization reporting and analysis, therapeutic drug interchange programs, and Biosimilar integration. This clinical pharmacist will support medical providers by creating, updating, and communicating education material and provide support related to formulary preferences, performing therapeutics interchanges in the EMR with the approval of the prescriber, or within company therapeutic substitution protocols.

Requirements

PharmD degree or Bachelors’ Degree in Pharmacy, required.
Registered or Licensed Pharmacist in State of Practice.
Proficiency in MS Office Word, Excel, Power Point, and Outlook required.
Critical thinking skills including solid problem solving, analysis, decision-making, planning, time management and organizational skills.
Must be detailed oriented with the ability to exercise independent judgment.
Developed interpersonal skills, emotional intelligence, diplomacy, tact, conflict management, delegation skills, and diversity awareness.
Ability to work effectively with sensitive and confidential material and sometimes emotionally charged matters.
Effective communication skills (oral, written, presentation), is an active listener, and effectively provides balanced feedback.
Strong customer focus.
Ability to build an engaging culture of quality, performance effectiveness and operational excellence through best practices, strong business and political acumen, collaboration and partnerships, as well as a positive employee, physician and community relations.
Effectively manages own time, conflicting priorities, self, stress, and professional development.
Self-motivated and self-starter with ability work independently with limited supervision.
Ability to work remotely effectively as required.
Must be able to work effectively in a fast-paced, multi-site environment with demonstrated ability to juggle competing priorities and demands from a variety of stakeholders and sites.
Effectively lead and facilitate group discussions, coach, mentor, motivate, and engage others to align to a common goal.
Ability to effectively lead projects from inception through implementation and assessment.
Effectively hire, coach and support staff develop, as applicable, as well as manage resources, performance and employee relations, and supervise within established policies, procedures and legislation.

Nice To Haves

Experience in sterile drug admixture and inventory management, preferred.
Oncology pharmacy experience, preferred.
Experience working with EMR order sets/ flowsheets and drug substitution/interchanges, preferred.
Experience with CPR+ (Complete Patient Records), preferred.
Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist (BCPS), preferred.
Board Certified Oncology Pharmacist (BCOP), preferred.

Responsibilities

Performs medication order review, clarification, and verification assessing for completeness and appropriateness and oversees accurate drug distribution per policies and procedures.
Provides chemotherapy order processing and double checks as necessary.
Participates in hazardous/non-hazardous preparation in accordance with most current USP guidelines, utilizing the standards of sterile admixture, including appropriate hazardous waste disposal and high-risk medication double check system.
Oversees the admixture and preparation of all hazardous and non-hazardous drugs.
Supervises pharmacy technicians and support personnel, verifies their daily activities.
Assists team members when needed and volunteers for projects/assignments.
Seeks or offers constructive suggestions and feedback and communicates with pharmacy leadership to improve systems and services.
Develop and maintain an AON formulary adherence dashboard at the clinic and region level.
Analyze formulary adherence data and cross-reference with VBC and OCM programs to identify opportunities to optimize value and health outcomes.
Develop periodic drug utilization evaluations on targeted, high cost/high risk drugs.
Participate in data analysis and planning of clinical initiatives and safety programs to improve quality and sustainability of care.
Participate in clinical review of patient orders during clinic transitions to AON.
Notify prescribers and/or change treatment plans on behalf of prescribers in accordance with AON preferred formulary.
Develop communication strategies and content to best ensure clinicians are updated on formulary preference changes and utilization.
Develop and Provide drug-related and clinical education to staff/prescribers.
Respond to clinical pharmacist consultations from clinics using evidence-based guidelines and references (such as drug information, therapy recommendation, beyond use dating, etc).