Clinical Pharmacist - Outpatient Primary Care

Job Description

Job Description

Description:

**Hybrid Remote/Brevard County 

**Spanish speaking preferred but not required. 

ABOUT PEOPLEONE HEALTH:

PeopleOne Health is one of the fastest-growing providers of value-based primary care, consistently earning best-in-class member satisfaction scores. We deliver exceptional healthcare that lowers costs and significantly improves health outcomes by emphasizing preventive care, behavior change, and a proactive approach to wellness through our unique direct primary care model. Our culture thrives on a simple yet powerful motto: care for yourself, care for each other, and care for our members.

How PeopleOne Health can positively impact your career:

• Strong work-life balance
• Environment that promotes job satisfaction
• Collaboration with innovative healthcare leaders
• Emphasis on quality over quantity–build and foster meaningful relationships with patients
• Comprehensive Employee Benefits 
• Support for continuing Medical Education dues and subscriptions 

JOB SUMMARY:

PeopleOne Health is a direct-pay primary care organization where staff focus entirely on delivering exceptional care, free from the administrative burden of insurance-based models. Our multidisciplinary care team includes a Clinical Pharmacist whose role is to enhance patient outcomes, reduce overall healthcare costs, and improve the patient experience. The Clinical Pharmacist works primarily in an outpatient family medicine clinic setting and is responsible for performing medication reconciliation, counseling patients on medications and health-related topics, and conducting drug utilization reviews. This role also includes actively supporting the provider team through regular pharmacy rounds, offering clinical guidance, and contributing to the achievement of clinical quality measures related to prescribing practices and evidence-based medication management.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

This position provides supervision to others: No

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Provide comprehensive medication therapy management for a wide variety of patients with chronic health conditions
• Work closely with other members of the healthcare team including physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, behavioral health specialists, and others
• Engage in a collaborative practice model with providers to initiate, adjust, and discontinue medications, order and monitor labs, and refill prescriptions.
• Respond to clinical questions and concerns on a timely basis
• Serve as a key clinical support person for executing MTM services and precepting pharmacy students
• Develop, implement and continually update patient educational materials
• Participate in clinical and operational process improvement and cost savings opportunities while ensuring compliance with federal and state regulations
• Maintain all patient information and records
• Provide adequate notes and documentation within the EHR or MTM platform to ensure proper reimbursement, patient safety, and to provide seamless management of patients amongst all staff.
• Remains current on departmental policies, procedures, formularies, and regulatory standards
• Participate in departmental quality improvement activities, including clinical opportunities as well as operational efficiencies in order to continually improve and evaluate pharmaceutical care as reflected by operational and patient care indicators.
• Participate in client reporting meetings to provide insight into engagement data
• Comply with all applicable legal rules, regulations, and procedures
• Ability to travel to designated area health centers to maintain compliance and be an in-person resource to patients and providers. 
• Performs other related duties as assigned

Requirements:

SKILLS & ABILITIES:

• Good organizational skills
• Excellent communication skills with a customer-oriented approach
• Integrity and compassion
• Experience in a patient care environment
• Understanding of basic design of drug benefits
• Ability to question members and providers to understand concerns or needs
• High energy, mature, and comfortable working with all levels of professionals, students, and patients
• Highly dependable

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS :

• Doctor of Pharmacy Degree (PharmD) or Doctor of Pharmacy equivalent 
• Completion of PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Program, or higher, or equivalent experience in ambulatory care preferred (see below)
• Current active pharmacist license in good standing in the state of Florida required, candidates with additional licenses may be preferred
• Current CPR Certification 
• Preferred, but not required, candidate is bilingual in English and Spanish or proficient in medical Spanish

EXPERIENCE:

• 3-5 years of pharmacist experience or completion of PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Program
• Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Experience preferred

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

(The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the position’s essential functions.)

• While performing the duties of this position, the employee may be exposed to adverse indoor and outdoor environmental conditions, bloodborne pathogens, physical hazards (e.g., needle pricks, etc.) and chemical hazards. 
• The employee is regularly required to talk or hear. 
• The employee frequently is required to use hands or fingers, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls. 
• The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; and reach with hands and arms. 
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds. 
• Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus. The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate.
• Light work with some physical demands such as continuously lifting/moving materials less than 25 pounds, but rarely moving more than 25 to 50 pounds.