Pharmacist(Clinical Specialist) - Ambulatory Care Mental Health

Job Title

Ambulatory Care Mental Health Clinical Pharmacy Specialist

Duties

The Ambulatory Care Mental Health Clinical Pharmacy Specialist:

• Promotes the appropriate, economical, safe, and effective use of medication therapy through maintaining an independent Mental Health Ambulatory Clinical Pharmacy practice site.
• Maintains collaborative and comprehensive medication therapy management clinics and services in designated areas of practice, under a scope of practice. This shall include physical assessment, ordering laboratory and diagnostic tests necessary to manage medication therapy, referring patients to appropriate health care providers as needed, performing patient triage functions and independently initiating, adjusting and discontinuing medications.
• Delivers direct care to patients through a variety of modalities which may include but are not limited to: Face-to-face, telephone, video/telemedicine, e-consults, chart reviews, shared medical appointments, drop-in group medical appointments, group education classes and/or secured messaging interactions.
• Documents encounters and clinical decisions in Electronic Health Record (EHR) progress notes.
• Utilizes Pharmacists Achieve Results with Medication Documentation (PhARMD) Tool to track disease state and other clinical interventions.
• Responds to alerts sent by other members of the health care team.
• Maintains a collaborative case management relationship with registered nurse case/care managers and nurse practitioners within designated practice areas. The CPS provides appropriate independent medication changes including initiation, adjustment, and discontinuation for patients seen and evaluated and/or presented to the CPS and deemed to be within the CPS scope of practice for disease state management.
• Provides medication extensions when prescribing provider is not available.
• Critically reviews prior authorization drug requests according to criteria for use, appropriateness, safety, cost-effectiveness and utilizing evidence-based decision-making.
• Provides professional consultative services related to their designated area of practice. Professional consultative services include but are not limited to extensive drug information services, formulary management, and medication recommendations.

Work Schedule

7:30am - 4:00pm, Negotiable

Telework

Not Available

Virtual

This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives

Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS)

Not Authorized