Clinical/Staff Pharmacist

Clinical Pharmacist

The Clinical Pharmacist works in collaboration with HJA providers to provide top quality care to its patients and the general community. Clinical Pharmacist will provide direct clinical care to patients including medication therapy management, participation in collaborative practice agreements, coordination of treatment with licensed independent practitioners, and general patient care management. The Clinical Pharmacist will support the Lead Clinical Pharmacist in carrying out new and established clinical pharmacy initiatives to improve patient health outcomes and clinical pharmacy services reimbursement.

Essential Functions

• In collaboration with the CMO and HJA clinical staff, designs, develops and implements protocols and criterion to determine patients requiring close medication monitoring. Collect, analyze and provide regular written updates on patient outcomes to HJA Leadership.
• Oversees a continuum of patient care that includes collection of pertinent patient data, drug utilization reviews, and patient counseling.
• Performs prospective and retrospective drug utilization reviews (DURs); discusses the recommended interventions with the patient and the patient's Primary Care Provider (PCP).
• Provides clinical interventions to improve clinical outcomes, adherence to treatment plans, and overall patient care. Interventions may include demonstrating the use of devices such as metered dose inhalers or blood glucometers, discussing the adverse effects of medications and methods to alleviate these effects, discussing herbal/nutritional supplement options for different disease states, and suggesting drug or nondrug therapies for common ailments.
• Provides ongoing clinical and disease management trainings to HJA staff and patients that address common diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and asthma.
• Assists with the development and implementation of collaborative practice agreements for management of chronic disease states and collaborates with HJA and external health care professionals to plan, monitor, review, and evaluate patient care.
• Analyzes prescribing trends to monitor patient compliance and to prevent excessive usage or harmful interactions.
• Dispenses and reviews prescriptions to ensure accuracy, and compliance with professional, state and federal regulatory requirements.
• Participate in HJAHC committees as they relate to clinical pharmacy activities.
• Fulfills his/her obligation to contribute to the general knowledge that advances health and quality of life through attendance at conferences, development and delivery of post and platform presentations, and/or publication in reputable, peer-reviewed journals.

Additional Responsibilities

• Performs other duties and assumes other responsibilities as apparent and/or as assigned by Director of Pharmacy. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.

The Staff Pharmacist reports to and works in collaboration with the Pharmacist-In-Charge (PIC) to serve patients of HJAHC and Henry J. Austin Pharmacy (HJAP) by preparing medications, processing medication renewal requests, providing pharmacological information to the health care team, and monitoring patient drug therapies.

Essential Functions

• Maintains the day-to-day operations of the pharmacy.
• Maintains the management of the pharmacy in the absence of the PIC.
• Serves in a leadership capacity to oversee the workflow of the pharmacy, including delegation of staff responsibilities.
• Maintains established procedures concerning quality assurance, security of controlled substances, and disposal of hazardous waste drugs.
• Oversees management and confidentiality of patients' personal medical data and other personal identifiable information and provides appropriate training to pharmacy staff.
• Ensures all services are in compliance with professional standards, state, and federal regulatory requirements.
• Maintains a safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
• Maintains pharmacy inventories, including management of virtual inventories.
• Reviews prescription orders for completeness, accuracy, and appropriateness.
• Enters data, such as patient name, prescribed medication, and cost, to maintain pharmacy files, charge systems, and inventory.
• Prepares and dispenses prescribed medications, drugs, and pharmaceuticals for high quality patient care.
• Compounds medications using standard formulas and processes such as weighing, measuring, and mixing ingredients.
• Directs pharmacy personnel engaged in mixing, packaging, and labeling pharmaceuticals.
• Answers healthcare professional and patient drug information requests.
• Provides counseling to patients regarding ordered medications, including, but not limited to, indication, directions for administration, potential side effects and interactions, expected time to desired effect, and appropriate storage.
• Reviews department of health stock inventory and orders as completed by the pharmacy technicians for accuracy.
• Reviews prescription renewal requests and authorizes or denies requests according to the renewal policy.
• Maintains pharmacological knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, and participating in professional societies.
• Promotes joy in the workplace to achieve organizational goals, mission, and vision.

Requirements: Education & Experience

• Graduate of an ACPE-accredited school of pharmacy with a B.S. or PharmD degree required
• Successful completion of ACPE-accredited PGY1 residency or equivalent experience required
• Successful complete of PGY2 residency in ambulatory care or equivalent experience preferred
• New Jersey Board of Pharmacy Pre-Approval to engage in collaborative practice agreement preferred

Licensure and/or Certifications

• Licensed in the state of New Jersey (or eligible and able to obtain prior to start date) required
• Medication Therapy Management (MTM) certification and/or experience conducting and billing for MTM services preferred
• Pharmacy-Based Immunization certification and licensure in the state of New Jersey preferred

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Other (KSAO's)

• Bilingual English/Spanish preferred
• Understanding of clinical pharmacy service billing and reimbursement
• High energy and enthusiasm, positive, "can-do" attitude with a high degree of initiative
• Must be able to work in a team environment and collaborative environment
• High attention to detail
• Passion and commitment to community health
• Strong passion for working in an urban environment with patients with complex drug regimens
• Strong verbal communications skills and demonstrated ability to write clearly and persuasively
• Demonstrated ability to use Microsoft Office applications, including Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint

Physical & Work Requirements

The physical demands 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 essential functions. This position requires the manual dexterity sufficient to operate phones, computers and other office equipment. The position requires the physical ability to kneel, bend, and perform light lifting. This person must have the ability to write and speak clearly using the English language to convey information and be able to hear at normal speaking levels both in person and over the telephone. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus. Generally, the working conditions are good with little or no exposure to extremes in health, safety hazards and/or hazardous materials. Salary: $85,100 - $126,000