Clinical Pharmacist

Overview:

Join us and be a part of Trillium-a mission driven team committed to expanding access to high quality, compassionate care for everyone we serve. The Clinical Pharmacist will collaborate with primary care providers, clinic team members, and pharmacy team members to provide a cohesive care team to benefit the health of patients. The Clinical Pharmacist participates in day-to-day clinical pharmacy operations through collaborative practice agreements. For clinical operations, activities may include, but are not limited to: patient counseling, consultations with provider and nursing teams, treatment adherence reporting and drug monitoring, coordination of long acting injectables, and assisting the prescribers in the appropriate ordering of pharmaceuticals and supplies.

Key Responsibilities

Provision of Direct Patient Care/Chronic Disease Management

• Provide and oversee chronic disease state management utilizing collaborative drug therapy management (CDTM) for clinic patients (minimum of 1 patient every hour, total of 8-10 patients a day while on clinic days).
• Upon referral, assess patient, adjust medications, screen for drug interactions and adverse effects, provide disease/medication education, and explore opportunities to simplify &/or decrease the cost of the medication regimen.
• Clinical pharmacist will utilize CDTM to prescribe medication adjustment, order labs and work collaboratively with patient's primary care provider.
• Provide support to patients and providers and promote self-management for chronic disease states and/or pharmacologic management, including but not limited to:
  • Diabetes
  • COPD, Asthma
  • Cardiovascular disease (hypertension, heart failure, hyperlipidemia)
  • Anticoagulation
• Medication reconciliation (regularly scheduled and/or as ordered by provider)
• Recommend appropriate vaccines
• Implementation, coordination, and administration of long acting injectables for HIV, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), substance use disorder, etc.

Collaborative Care Team

• Collaborate with pharmacy team and provider team to ensure access to medications
• Work to improve the stewardship of the limited healthcare resources including assisting third party billing specialists with drug prior authorizations as needed.
• Collaborating on innovative projects and policies/procedures to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of pharmacy-clinic operations and prescribing within the organization. Including being available during clinic days to answer any provider questions about appropriate prescribing/cost-effective prescribing.

Preceptor/Educator

• Provide education to patients, providers, and medical staff in written and verbal formats that include formal and informal presentations.
• Create opportunities for patient-focused educational workshops and/or pop-up events to educate on chronic disease states and advocate for use of clinic and pharmacy services.
• Drug therapy resource to providers and other members of the health care team.
• Precept other pharmacy residents and students.

Committee Attendance

• Pharmacy Services Committee (PSC)
• QAPI Primary Care committee
• Quality Management Committee (pharmacy)
• Medical Staff Meeting, Internal Medicine Meeting, and any other clinic wide meetings

Miscellaneous:

• Requires the ability and commitment to respect and support patients, other employees and visitors with various lived experiences.
• Requires individual demonstration of commitment to the mission, vision, One Trillium values, behaviors and modeling them in the organization.
• Responsible for maintaining confidentiality of all patient, client, employee, protected and proprietary information.
• Employees are accountable for meeting the performance standards of their departments and must participate as requested in compliance audits and quality improvement plans.
• Required to participate in continuous improvement of job responsibilities and organizational or work processes to advance the organization or department.
• Other specific duties as assigned.

Required Key Skills and Qualifications

Required:

• Doctor of Pharmacy or BS Pharmacy degree
• Completion of PGY-1 residency or 3 years clinical experience in ambulatory care setting
• Current NYS pharmacist license with immunizer credential
• Current NYS Collaborative Drug Therapy Management credential, or ability to obtain within 3 months of hire
• Minimum of 1 year experience in primary care pharmacy involving direct, collaborative patient care
• Experience precepting students and/or residents

Preferred:

• Current Board of Pharmacy Specialties credential
• Current American Academy of HIV Medicine Pharmacist (AAHIVP) credential
• Certified Diabetes Educator (CDE) or Board Certified-Advanced Diabetes Management (BC-ADM)
• Completion of PGY-2 residency in primary care, ambulatory care or similar experience
• Experience working in community-based health care setting
• An understanding of EMRs is helpful. The ability to demonstrate teamwork and effective interpersonal relations skills is imperative. Excellent written/oral communication and computer skills are required.

Physical Requirements

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand, sit, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk; and hear. Occasionally the employee must stoop, bend, and lift or move up to 25 lbs. Vision requirements include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
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