Pharmacy Coordinator

Pharmacy Coordinator

The Pharmacy Coordinator oversees clinical, compounding, operational, and regulatory processes to provide care for an individual clinical pharmacy. This role may have a team of direct reports working in a defined practice setting. The Pharmacy Coordinator works with other pharmacy leaders to evaluate the pharmacy processes and is responsible for optimizing them to improve the quality and efficiency of patient care.

Essential Job Functions

• Supervises the work of professional and technical pharmacy staff; scheduling, assigning, directing, and monitoring the quality and quantity of work performed.
• Performs quality control checks to ensure that the work of pharmacy team members is both accurate and appropriate and that staff are fully competent to perform their duties.
• Monitors the use and administration of patients' drug regimens and the appropriateness of serum drug levels.
• Verifies dose appropriateness based on clinical goals and expectations.
• Monitors and evaluates adverse drug reactions and pharmacist interventions.
• Coordinates clinical pharmacy activities with physician, nursing, laboratory, and other personnel, developing and assisting in the implementation of clinical pathways and therapeutic guidelines.
• Teaches and instructs pharmacists, nurses, physicians, and others regarding the technical skills used in monitoring drug therapy.
• Coordinates pharmacy record keeping, auditing, and other drug control policies, procedures and activities as required by County, State, and Federal law.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned.

Education

• Required: PharmD.
• Preferred: PGY1 and/or PGY2 residency.

Experience

• Required: 3 years of pharmacy practice experience.

Licensure/Certification/Listing

• Required: Active license to practice pharmacy in North Carolina or eligible to obtain pharmacy license within two (2) months of hire; BLS (CPR)-American Red Cross or AHA Healthcare Provider.