Oncology Clinical Pharmacy Programs & UM Specialist

Job Summary

In addition to the responsibilities listed below, this position is also responsible for helping to drive application, maintain, and implement complex clinical practice standing orders, drug therapy management protocols and guidelines (e.g., collaborative protocols with providers); developing complex trainings to continue drug education and staff development in-services for pharmacists, physicians, and other health care professionals, and students; independently providing direct patient care for medication initiation, medication selection, dosage titration, drug monitoring, patient engagement, medication adherence counseling, side effect management, medication discontinuation, and guides junior colleagues to do the same; maintaining relationships with providers to align drug conversion, drug tapering, and discontinuation initiatives and determine opportunities; providing consultative expertise to initiative implementation and conducting data analyses regarding measurement follow up and minimization of gaps to drive implementation of processes and workflow for assigned service areas; identifying and escalating as needed formulary concerns and influencing formulary adherence; suggesting potential improvements to initiatives and clinical services and monitoring progress of standard new/existing initiatives; and suggesting improvement areas and driving junior colleagues to implement new services for a disease state or care grouping/specialty (e.g., MTM).

Essential Responsibilities

• Promotes learning in others by communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; builds relationships with cross-functional stakeholders. Listens, responds to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; provides actionable feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership and mentors junior team members. Practices self-leadership; creates and executes plans to capitalize on strengths and improve opportunity areas; influences team members within assigned team or unit. Adapts to competing demands and new responsibilities; adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback. Models team collaboration within and across teams.
• Conducts or oversees business-specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area; promotes adherence to all procedures and policies. Partners internally and externally to make effective business decisions; determines and carries out processes and methodologies; solves complex problems; escalates high-priority issues or risks, as appropriate; monitors progress and results. Develops work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; coordinates and delegates resources to accomplish organizational goals. Recognizes and capitalizes on improvement opportunities; evaluates recommendations made; influences the completion of project tasks by others.
• Leads drug education and training efforts by: developing complex trainings to continue drug education and staff development in-services for pharmacists, physicians, and other health care professionals, and students.
• Provides pharmaceutical patient care and drug therapy by: proactively monitoring, identifying, and managing productive relationships with care providers and members; providing complex case-specific drug information (e.g., drug therapy, adverse effects, compliance, appropriate use, and handling) to health care providers and members, independently; researching, organizing, identifying moderately complex issues, and/or recommending patient-specific drug therapy plans while evaluating progress of therapy through interviews, physical assessment, patient education and clinical laboratory monitoring, independently; analyzing, identifying trends, and presenting complex therapeutic outcomes to health care providers to collaboratively identify high-impact drug plan improvements, independently; facilitating implementation process, evaluating, and reporting utilization, as appropriate, of targeted medications and medication classes to senior leader, monitoring impact of initiative work to assure safe, rational and cost-effective prescribing; developing, implementing and analyzing clinicians or department-level decisions, support, and feedback using tools, effectively engaging and promoting support for the drug use management process; and supporting leadership and coordination of complex pharmaceutical care and optimal utilization of resources to and from acute and ambulatory patient-care settings.
• Leverages, maintains, and complies with all existing internal and external quality, safety, emergency, and accreditation policy and procedures by: adhering to all regulatory rules and regulations (e.g., Drug Enforcement Administration [DEA], State Board of Pharmacy, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act [HIPAA] and relevant internal regional and national policies; ensuring patient safety in the long-term preparation and provisioning of care (e.g., medications, procedures, infection prevention), including consistent use of two patient identifiers and procedural time outs; proactively preventing safety hazards, accidents and incidents, and unsafe working conditions promptly; and collaborating with physicians, other medical professionals, and health plan personnel to proactively resolve complex and assure quality and process outcome measures.