Clinical Pharmacist

Pharmacy Technician

Major duties include, but are not limited to:

• Enters, processes, and/or edits new prescription orders from providers accurately
• Processes refills, partials, renewal prescription requests timely
• Accurately dispenses prescriptions, medication orders, and supplies.
• Fills prescriptions by selecting the correct drug and dosage form, reducing the drug from bulk to the quantity prescribed, compounding when necessary, then packaging and labeling the drug in an appropriate manner.
• Exercises care in the dispensing of drugs, especially controlled substances, investigational and cytotoxic drugs, to assure that legal and agency regulations and instructions are followed, that proper and complete recordkeeping is maintained, and that the drug storage areas are stocked, safe, and secure.
• Reviews the patient medication profile prior to dispensing drugs and medications.
• Responsible for special formulations, and for extemporaneous compounding of routine and special medications requiring complex compounding procedures.
• Checks technician-prepared orders when necessary.

Clinical:

• Performs patient medication profile reviews upon entering orders and utilizes knowledge of pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and pharmacotherapeutics to evaluate orders for appropriateness.
• Ensures appropriate laboratory monitoring of drug therapy and provides pharmacokinetic services.
• Utilizes available resources including laboratory and other diagnostic data to communicate questionable therapy, non-formulary therapy or therapy outside of established criteria to prescribers and offers reasonable alternatives, responding to requests in a timely manner.
• Provides medication and disease state management information and participates in other educational endeavors including patient and family education and medical/nursing staff education.
• Participates in Drug Utilization Evaluations and actively documents and reports Adverse Drug Events in addition to medication errors.
• Renews expired chronic medications to stable patients with future primary care appointments. Follows applicable policy and procedures when renewing prescriptions.

Administrative/Supervisory:

• Knowledgeable of, adheres to and applies established policies and procedures during the performance of duties.
• Responsible for supervising the organization of workflow and finished products prepared by Pharmacy Technicians.
• Provides administrative consultations to patients and other CTVHCS employees concerning pharmacy policies, and regulations to resolve problems and or concerns in a caring, professional manner.
• Recognizes that communication is vital for the effective and efficient operation of the pharmacy and is responsible for communicating problems and concerns incurred on tour of duty daily through use of electronic mail to help solve problems within processes for continuous quality improvement.
• Responsible for promoting a culture of safety and will fully cooperate in efforts to improve patient safety and eradicate potential events including the reporting of events resulting in actual or potential injury to a patient.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the reporting procedures involving safety issues relating to patients.
• Supports training of Doctor of Pharmacy candidates, VALOR interns, pharmacy residents, pharmacy technician students, or other pharmacy trainees.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday; 11:00pm - 7:30am; possible weekends/holidays

Telework: Not available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement #: 55740-F/55741-F

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized