City/State
Chesapeake VA
Work Shift
First (Days)
Overview:
Sentara is hiring a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist for our Ambulatory Team
Location: Remote Select States Only*
Status: Full Time 40 hrs/wk)
Shift: First
Hours: 8am4:30 / 8:30am5pm
No Weekends or Holidays
*Alabama Delaware Florida Georgia Idaho Indiana Kansas Louisiana Maine Maryland Minnesota Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Pennsylvania South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Virginia Washington (State) West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming
The Clinical Pharmacy Specialist participates in all aspects of the medicationuse system while delivering comprehensive and personalized pharmaceutical care to patients in their designated areas. This role assumes leadership and accountability for specific clinical pharmacy areas demonstrates advanced skills and expertise and obtains advanced certification in their practice area if available.
- Manages patient drug therapy in accordance with applicable clinical practice standards
- Assures the appropriateness of all provider medication orders in maintaining a high level of patient care and safety
- Maintains advanced knowledge of medication use disease states and regulations applicable to their area of practice
- Serves as the primary resource for drug information and education
- Provides indepth patient counseling when required
- Supports the training of new employees and participates in the creation and maintenance of training materials
- Assumes local and system responsibility and ownership for assigned tasks
- Consistently follows and assists with the development of policies and procedures
- Demonstrates superior customer service effective communication decisionmaking and organization to ensure efficient job performance and success
- Ensures adequate supplies are available for continuous patient care
- Triages and escalates any questions or issues outside the scope of practice as needed
- Uses appropriate systems for processing of patient information
- Ensures quality assurance is maintained according to departmental and legal requirements
- Precepts pharmacy students and/or pharmacy residents as assigned
- Provide peer coaching and constructive feedback to other colleagues in a professional and productive manner
- Successfully leads local and system implementation of various system initiatives
- Serves as a system expert and site lead in specialized clinical pharmacy functions
- In addition to the above job responsibilities other duties may be assigned
Education
- Doctorate Level Degree in Pharmacy (Required)
Certification/Licensure
- Virginia Pharmacist License (Required)
- North Carolina Pharmacist License (Required / Can obtain after hired)
- Basic Life Support (BLS) (Required)
Experience
- 3 years experience in Ambulatory or Inpatient Pharmacy (Required)
- Experience in Medication Reconciliation
- Strong Knowledge of Anticoagulation medications
- Experience working with Medicare Advantage (Preferred)
- Diabetes management experience (Preferred)
- Residency in Ambulatory Care (Preferred)
We provide marketcompetitive compensation packages inclusive of base pay incentives and benefits. The base pay rate for Full Time employment is: $48.79(hourly) to $81.31(hourly).Additional compensation may be available for this role such as shift differentials standby/oncall overtime premiums extra shift incentives or bonus opportunities.
Keywords: Pharmacy Drug Counseling Ambulatory Pharmacy Resident
Benefits: Caring For Your Family and Your Career
Medical Dental Vision plans
Adoption Fertility and Surrogacy Reimbursement up to $10000
Paid Time Off and Sick Leave
Paid Parental & Family Caregiver Leave
Emergency Backup Care
LongTerm ShortTerm Disability and Critical Illness plans
Life Insurance
401k/403B with Employer Match
Tuition Assistance $5250/year and discounted educational opportunities through Guild Education
Student Debt Pay Down $10000
Reimbursement for certifications and free access to complete CEUs and professional development
Pet Insurance
Legal Resources Plan
Colleagues have the opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus ifestablished system and employee eligibility criteria is met.
Sentara Health is an equal opportunity employer and prides itself on the diversity and inclusiveness of its close to an almost 30000member workforce. Diversity inclusion and belonging is a guiding principle of the organization to ensure its workforce reflects the communities it serves.
In support of our mission to improve health every day this is a tobaccofree environment.
For positions that are available as remote work Sentara Health employs associates in the following states:
Alabama Delaware Florida Georgia Idaho Indiana Kansas Louisiana Maine Maryland Minnesota Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Pennsylvania South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin and Wyoming.