Clinical Pharmacist- Outpatient Pharmacy, 40hr, Day-Holden
Clinical Pharmacist- Outpatient Pharmacy, 40hr, Day-Holden
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Are you an internal caregiver student or contingent worker/agency worker at UMass Memorial Health CLICK HERE to apply through your Workday account.
Exemption Status:
ExemptSchedule Details:
Holidays - No More Than Every Third Holiday Monday through Friday Weekends (Saturday and Sunday)Scheduled Hours:
8am-6pmShift:
1 - Day Shift 8 Hours (United States of America)Hours:
40Cost Center:
10010 - 3830 Home Delivery PharmacyThis position may have a signing bonus available a member of the Recruitment Team will confirm eligibility during the interview process.
Everyone Is a Caregiver
At UMass Memorial Health everyone is a caregiver regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care academic excellence and leading-edge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts and a place where we can help you build the career you deserve. We are more than 20000 employees working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients community and each other. And everyone in their own unique way plays an important part every day.
This positions responsibility is to help patients and other health care professionals as well as the health care system to efficiently achieve optimal therapeutic outcomes. Key performance areas of responsibility are Clinical Operations/Distribution Financial Safety and Regulatory Research and Education.Provides comprehensive medication management services that integrate clinical services order management patient/staff education and research for employees and outpatients. Ambulatory pharmacists are responsible for improving the patients experience safety and achieving positive clinical and financial outcomes. This position is responsible to an immediate supervisor with co-supervision provided by the management team.
Major Responsibilities:
- Participates in drug therapy management and documents the care provided in patients medical records. Participates in interdisciplinary reviews of patients progress as well as communicates pertinent patient information to other health care providers when patients change care settings to ensure continuity of care.
- Prepares medications by reviewing and interpreting physician orders; detecting therapeutic incompatibilities.
- Dispenses medications by compounding packaging and labeling pharmaceuticals.
- Contacts and confers with physicians and other practitioners to optimize drug therapy and advising of needed interventions.
- Assists patients in gaining access to medications (e.g. working with payers to resolve issues that may impede access to medication therapies) when applicable.
- Interprets and responds to clinical decision support and drug utilization review from internal and external systems on patients drug therapy.
- Provide individualized health promotion and disease prevention including administration of immunizations where legal and authorized.
- Provides computer order entry ensuring proper technique and accurate preparation of all pharmaceutical products.
- Supervises technicians as needed.
- Complies with state and federal drug laws as regulated by the state board of pharmacy the drug enforcement administration and the food and drug administration.
- Provides pharmacological information by answering requests of health care professionals.
- Counseling patients on drug therapies.
- Report all adverse drug reactions and drug related events to proper persons.
- Maintains all records need for the proper handling of 340b purchased medications and facilitates the most cost-effective means for the procurement of pharmaceuticals.
- Precepts Early Pharmacy Practice Experience (EPPE) rotation students and Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience (APPE) rotation students and pharmacy residents consistent with academic credentials and clinical experience.
- Prepares presentations publications and other information sharing activities for the health care community and general public.
- Participates in continuing education programs meetings training programs and related activities.
Position Qualifications:
License/Certification/Education:
Required:
- Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D) degree or Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy (BSPharm) degree.
- Licensed in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Experience/Skills:
Required:
- 3 years ambulatory experience.
- Must have essential skills to implement motivational interviewing skills to assist the patient in taking an active part in their health care and promote healthy lifestyles.
- Must be able to cross-cover in a variety of practice areas within the pharmacy as requested by supervisor.
Schedule between the hours of 8am-6pm includes weekend and Holiday rotation
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or protected veteran status.
Were striving to make respect a part of everything we do at UMass Memorial Health for our patients our community and each other. Our six Standards of Respect are: Acknowledge Listen Communicate Be Responsive Be a Team Player and Be Kind. If you share these Standards of Respect we hope you will join our team and help us make respect our standard for everyone every day.
As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer UMass Memorial Health recognizes the power of a diverse community and encourages applications from individuals with varied experiences perspectives and backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion gender sexual orientation national origin age disability gender identity and expression protected veteran status or other status protected by law.
If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability please contact us at We will make every effort to respond to your request for disability assistance as soon as possible.
Employment Type
Full-Time
