Population Health Pharmacist Full Time Days Jefferson Center Center City

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Job Description

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Interacts with co-workers visitors and other staff consistent with the values of Jefferson.
• Develops and implements pharmacy initiatives directed at improving prescribing patterns of Jefferson ambulatory providers that promote high value high quality safe and cost-efficient prescribing. This may include identification of prescribing patterns that may lead to improper drug selection sub-therapeutic dosage overdose patient failure to receive medication adverse drug reactions drug interactions and medication without indication and unnecessary prescribing of high-cost medications.
• Develops and implements patient education initiatives related to the individuals disease state including predictable actions side effects reasons for proper compliance and any special instruction.
• Works with Population Health teams and providers to improve performance on value-based payer contracts.
• Provides education to providers and staff via presentations newsletters formal utilization reviews and one-on-one interactions.
• Analytic review of drug utilization data provided by insurers and analytic team and assure ongoing performance improvement of the pharmaceutical care services
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• Works with Ambulatory Pharmacist Program Medical Director and DVACO Director of Population Health Pharmacy Strategy help to determine and implement strategic pharmacy plans.
• Conducts patient medication history reviews on high-risk patients and offer alternative therapeutic suggestions or changes to regimen.
• For high-risk patients given a diagnosis synthesize a treatment plan which may include drug therapy and lifestyle modifications and transition within the continuum of care settings.
• Comprehensive knowledge of current pharmacological/biopharmaceutical principles medical terminology pathologies disease states and related information for a medical management plan.
• Knowledge of basic statistics and of federal and State laws & regulations regarding the provision of pharmaceutical services.
• Ability to operate the pharmacy computer system(s) as appropriate and to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.
• Appropriate documentation of interventions in the EMR.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

EDUCATIONAL/TRAINING REQUIREMENTS:

• PharmD from an ACPE-accredited College of Pharmacy required.
• Successful completion of an ASHP-accredited PGY1 residency and/or PGY2 residency in ambulatory care preferred or 1 years of patient care delivery experience required (3 years preferred).
• Ambulatory clinical residency preferred.

CERTIFICATES LICENSES AND REGISTRATION:

• Current PA Registered Pharmacist License: Basic Life Support (BLS) card preferred. NPI# required within one month of hire.
• Board Certification in Ambulatory Care is required within 18 months of employment.

EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

• Experience in ambulatory practice or ambulatory network preferred.
• Experience with analyzing and reviewing pharmacy reports.
• 1 years of patient care delivery experience required if a clinical pharmacy residency was not successfully completed 3 years preferred.

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Nationally ranked Jefferson which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65000 people strong dedicated to providing the highest-quality compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrows professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College Jefferson College of Nursing and the Kanbar College of Design Engineering and Commerce dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200 undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8300 students. Jefferson Health nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age race color religion creed sexual orientation gender gender identity marital status pregnancy national origin ancestry citizenship military status veteran status handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.

Benefits

Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues including medical (including prescription) supplemental insurance dental vision life and AD&D insurance short- and long-term disability flexible spending accounts retirement plans tuition assistance as well as voluntary benefits which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues including those who work less than part-time(including per diemcolleagues adjunct faculty and Jeff Temps) have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.

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