Clinical Pharmacist, Specialty Pharmacy, 1st Shift

Overview:

Job Title: Clinical Pharmacist, Specialty Pharmacy

We are Hiring at Ambulatory Care Building

Location: 550 South Jackson St Louisville KY 40202

Shift Options: 1st shift Full Time

The Specialty Pharmacist provides high-touch pharmaceutical care to patients with chronic disease states and deals exclusively with medications and pharmaceuticals that are high in costs, require special handling, are subject to limited or restricted distribution, require ongoing assessment, treat rare disease, or require active monitoring of side effects. The Specialty Pharmacist has an increased focus on patient management, medication adherence, and actively collaborates with other members of the health care team. The Specialty Pharmacist supports URAC/ACHC Accreditation Standards and has the ability to utilize metrics in analyzing optimization of patient care and adherence rates. When applicable, the Specialty Pharmacist will participate in development of new programs, services, practices, and facilitate scholarly and professional development activities.

Responsibilities:

CORE Responsibilities

Intake—Oversees the patient intake process by receiving referrals, screening patient demographic information, ensuring accurate benefits investigation and determination of payor coverage for specialty drugs, and exploring opportunities for patient financial assistance for qualified candidates.

Clinical Management—Manages patient care by coordinating with an integrated team of health care providers, assessing clinical data, and optimizing therapy to ensure appropriateness and safety of medication use through evidence-based medicine principles. Promotes and monitors adherence and persistency.

Fulfillment—Coordinates the processing, distribution, and delivery of referrals while maintaining product integrity, managing inventory of specialty medications, following up with patients to ensure that they received medications, and billing for services rendered.

Outcomes—Defines, collects, integrates, analyzes, and reports data to promote and facilitate optimal treatment outcomes and evaluate the pharmacoeconomic impact of service offerings.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES

• Oversee day-to day operations in the pharmacy as they pertain to workflow, production quotas, deadlines and accuracy of prescription processing.

• Supports specialty clinic pharmacy processes as assigned.

• Ensure the pharmacy is compliant with all accreditation standards and local, state and federal rules and regulations regarding the practice of pharmacy.

• Support the Medication Access Coordinators to ensure accuracy of dispensing-related functions, adherence to delivery schedules, and utilization of safety programs.

• Assist in the performance management, orientation, and training of pharmacy personnel as needed.

• Screen all new medication orders for appropriate dose, drug interactions, allergies, and contradictions prior to dispensing medication.

• Provide verbal or written consultation and information on prescription medication for storage, side effects and drug interactions to healthcare professionals and patients.

• Obtain verbal and/or written prescription orders from prescribers and/or designee.

• Maintain clinical knowledge and skill level sufficient to render assistance to prescribers with regard to medication regimens and therapeutic options to ensure optimal medication therapy.

• Monitor patient compliance and over-usages or under-usage patterns, provide adherence counseling when necessary.

• Identify barriers to therapy and collaborate between customers and healthcare providers to achieve optimal outcome.

• Assist with patient management responsibilities such as start of care with nurse/physician, patient care plan development and revision, and multidisciplinary patient care conferences.

• Provide fulfillment process support by performing QY review as needed.

• Oversee customer billing for services rendered and financial information requirements.

• Support sales and marketing efforts in collaboration with other functional areas.

• Collaborate with pharmacy leadership in the development and implementation of clinical pharmacy services and ensure compliance with policies and procedures at UofL Hospital.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

Education / Accreditation / Licensure (required & preferred):

Graduated from an accredited College of Pharmacy.

Licensed or license eligible as a pharmacist in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Certified Specialty Pharmacy (CSP®) Board Certification by Specialty Pharmacy Certification Board (SPCB) (preferred) or Certification by Board of Pharmacy Specialties required within 3 years from date of hire. Current Basic Life Support certification or must obtain within 90 days from date of hire.

Current Immunization Delivery certification or must obtain within 90 days of hire.

Current Medication Therapy Management certification or must obtain within 90 days of hire.

Experience (required and preferred):

Post-Graduate Year 1 (PGY-1) Pharmacy Residency OR two years of applicable experience with Specialty medications, Specialty disease management programs, Oncology, REMS, and LDD programs.

Post-Graduate Year 2 (PGY-2) Pharmacy Residency, Ambulatory Care preferred.

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