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Exemption Status:

Exempt

Hiring Range:

$96,220.80 - $173,180.80

Please note that the final offer may vary within this range based on a candidate’s experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity considerations.

Schedule Details:

Monday through Friday

Scheduled Hours:

830a-5p, 32hrs

Shift:

1 - Day Shift, 8 Hours (United States of America)

Hours:

32

Cost Center:

10020 - 3834 ATRX Pharmacy

This position may have a signing bonus available a member of the Recruitment Team will confirm eligibility during the interview process.

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The Advanced Therapeutics clinical pharmacist provides patient centered clinical pharmacy services, including but not limited to comprehensive medication reviews, adherence monitoring interventions, and targeted medication reviews, that seek to optimize clinical, economic, and patient outcomes. The Advanced Therapeutics clinical pharmacist designs and implements targeted medication and disease management programs. Advanced Therapeutics clinical pharmacists are responsible for improving the patient’s experience, safety, and achieving positive clinical and financial outcomes.  This position is responsible to an immediate supervisor/manager.

Major Responsibilities: 

The following key performance areas (Clinical, Operations/Distribution, Financial, Safety and Regulatory, Research and Education) are performed by the clinical pharmacist:

Clinical Performance
Provides medication management services in a collaborative manner that consist of the following:

• Documents clinical interventions and activities in a timely manner.  Documentation may include progress notes in the EHR, annual comprehensive medication reviews with written summaries in the CMS’s standardized format, and patient specific documents, i.e., medication-related actions plans and personal medication records.
• Maintains accurate and proper patient medication profiles, monitoring to ensure the proper choice of medication, dosage form, strength, length of therapy and interaction potential of the prescribed medication.
• May work under Collaborative Practice and protocols as authorized by providers.

• Supervise work of pharmacy technicians involved with MTM and transitions of care.

Operations/Distribution Performance

• Ensures the timely and accurate dispensing of medications from the pharmacy area.
• Ensures proper technique and accurate preparation of all pharmaceutical products, including oral, non-sterile and sterile compounding, chemotherapeutic, hazardous, and investigational agents.
• Responsible for the accurate filling and dispensing of medications from the pharmacy area.
• Cross-covers in a variety of practice areas within the pharmacy as requested by supervisor.
• Ensures regulatory compliance of controlled substance distribution and monitoring.
• Supervise work of pharmacy technicians.
• Provide feedback to maintain and optimize pharmacy technology.

Financial Performance

• Promotes the use of formulary drugs by converting non-formulary orders to formulary drugs when possible according to P&T protocol.  Coordinates procurement of non-formulary drugs when necessary.
• Conducts targeted drug program and drug usage evaluations as needed and reports results to Department Managers/ Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee.
• Identifies and acts upon cost avoidance in drug therapy by promoting cost effective regimens, drugs, and by reducing waste.
• Facilitates cost saving programs such as IV to PO and therapeutic substitution.
• Manages medication inventory, expiring products, and r