Community Pharmacist- Retail Pharmacy

JOB SUMMARY:

The Community Pharmacist works collaboratively with members of the pharmacotherapy department to improve patient health in MAHEC Community pharmacies by providing pharmacy services at Biltmore and Enka/Candler pharmacy locations. Responsibilities include providing direct patient care services related to medication access, vaccine administration, and may include implementation support of new pharmacy services at the Biltmore and Enka/Candler locations.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provides community and retail pharmacy services to patients at Biltmore and Enka/Candler.
• Responsible for vaccine administration  and other clinical pharmacy services delivered in a community pharmacy setting.
• Responsible for patient care that supports meeting value based care metrics in the pharmacy
• Provide age specific pharmaceutical care services.
  • Nutritional support.
  • Drug therapy monitoring including allergies, drug/drug interactions, drug/food interactions, and, ADR reporting (including database maintenance and intervention documentation).
  • Drug and dosage form selection and suggestion.
  • Drug dosage and pharmacokinetic calculations.
  • Provision of drug information.
• Provide education and training for Pharmacy staff and students, Nursing staff and students, Medical staff and students, and patients and families.
• Maintains strong working relationships with Pharmacy staff to maintain high morale and promotion of the organization.

This role description is a general description of the essential job functions.  It is not intended to describe all the duties the Community Pharmacist may perform.

KEY COMPETENCIES:

• Communication Skills

Effectively and respectably communicate with other individuals, whether it be a colleague, patient, or patient’s family member and appropriately enumerate information in a manner easily understood by all parties. We do this to foster a culture of understanding between all parties, especially in complex and difficult situations, to ultimately provide the best care possible to our patients and their families.

• Decision Making

Ability to make the most appropriate decision in a given situation and then taking the next steps to ensure appropriate and timely completion. This requires conflict resolution skills, critical thinking skills, confidence in your ability to make the right decision in most situations. This also includes ability to prioritize your workday appropriately to ensure the most important tasks are completed on time.

• HealthCare Knowledge

Having the drive to keep yourself abreast and up to date on the new breakthroughs in your area of expertise and communicating them to the rest of the team, as appropriate.  This also includes keeping up with your licensure and yearly training requirements within your area expertise along with MAHEC’s organizational training. Finally, the ability to apply the depth of knowledge maintained and gained through this process in real life scenarios as appropriate.

• Interpersonal Skills

Showing the ability to meet difficult situations with grace, professionalism, and understanding. Within your area of expertise, showing respect and showing empathy where appropriate with your colleagues, patients, and their family at all times, even when its most difficult to do so. This is done, in part, by effective listening, being your authentic self, showing responsibility and dependability, and being patient with others.

• Organizational Values

Adherence to MAHEC’s founding principles and incorporating them every day. This includes, among others, having integrity and accountability, reverence for other cultures and equitable practices, ability to manage change, and displaying a clear understanding of organizational dynamics. Doing these things creates a culture where people want to do the best for each other and gives personal ownership towards the goal of helping people in their time of need.

• Problem Solving

Having an analytical mind and ability to work autonomously to solve complex problems that may arise. The wherewithal to think logically through a difficult problem and come to an appropriate resolution for a given issue. This helps to drive continuous improvement by thinking through where we can improve in a novel way. Measures success by understanding where we are currently and where we want to go and then applying those new ideas to affect positive change.

SPECIFIED SKILLS

• COMPUTER
  • Excellent skills in Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and database applications required.
• FORE