About Our Company

We’re a physician-led, patient-centric network committed to simplifying health care and bringing a more connected kind of care.

Our primary, multispecialty, and urgent care providers serve millions of patients in traditional practices, patients' homes and virtually through VillageMD and our operating companies Village Medical, Village Medical at Home, Summit Health, CityMD, and Starling Physicians.

When you join our team, you become part of a compassionate community of people who work hard every day to make health care better for all. We are innovating value-based care and leveraging integrated applications, population insights and staffing expertise to ensure all patients have access to high-quality, connected care services that provide better outcomes at a reduced total cost of care.

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Job Description

Position Summary: The Specialty Oncology Pharmacist will provide ambulatory pharmaceutical care services using approved protocols in collaboration with other health professionals, including managing patient drug therapy and providing patient education while promoting high quality, evidence-based, cost-effective pharmaceutical care. Full pharmacotherapy knowledge, independent thinking and decision-making is required.  Performs these duties in the clinical areas assigned.

Schedule: Mon-Fri (8am - 4:30pm)

Essential Job functions:

• Provides Medication Therapy Management (MTM) services under an approved NJ State Board of Pharmacy Collaborative Practice Agreement with primary care providers in sites as assigned.
• Promotes rational, evidence based and cost-effective outpatient drug therapy through close participation in the drug therapy decision-making process with the care team.
• Under Collaborative Practice protocols, initiates, adjusts, monitors, and recommends changes in drug therapy based on information obtained through patient interviews, objective monitoring parameters, review of drug profiles and the patient medical record.
• Optimizes medication regimens and clinical outcomes in patients with diabetes, hypertension, heart failure, dyslipidemia, arrhythmias, angina, thromboembolism, asthma, COPD, renal disease, obesity, nicotine dependence, and other high-risk conditions as required.
• Optimizes utilization of cost saving generic alternatives across all patient encounters.
• Optimizes safe medication use by reducing utilization of inappropriate medications based on patient-specific factors.
• Optimizes patient medication adherence through counseling, and application of motivational interview skills.
• Designs, implements, and monitors therapeutic drug plans to achieve improved outcomes through both direct and telephonic interactions with patients and providers in assigned areas.
• Knowledge of all medications applicable to an outpatient setting including oral, topical, injectable, and infused medications.
• Reviews patient medication regimens for clinical effectiveness, drug selection, dosing, contraindications, side effects, and potential drug interactions as required.
• Conducts patient medication history inquiries and drug information requests upon referral from physicians and other medical personnel.
• Analyzes and employs a systematic, efficient, and thorough procedure for retrieving drug information.
• Formulates response and follows up consistently on drug information recommendations and assesses effectiveness.
• Collaborates with other health care professionals to plan, monitor, review, or evaluate the quality or effectiveness of drugs or drug regimens, providing advice on drug applications or characteristics.
• Communicates and documents findings with prescribers and provides appropriate alternatives to current treatment plans as needed in the EHR.
• Identifies, resolves, and prevents potential and actual medication-related problems including: untreated indications, improper drug selection, sub-therapeutic dosage, overdose, failure to receive medication, adverse drug rea