Clinical Pharmacist/PIC

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Mission

At Biologics by McKesson, our mission is to simplify access to medication and deliver personalized care that helps patients achieve the best-possible outcomes — one patient, one partner, one therapy at time. https://biologics.mckesson.com/

Purpose

The primary responsibility of the Pharmacist in Charge, Cell and Gene and other specialties i.e.. oncology, rare/orphaned... Pharmacy is to provide leadership and oversight for all daily operations of their pharmacy location, including oversight of pharmacy staff, clinical support to patients, and ensuring that all prescriptions are dispensed in accordance with state, federal and board of pharmacy laws.  This role also has the responsibility for managing inventory, fulfillment, and distribution activities at their pharmacy location. This includes the proactive monitoring of inventory and clinical supplies to ensure adequate supplies of medications are on-hand while meeting budgetary parameters.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership

• Instill a culture of going above and beyond to exceed the patient, provider and client expectations.

• Encourage and promote a collaborative environment to better serve each other

• Responsible for all prescriptions dispensed by the pharmacy, including ensuring appropriate turnaround times and start dates are met.

• Has day to day oversight of all members of the patient care team through evaluation of work output, assignment of duties, communication, and teamwork.

• Collaborates with Biologics by McKesson operations leadership and provides coaching, mentoring, professional development, performance management and ongoing evaluation of onsite team members to promote professional growth opportunities

• Ensures that all patient care team members provide services in compliance with board of pharmacy rules and regulations, board of nursing rules and regulations, and federal drug laws.

• Responsible for oversight of clinical activities conducted within their pharmacy, including initial patient counseling, obtaining patient medication profiles, adverse event monitoring, follow up and reporting, compliance monitoring and refills, and provision of drug information to prescribers, patients and other clients.

• Has periodic consultation with practitioners in the field

Clinical

• Conducts a comprehensive clinical review of pharmacotherapy for each patient including drug utilization, counseling, compliance, drug interaction screening, side effect profiling and drug administration support.

• Documents results of pharmacotherapy review in patient chart.

• Counsels patients on new drug therapy in accordance with clinical management models

• Completes REMS training and follows program SOPs accordingly

• Coordinates patient care with the referring clinician, including but not limited to, social, psychological and physical needs that warrant customized services by Biologics, Inc.  (i.e. pre-filled syringes, color coded labeling for medication identification, etc.)

• Serves as a Liaison between patients, caregivers, home health agency nurses, hospice nurses, and the prescribing physician/clinician for orders related to the services provided by Biologics, Inc.

• Provides subcutaneous teaching support for patients and caregivers. If necessary, coordinates adequate nursing services with the prescribing clinician

• Provides on-call coverage on a scheduled basis

• Processes prescriptions accurately and timely

• Reviews medication orders for clinical appropriateness

• Verifies the discontinuation of service for each patient by assigning the appropriate therapy outcome and deactivates the patient’s chart, prescriptions and software profile as appropriate

• Implements clinical management models for products and disease states

• Primary intake for all new team referrals initiated by telephone

• Committed to “outrageous customer service” as defined by Biologics’ internal policies

• Understands t