Remote, Part-time
The Clinical Pharmacist provides clinical pharmacy services to patients in order to optimize medication related healthcare outcomes. The services may include a broad spectrum of Medication Therapy Management (MTM) services including, but not limited to, Comprehensive Medication Reviews, Targeted Interventions, Adherence Monitoring Interventions, Cost-Effective Interventions, and Transitions of Care management.
Responsibilities
- Deliver MTM services, including but not limited to, Comprehensive Medication Reviews, Disease Specific Medication Reviews, and Targeted Interventions to assess appropriateness of all medications, identify barriers to adherence, optimize medication therapy and to improve clinical outcomes.
- Reviews patients’ medication profiles and applies evidence based medicine and national guidelines when creating recommendations to health care providers for optimizing the patients’ medication regimen.
- Assist with managing medication costs through cost-effective interventions which may include, but are not limited to, formulary or therapeutic interchanges, pill splitting opportunities, combination products. and assessing unnecessary and/or duplicate medication therapies.
- Efficiently assess prescribed medication therapy for unnecessary medications, need for additional medications, patient educational gaps, ineffective medications, inappropriate doses, adverse drug reactions, adherence concerns and opportunities for medication synchronization.
- Generate deliverables to include: Personal Medication List (PML) through comprehensive medication reconciliation, patient-specific Medication Action Plan (MAP) and written/ verbal communication and feedback to healthcare providers. Communicate professionally and discuss/document clinical recommendations/interventions to prescribers and interdisciplinary care teams.
- Serve as an advocate for and explain the benefits of MTM services to patients, family members and providers.
- Ensure patients and family members have a positive experience by providing a high level of customer service by always responding promptly, professionally, and politely.
- Follow up with patients and providers to check on progress toward meeting drug treatment goals.
- Serves as a drug information resource to Patients, Providers and other members of the healthcare team.
- Provide other clinical pharmacy services as directed by manager.
- Meet productivity and performance expectations set forth by manager.
Qualifications & Requirements
- High speed internet connection through cable broadband or fiber optic service provider
- B.S. degree in Pharmacy or Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm D.) from an accredited school of pharmacy required.
- 2+ years experience as a clinical pharmacist
- Medication Therapy Management experience, preferred
- Current and unrestricted pharmacist licensure your state
- Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills
- Effective communications skills, both written and verbal
- Speak and understand English
- Strong IT and troubleshooting experience
- Proficiency with office technology tools, to include MS Office 2000 or later (esp. Excel, and Word), and Google G-Suite
Physical Demands
- May sit, stand, stoop, bend, and walk intermittently during the day.
- Finger dexterity to operate office equipment required.
- May need to lift up to twenty-five (25) pounds on occasion.
- Specific vision abilities required by this role include close vision, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus.
- Visual acuity to see and read fine prints.
- Must be able to hear normal voice sounds.
- This role requires typical office-based physical activities: watching a computer monitor, use of a keyboard, occasionally repositioning light desk equipment, and speaking on a telephone for extended periods of time.
- The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- IT secure office environment that is fully compliant with HIPAA, ARRA/HITECH, Federal and State regulations.
- Work performed in an at home office setting.
CarepathRx provides equal employment opportunity to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetic information, or veteran status, or other legally protected classification in the state in which a person is seeking employment. Applicants encouraged to confidentially self-identify when applying. Local applicants are encouraged to apply. We maintain a drug-free work environment. Applicants must be eligible to work in this country.
I am a pharmacist, community pharmacy consultant, and medical writer with over 12 years of clinical practice experience in community, outpatient health system, long term care, and academic settings. I am also the founder of PharmCompliance.com, a website dedicated to the success of community pharmacy.
As a pharmacy project manager, I led the implementation of new service lines, assist with ensuring legal and third-party compliance for over 70 retail stores, lead quality improvement and medication safety initiatives, write policies, procedures, and best practices for all our retail sites, and help with optimizing revenue cycle and pharmacy profitability. I have been responsible for DMEPOS and vaccine accreditation through CMS, obtaining new licenses and permits, and implementing a prescription drug kiosk embedded in our physician offices.
As a medical writer, my work has been featured in GoodRx, Pharmacy Times, Drug Topics, Patient Care Online, and in peer-reviewed journals. I have also given presentations on a range of topics, from disease state pharmacotherapy for medical residents to updates on the CDC vaccine storage and handling guidelines for a medical-grade refrigerator and freezer manufacturer. I have written and presented continuing education for CEImpact, FreeCE, AchieveCE, Ascension Health, and the Florida Department of Health.
