Ambulatory Care Clinical Pharmacist

## Ambulatory Care Clinical Pharmacist Apply:
Bend, OR:
Full time:
Posted Today:
R1023241

Full-Time, Days  Pay range: $71.38 - $92.81    This position is eligible for a Relocation Bonus.
** ST. CHARLES HEALTH SYSTEM
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* TITLE:

** Ambulatory Care Clinical Pharmacist     
** REPORTS TO POSITION:
** Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Manager
** DEPARTMENT:
** Ambulatory Pharmacotherapy
** DATE LAST REVIEWED:
** May 2026
** OUR VISION:
** Creating America’s healthiest community, together
** OUR MISSION:
** In the spirit of love and compassion, better health, better care, better value
** OUR VALUES:
** Accountability, Caring and Teamwork
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* DEPARTMENT SUMMARY:

** The St. Charles Health System Pharmacy provides a broad range of hospital and outpatient pharmaceutical care services to deliver high quality, effective, safe, reliable, and affordable medication therapy for our patients.
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* POSITION OVERVIEW:

** The
** Ambulatory Care*
* ** Clinical Pharmacist
** provides expertise in a specialized healthcare team and for patients to assure optimal cost-effective drug therapy. This includes developing specific pharmacotherapeutic goals, selecting drug regimens and developing a monitoring plan to meet the individualized drug therapy needs of the patient. The Pharmacist is responsible for leading efforts in the prevention and reporting of medication errors and adverse drug reactions and works to continuously improve process and practice to enhance safety and efficacy of medication therapy.

This position does not directly manage other caregivers.
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* LOCATION:

** Pharmacists may be asked to work at multiple St. Charles Health System worksites at the request of leadership to fulfill short term, immediate staffing needs.
** ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES:
** Collaborates with health care providers to create, maintain, and utilize evidence based Collaborative Drug Therapy Management (CDTM) agreements to improve medication drug selection, monitoring, and patient adherence.

Prescribes and manages specialty and other medications upon referral from St. Charles Licensed Independent Providers (LIP) as defined in CDTM agreements to assure optimal cost-effective drug therapy.

Performs comprehensive medication and adherence management. Documents in the patient medical record and communicates with their referring LIP and the multidisciplinary team.

Coordinates the removal of barriers to needed medication therapy; including prior authorizations, benefits investigation, prescription renewal, and financial assistance.

Assists the multidisciplinary health care team with coordination of prescriptions, disease state education, lab ordering, and monitoring of patient response and adherence.

Collaborates with pharmacy caregivers to ensure accurate and timely medication dispensing, refills, and deliveries.

Monitors patient treatment (specialty and ancillary) medications for appropriateness, drug interactions, toxicities, and cost effectiveness based on current clinical and institutional guidelines as well as patient-specific criteria.

Educates patients and their families to ensure their understanding of the goals, administration schedules and side effects of treatment.

Participates in the training, education and mentoring of other pharmacists and technicians and precepting of pharmacy students and residents.

Maintains liaison relationships with medical and nursing staff; provides timely information pertaining to pharmaceuticals, state and federal regulations regarding drug controls, and Joint Commission Standards.

Provides supervision of assigned pharmacy technicians engaged in pharmacy practice. Ensures compliance with federal, state, and local laws and regulations and the maintenance of required records.

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