Clinical Pharmacist Practitioner

Description

The clinical pharmacist practitioner is a licensed professional with knowledge and proficiency in pharmacy practice including pharmaceutics, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and pharmacotherapeutics. The pharmacist is responsible for interpreting and evaluating appropriateness of pharmacological therapy to ensure that patients receive optimal drug therapy.

The pharmacist is responsible for providing a full range of pharmaceutical service functions including, but not limited to:

• Select appropriate drug therapy based upon the pharmaceutical principles of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
• Complete patient-specific monitoring for efficacy, adverse effects, and clinical outcomes
• Communicate relevant findings and/or recommendations to other health care providers verbally and in writing
• Provide medication and device counseling to patients and caregivers
• Complete medical history and medication reconciliations

• Provide concise, applicable, comprehensive, and timely responses to requests for drug information
• Educate health care professionals, students, patients, and the public regarding rational drug therapy
• Maintain basic knowledge of pharmaceutics, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and pharmacotherapeutics in the area of practice

• Perform Medicare Annual Wellness Visits which will include, but is not limited to, medication reconciliation, laboratory reviews, medication appropriateness, immunizations required, preventative health screenings required, and address any questions that the patient may have about their care
• Contribute to quality improvement efforts and develop new initiatives, policies, and procedures
• Complete Chronic Care Management consults

• Establish and implement programs that help ensure cost-effective drug therapy and successful patient outcomes
• Manage continuous glucose monitor initiative
• Implement policies, practices, and procedures for clinical pharmacy services, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards
• Collaborate with Director of Pharmacy to ensure optimal allocation of 340b resources

• Education:
  
  Doctor of Pharmacy degree from an accredited School/College of Pharmacy
• Experience:
  
  post-graduate year one residency or equivalent experience in ambulatory care or rural health
• Licensure: current in-good-standing or eligibility for NC pharmacist license and clinical pharmacist practitioner license
• Other: NC driver’s license for between clinic driving as necessary

• Skill in exercising a high degree of initiative, judgment, discretion and decision-making to achieve the health center's mission.
• Skill in establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with employees, policy-making bodies, third-party payers, patients and the public.
• Skill in organizing work, delegating and achieving goals and objectives.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and empathy towards patients, as well as strong communication skills, critical thinking skills, the ability to handle stressful situations, the capacity to function independently and the ability to document meticulously.
• Must have excellent process improvement skills and ability to understand clinic functions and department interactions.
• Intermediate ability with Microsoft office with emphasis on Excel and Word

• Ability to identify trends and motivate workforce toward changes needed to adapt and remain competitive
• Ability to create and interpret reports from the practice management system.
• Ability to identify and implement opportunities for improvement and change.
• Ability to manage and supervise various positions and relate well to people from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds, as well as have a passion for working…