Float Staff Pharmacist

Float Staff Pharmacist- FT
St. Cloud, MN[MN ND Map St Cloud Based.pdf]
Primary Objective
To provide pharmacy dispensing, consultation, and clinical services to patients. The Float Staff Pharmacist is based from an assigned hub pharmacy and travels to support pharmacies generally located within one to two hours of the hub. This role provides reliable pharmacist coverage, adapts to the operational needs of each assigned location, and supports consistent company standards for patient care, service, compliance, workflow, and clinical execution. Scheduling is coordinated centrally across the market to align pharmacist resources with coverage needs.

Responsibilities
·         Provides pharmacist coverage at the hub pharmacy and other assigned pharmacies within the designated market, generally within one to two hours of the hub pharmacy.
·         Works a centrally managed market schedule that may vary by pharmacy location, shift, day of the week, and business need. Maintains flexibility to support planned coverage, open shifts, vacations, leaves, training, and other staffing needs.
·         Reports to assigned locations on time and prepared to support the pharmacy team, patient needs, and daily operating priorities.
·         Quickly adapts to the workflow, patient population, staffing model, and operational needs of each assigned pharmacy while consistently following company standards.
·         Communicates proactively with the central scheduler, hub Pharmacy Manager, assigned store leadership, and market support leaders regarding availability, schedule changes, coverage concerns, and operational needs.
·        Provides a pharmacy atmosphere and excellent customer service to develop and maintain patient and employee loyalty.
·        Welcomes partnership of store management to leverage tools, reports, and processes to exceed sales goals.
·        Leads team to meet and exceed financial goals including payroll, sales, and clinical service expectations.
·        Leads team by modeling, coaching, and maintaining high standards in patient service.
·        Leverages Pharmacy Manger, Regional Support Pharmacy Manager, Regional Support Pharmacist, and Senior Regional Support Pharmacist for personal and team development.
·        Supports and completes all Pharmaceutical Care responsibilities including but not limited to drug administration, point-of-care testing, patient consultation and clinical services.
·        Ensures full completion of all participating clinical services.
·        Deliver MTM services, including but not limited to, Comprehensive Medication Reviews (CMR), Targeted Medication Reviews (TMR), Disease State Management, and to assess appropriateness of all medications, to optimize medication therapy and to improve clinical outcomes.
·        Utilize the Joint Commission of Pharmacy Practioners (JCPP) Pharmacists’ Patient Care process to consistently deliver patient care and address medication related needs.
·        Determine appropriate interventions to resolve medication therapy problems, achieve goals of therapy and prevent new medication therapy problems.
·        Use evidence-based practices and current clinical guidelines to formulate recommendations and treatment plans.
·        Individualize patient care by evaluating indication, efficacy, safety and adherence for each patient regimen.
·        Assist with managing medication costs through cost-effective interventions which may include but are not limited to formulary and therapeutic interchanges and assessing unnecessary and/or duplicate medication therapies.
·        Efficiently assess prescribed medication therapy for unnecessary medications, need for additional medications, ineffective medications, inappropriate doses, adverse drug reactions, and adherence concerns.
·        Evaluate and document clinical responses to therapy including adverse reactions and efficacy.
·        Conduct patient-centered adherence services to help patients identify barriers with adherence and develop solutions to overcome those barriers.
·        Collaborate with prescribers, interdisciplinary care teams, patients and/or caregivers to identify and develop patient-specific disease state therapy goals.
·        Communicate professionally and discuss/document clinical recommendations to prescribers and interdisciplinary care teams.
·        Provide patient-centered education on chronic disease states, including medications used for prevention and treatment.
·        Provides professional services to customers by presenting a positive image of the pharmacy and store while leading by example.
·        Dispenses prescriptions accurately and according to all laws and policies.
·        Organizes and directs workflow.
·        Dispenses appropriate brands and preferred generics to ensure coverage by third-party providers, utilizing generic drugs wherever possible.
·        Ensures pharmacy staff adjudicates prescriptions with specific directions and correct days-supply to avoid audit risk and resolves all rejected claims prior to dispensing.
·        Consults with patients to professionally provide accurate information related to their prescriptions and health.
·        Manages pharmacy according to state, federal and company regulations to ensure compliance.
·        Engages customers through quality interactions and relationship-building.
·        Maintains clean, neat, and well organized pharmacy.
·        Follows all company policies for purchasing drug inventory.
·        Follows all company polices relating to loss prevention and security procedures.
·        Structures and organizes workflow and systems for efficient prescription filling, patient counseling, and providing clinical services.
·        Provides best-in-class service in all areas including: skilled professional pharmaceutical consulting, disease state management, medication therapy management, and administration of immunizations as allowed.
·        Ensures appropriate, reliable and consistent patient care through the distribution, control and delivery of pharmaceuticals, according to professional standards and state and federal law.
·        Identifies optimal programs to address patient needs and executes that solution to assure retention of patient.
·        Fully implements all company programs such as Ready Refill and Medication Synchronization.
·        Develops and follows up on long term care (LTC) business through immediate communication and attention to the needs of the nursing homes, group homes and assisted living residences.
·        Identifies LTC business and communicates opportunities with Marketers.
·        Communicates effectively with all LTC Marketers to ensure guidelines are followed and expectations are clear.
·        Fosters development of the pharmacy business.
·        Provides and promotes immunizations in store and with local employers.
·        Participates in local health fairs and identifies opportunities to serve as an information resource for the community.
·        All other duties as assigned
 
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
·         Graduation from an accredited School of Pharmacy with a B.S. or Pharm. D. in Pharmacy.
·         Maintains a license in good standing from the state and all health care programs.
·         Willing to obtain additional state licensure.
·         Current Immunization Certification.
·         Experience as a pharmacist is preferred.
·         Knowledge of, and ability to appropriately and correctly apply the techniques, methods, procedures, principles and practices of the pharmacy profession and company policies.
·         Ability to accurately review drug therapy prescribed for each patient. Has knowledge of the clinical effects of drugs.
·         Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships and effective communications with physicians, other medical professionals or technicians, staff and customers.
·         Ability to maintain accurate records and fill prescriptions accurately.
·         Ability to manage the pharmacy to achieve company's financial and service goals.
·         Ability to handle stressful situations and deal successfully with difficult customers and employees.
·         Ability to maintain effective, positive working relationships with employees and supervisors.
·         Ability to understand and carry out written and oral instructions. Ability to communicate effectively in English.
·         Good organizational and multitasking skills. Be self-directed with good time management skills.
·         Skill in operation of the following tools and equipment; cash register, computer terminal, credit card processing equipment, phone, calculator, e-sig, e-prescribing, and pseudo records in TWRx.
·         Reliability in reporting for work on time and when scheduled.
 
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representable of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential job functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The employee is required to walk, and to use hands to finger, handle, or operate objects, tools, or controls; and to reach with hands and arms. The job requires extended periods of standing. 
The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 40 pounds. (Review the “Safe Lifting Techniques” policy). Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Thrifty White Pharmacy is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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