What are the responsibilities and job description for the Pharmacist position at Fourth Street Clinic?
Position Summary
The pharmacist is a vital healthcare team member responsible for providing pharmaceutical care to patients in a community healthcare setting. This role focuses on patient-centered care, medication therapy management, vaccine administration, and health education, ensuring safe, effective, and affordable medication use.
Key Responsibilities
Medication Dispensing:
- Accurately process, verify, and dispense prescriptions, adhering to all federal and state laws and regulations.
- Provide comprehensive counseling to patients on medication use, potential side effects, and drug interactions.
- Adjucate pharmacy claims and submit prior authorizations to payors.
- Maintain accurate documentation, including prescription records, patient profiles, and clinic interventions.
- Interact with patients fairly, accurately, impartially, and culturally sensitively to provide excellent customer service.
- Problem-solve to remove barriers between patients and their prescriptions.
Collaboration:
- Serve as a resource for other healthcare professionals regarding medication-related questions through integrated care.
- Foster a supportive environment through clear communication, encouraging teamwork, constructive feedback, and leading by example with empathy and respect.
Inventory Management:
- Maintain inventory through acquisition, returns, and monitoring.
- Ensure pharmacy financial viability through 340B best practices.
Clinical Services:
- Perform medication therapy management (MTM) and evaluate treatment plans to optimize outcomes.
- Vaccine administration through providing education, assessing patient needs, ensuring proper storage/handling, managing adverse events, and maintaining accurate documentation.
- Provide all the above clinical services at satellite and outreach locations.
Qualifications
- Active and unrestricted Pharmacist License in the State of Utah.
- Certified to immunize.
- You may be required to use a personal vehicle for transportation.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Able to work independently as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Strong organizational and multitasking skills.
- Experience with electronic health records (EHR) systems, such as EPIC.
- Experience with Microsoft Office Suite and general computer proficiency.
- Experience in working with underserved populations or in public health settings.
- Accept and honor a diverse patient population.
- Contribute to an innovative and supportive work culture.
- Able to lift 25 pounds.
- Ability to speak Spanish is preferred but not required.
Salary : $135,000 - $145,000