Clinical Pharmacist

Clinical Pharmacist Job Description

Northwest Medical Homes is a leading primary care clinic committed to providing exceptional patient care and a supportive work environment for our staff. We are dedicated to fostering a compassionate and professional atmosphere, ensuring each patient feels valued and well-cared for.

Responsibilities/Scope of practice include:

• Provide evidence-based pharmacotherapy recommendations and education
• Identify, prevent and resolve drug therapy problems, analyzing patient medication regimens assessing utilization of first line medications, monitoring for proper dosages, recommending therapy/dose changes when appropriate and determining formulary/cost implications to patients. Counsel patients on their medication regimen.
• Ordering, interpreting and monitoring of laboratory tests
• Manage adverse reactions and avoid drug-induced and/or drug-exacerbated conditions
• Develop and monitor medication care plans and communicate the plan to the patient and interdisciplinary team.
• Document the number of identified drug therapy problems and clinical outcomes for problems.
• Provide consultation to the clinic physicians, other providers and other team members to assist in the individual care of the patients.

Retrospective Medication Utilization Review

• Work in collaboration with Third-Party or government payers to decrease cost of care and improve outcomes.
• Assess medication use patterns for medication-related problems or optimization or cost effectiveness opportunities, compliance of medication fills, assess therapeutic duplications due to multiple providers/insurance companies, and make recommendations based on findings.

Billing for pharmacy services

• Patient Medication Optimization and education through completion of Annual Wellness Visits, Chronic Care Management, Co-Consults (Incident-to billing) and Transitions of Care.
• Utilize Outcomes MTM to provide Comprehensive Medication Reviews (CMR) and follow up on Targeted Intervention Program (TIPs).
• Document the number of office visits, consultations and clinical outcomes of recommendations.

Champion Quality Improvement

• Leads and directs process and overall quality improvement activities that produce better patient care and more efficient operations.
• Analyze quality improvement metrics, help devise plans to improve Medicaid/Medicare and Commercial plan outcomes.
• Collect, record, and interpret data to implement a strategy in collaboration with the administrative and clinical leaders of the clinic or company.
• Tracks and presents results of improvement efforts and ongoing measures of clinical processes to management.

Job Requirements: Graduate of an accredited College of Pharmacy with a Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree. Completion of an accredited PGY1 Residency. Completion of a PGY2 Ambulatory Care Residency preferred. License or eligible to practice pharmacy in the State of Oregon. Must be Board Certified within 1 year of hire, BCACP preferred. Demonstrated expertise in practicing as an ambulatory care pharmacist preferred. Expertise based on experience in conducting assessments of patient's medications, educating patients, documenting patient notes and care plans and consultations in an electronic medical record. Precepting pharmacy students and residents. Ability to communicate effectively, work collaboratively with others, organize time well, solve problems, and work independently with minimal supervision.

Schedule:

Four 8-hour days of direct patient care, 1 day per week administration time from home.

Salary:

145K annually ($87/hour) bonus potential

Salary : $140,000 - $145,000