Ambulatory Clinical Pharmacist

Role Overview

• Provide integrated support to patients and physicians by providing a hands-on approach to improve the quality of patient care.
• Help advance quality pharmacotherapy care by actively assuring the provision of safe, efficacious, and cost-effective drug therapy.
• Collaborate closely with the hybrid ACP team to maximize full suite of therapy management (TM) clinical services within supported clinics.
• Perform in-person and/or virtual/phone assessments on disease state management and drug therapy education stratified based on medication risk level and approved clinic protocol.
• Focus to identify, resolve, and prevent medication-related problems.
• Offer additional services to overcome identified barriers to medication compliance and any other obstacle related to adherence.
• Monitor and evaluate medication regimens to ensure clinical criteria are met, including therapeutic goals, adverse effects, and drug interactions.
• Identify opportunities for drug therapy optimization and provide recommendations for medication cost savings initiatives when applicable.
• Participate in quality improvement initiatives by actively participating in clinical outcome studies, REMs compliance/reporting, and ACP-related process improvement projects.
• Optimize resources and workflows with supporting roles handling complex prior authorizations/appeals by providing clinical justification for medication approval, including supporting literature and rationale.
• Collaborate with healthcare providers, including assigned clinic physicians, specialists, and onsite clinic pharmacists, to ensure seamless medication management and coordination of care.

Requirements

• Applicant must hold a Doctor of Pharmacy degree (PharmD) from an accredited school of pharmacy
• Must be a licensed pharmacist in CO.
• And meet any one of the following:
• Possess certification in a relevant field of practice
• Completed a postgraduate residency through an accredited postgraduate institution where at least 50% of the experience included the provision of direct patient care services with interdisciplinary teams
• Have provided clinical services to patients for at least one year under a collaborative practice agreement or protocol with a physician, advanced practice pharmacist, pharmacist practicing collaborative drug therapy management, hospital pharmacy practice or health system
• Applicant must complete the required continuing education requirements to maintain CO state Pharmacist license if selected for position
• Ability to analyze information, exercise good judgment, possess strong verbal communication skills, have deep knowledge of pharmacology developments and FDA health regulations. Ability to manage processes, exhibit strong technical and clinical skills, maintain constant focus on legal compliance, while being highly productive with a focus on quality and details. Strong clinical knowledge and validated expertise with focus on disease state management and treatment guidelines.