Clinical/Consultant Pharmacist
Long Term Care
Primary Objective:
We are seeking a dedicated and knowledgeable long-term care clinical pharmacist to join our team. This role involves providing expert pharmaceutical care to residents in long-term care facilities, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards, optimizing medication therapy, collaborating with healthcare providers to improve patient outcomes as well as supporting our clinical MTM services in long term care.
Key Responsibilities:
- Conduct comprehensive medication regimen reviews for residents in long-term care settings.
- Identify and resolve drug-related problems, including adverse drug reactions, drug interactions, and therapeutic duplications.
- Provide recommendations to physicians, nurses, and facility staff to optimize pharmacotherapy.
- Ensure compliance with federal and state regulations, including CMS and state board of pharmacy requirements.
- Educate facility staff on medication-related topics and best practices.
- Maintain accurate documentation of clinical interventions and consultations.
- Participate in quality assurance and performance improvement initiatives.
- Support clinical initiatives in the long-term care space such as chronic care management, comprehensive medication reviews and other medication management services.
- Collaborate with pharmacy operations and clinical services to support our long-term care initiatives.
- Some travel is required, up to 10% of the time.
Knowledge, skills and abilities:
• Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy (required); Doctor of Pharmacy (preferred); Board Certified in Geriatric Pharmacy (preferred).
• Active pharmacist license in the state(s) of practice. Multi-state licensure preferred. Our territory includes: Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Iowa, South Dakota.
• Prior experience in long-term care or geriatric pharmacy preferred.
• Strong clinical knowledge and understanding of geriatric pharmacotherapy.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills. Excellent organizational and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and meet required deadlines with little oversight.
• Ability to travel to assigned facilities as needed. The exact territory of this position has not yet been defined.
• Strong time management skills and flexibility are essential.
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.
This position involves in-office work and may include long periods of sitting. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is also frequently required: to stand, talk and hear, use hands and fingers, handle, or operate objects, tools, or controls, and to reach with hands and arms.
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.
We offer competitive wages, medical, dental, vision, life, 401k, Employee Stock Ownership Plan, paid holidays and vacations, and a store discount for you and your family.
Thrifty White Pharmacy is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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Flexible work from home options available.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive
consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex,
national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other
characteristic protected by law.
Thrifty White Pharmacy is a pharmacy chain fully owned by our employees. We are committed to the communities we serve and believe that our services and products must exceed the expectations of our customers.
Being an industry leader in innovation, our employee owners have been able to develop and implement several programs and initiatives that allow our team to practice at the top of their license, making them an invaluable asset to our pharmacy operations.
As a dynamic organization, we have a variety of different practice sites and positions.
No experience is necessary for most of our Pharmacy Technician positions! As detailed further down this careers page, Thrifty White offers Pharmacy Technician-in-Training programs at no cost to the employee!
