Specialty Pharmacist

Primary Location:

Ambulatory Care Building - UMC

Address:

550 South Jackson St.
Louisville, KY 40202


Shift:

Job Description Summary:

We are expanding into Specialty Pharmacy at UofL Hospital.

UofL Health is a fully integrated regional academic health system with five hospitals, four medical centers, nearly 200 physician practice locations, more than 700 providers, the Frazier Rehab Institute and Brown Cancer Center.
With more than 12,000 team members—physicians, surgeons, nurses, pharmacists and other highly skilled health care professionals—UofL Health is focused on one mission: delivering patient-centered care to each and every patient each and every day.

Job Description:

The Specialty Pharmacist provides high-touch pharmaceutical care to patients with chronic disease states and deals exclusively with medications and pharmaceuticals that are high in costs, require special handling, are subject to limited or restricted distribution, require ongoing assessment, treat rare disease, or require active monitoring of side effects. The Specialty Pharmacist has an increased focus on patient management, medication adherence, and actively collaborates with other members of the health care team. The Specialty Pharmacist supports URAC/ACHC Accreditation Standards and has the ability to utilize metrics in analyzing optimization of patient care and adherence rates. When applicable, the Specialty Pharmacist will participate in development of new programs, services, practices, and facilitate scholarly and professional development activities.

Responsibilities include

• Intake—Oversees the patient intake process by receiving referrals, screening patient demographic information, ensuring accurate benefits investigation and determination of payor coverage for specialty drugs, and exploring opportunities for patient financial assistance for qualified candidates.
• Clinical Management—Manages patient care by coordinating with an integrated team of health care providers, assessing clinical data, and optimizing therapy to ensure appropriateness and safety of medication use through evidence-based medicine principles. Promotes and monitors adherence and persistency.

Fulfillment—Coordinates the processing, distribution, and delivery of referrals while maintaining product integrity, managing inventory of specialty medications, following up with patients to ensure that they received medications, and billing for services rendered

Supports specialty pharmacy services and specialty clinic processes

• Oversees day-to day operations in the pharmacy as they pertain to workflow, production quotas, deadlines and accuracy of prescription processing
• Ensures the pharmacy is compliant with all accreditation standards and local, state and federal rules and regulations regarding the practice of pharmacy
• Supports the Medication Access Coordinators to ensure accuracy of dispensing-related functions, adherence to delivery schedules, and utilization of safety programs
• Assists in the performance management, orientation, and training of pharmacy personnel, as needed.
• Screens all new medication orders for appropriate dose, drug interactions, allergies, and contradictions prior to dispensing medication
• Provides verbal or written consultation and information on prescription medication for storage, side effects and drug interactions to healthcare professionals and patients
• Obtains verbal and/or written prescription orders from prescribers and/or designee
• Maintains clinical knowledge and skill level sufficient to render assistance to prescribers with regard to medication regimens and therapeutic options to ensure optimal medication therapy
• Monitors patient compliance and over-usages or under-usage patterns, provides adherence counseling, when necessary
• Identifies barriers to therapy and collaborates between customers and healthcare providers to achieve optimal outcome
• Assists with patient management responsibilities such as start of care with nurse/physician, patient care plan development and revision, and multidisciplinary patient care conferences
• Provides fulfillment process support by performing QY review, as needed
• Oversees customer billing for services rendered and financial information requirements
• Supports sales and marketing efforts in collaboration with other functional areas
• Collaborates with pharmacy leadership in the development and implementation of clinical pharmacy services and ensure compliance with policies and procedures at UofL Hospital
• Participates in on-call duties, as needed

Delivers comprehensive pharmaceutical care to patients

• Works collaboratively with other clinicians and health-care providers through multidisciplinary patient care clinics
• Review prescriptions for accuracy, appropriateness and efficacy
• Documents all pharmacy interventions in patient electronic medical record and integrated clinical decision support system
• Monitors drug therapy to evaluate appropriateness of use, dose, dosage form, regimen, route, therapeutic duplication, and drug interactions
• Provides pharmacokinetic consultations and other dosing recommendations, as required

Additional Job Description:

Education:

• Graduated from an ACPE accredited College of Pharmacy or equivalent (required)

Experience:

• Post-Graduate Year 1 (PGY-1) Pharmacy Residency or two (2) years of relevant work experience with specialty medications, specialty disease management programs, Oncology, REMS, and LDD programs (required)
• Post-Graduate Year 2 (PGY-2) Pharmacy Residency (preferred)

Licensure:

• Licensed or license eligible as a pharmacist in the Commonwealth of Kentucky (required)

Certification:

• Current Certified Specialty Pharmacy (CSP) Board Certification by Specialty Pharmacy Certification Board (SPCB) or Board of Pharmacy Specialties® Certification or within three (3) years from date of hire (required)
• Current certification in Basic Life Support or must obtain within 90 days from date of hire (required)
• Current certification in Immunization Delivery or must obtain within 90 days from date of hire (required)
• Current certification in Medication Therapy Management or must obtain within 90 days from date of hire (required)