Retail Pharmacist

Description

St. Croix Health is looking for a full-time (0.8 - 1.0 FTE) patient focused, clinical Pharmacist to join our team.  This position's primary location is Frederic, WI, but may float to other pharmacy locations (St. Croix Falls, WI and Balsam Lake, WI) as needed. 

The Retail Pharmacist is responsible for ensuring the safe and effective use of medications, providing high-quality pharmaceutical care, and promoting wellness to patients. The pharmacist works closely with other healthcare professionals to support optimal patient outcomes and contribute to the health and well-being of our community. The Retail Pharmacist is responsible for utilizing clinical knowledge to review and interpret prescription information as entered by the pharmacy technicians to ensure all prescriptions are accurate and complete. Prepare and dispense prescribed medications to patients in an efficient and timely manner, ensuring compliance with best practices for patient safety, policies, procedures, standards and all regulations. The Retail Pharmacist dispenses medications prescribed by healthcare providers and provides information to patients about their use. May advise healthcare providers on the selection, dosage, interactions, and side effects of medications. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Prescription Preparedness

• Interprets, prepares and dispenses drug orders per provider request according to established policies, procedures and protocols. 
• Review of prescription orders dispensed for accuracy, to ascertain the needed ingredients, and to evaluate their suitability validating they have the proper dosage.
• Plan, implement, or maintain procedures for mixing, packaging, or labeling pharmaceuticals, according to policy and legal requirements, to ensure quality, security and proper disposal.
• Assess the identity, strength and purity of medications.
• Collaborate with other healthcare professionals to plan, monitor, review or evaluate the quality or effectiveness of drug regimens, providing advice on drug applications or characteristics.
• Analyze prescribing trends to monitor patient compliance and to prevent excessive usage or harmful interactions.
• Provide specialized services to help patients manage conditions, such as diabetes, asthma, smoking cessations, or high blood pressure.

2. Patient Education

• Provide information and advice regarding drug interactions, side effects, dosage and proper medication storage to patients and customers.
• Advise customers on the selection of over-the-counter medications, medical equipment or healthcare supplies.
• Analyze prescribing trends to monitor patient compliance and to prevent excessive usage or harmful interactions.

3. Order review for concerns

• Reviews all orders for diagnosis, allergies, duplications and interactions.
• Review of patient profile for allergies and software review for duplication and drug interaction follow-up. 
• Review prescriptions to assure accuracy, to ascertain the needed ingredients and to evaluate their suitability. 

4. Medication Error Review

• Monitors for medication errors and adverse drug reactions and documents accordingly.
• Review allergies and adverse drug reactions in patient profiles and electronic medical record (EMR). 

5. Department Workflow

• Maintain daily workflow of the department, giving direction to the support staff.
• Listen to feedback from technicians. 

6. Enforces Pharmacy Laws

• Complies with all pharmacy laws and standards of practice.
• Review compliance with St. Croix Health’s Controlled Substance policies and standard workflows.
• Investigate and follow St. Croix Health’s policies in relation to all narcotic discrepancies.
• Review of audit reports.

Requirements

 Education & Licensure: 

• Graduate of an American Council of Pharmaceutical education (ACPE) accredited School of Pharmacy with a Pharmacy degree
• Current and valid Wisconsin Pharmacist License
• BLS certification required (through American Heart Association or American Red Cross BLS course)

Experience:

• Prior Pharmacist experience preferred

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Excellent communication (verbal and written) and listening skills
• Demonstrated ability to work independently with little direction and manage multiple demands and priorities
• Able to handle frequent interruptions and adapt to changes in workload and work schedule
• Able to set priorities, make critical decisions and respond quickly to requests
• Fosters a team environment
• Able to meet the pharmaceutical needs of all patient age groups
• Self-directed and highly engaged, but also able to work well in a team
• Ability to solve problems and encourage others in collaborative problem solving
• Able to work cooperatively and effectively with providers, staff, and patients

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Maintain daily workflow of the department, giving direction to support staff. 

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
• Prolonged periods of standing, bending, and reaching
• Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds at times

St. Croix Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer.We will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process.If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact us at [email protected] or 800-828-3627.

St. Croix Health has been a healing force in the St. Croix Valley for over 103 years. We are a purpose-driven organization with a dedicated team committed to serving our patients and communities throughout the St. Croix Valley. This commitment is rooted in our mission, vision and values. 

Mission:  We help people live healthier, happier, and longer lives.              

Vision:  To transform from quality sick care to quality well care that is sustainable and affordable. 

Values:  People Centered, Trust, Innovation, and Growth. 

Here at St. Croix Health we offer our employees with a robust benefits package that includes: 

• Health, vision and dental insurance
• 403b retirement program with employer match
• Paid time off
• Short-term disability, long-term disability and life insurance options
• Education reimbursement
• Employee assistance program (EAP)
• Wellbeing incentive program
• Free parking
• Employee prescription discount program

St. Croix Health is a not-for-profit healthcare system located in St. Croix Falls, WI dedicated to helping people live healthier, happier, and longer lives. St. Croix Health offers the services of 80+ providers and 20 specialties with five community clinics in Minnesota and Wisconsin all supported by a critical access hospital on the main campus in St. Croix Falls, just an hour northeast of Minneapolis/St. Paul. Nestled in the bluffs of the St. Croix River Valley, St. Croix Falls is the ideal place to work, live and play.