Clinical Pharmacist Senior - Heart Transplant

Overview

Your job is more than a job. This a specialist position. The Clinical Pharmacist Senior is responsible for working with physicians, care managers, and other clinical staff, as part of a medical care team focusing on patient outcomes, while maintaining cost. The Clinical Pharmacist Senior provides patients and providers with therapeutic assessments and selected disease management, for assigned practices, working towards improving patient and practice outcomes.

The Clinical Pharmacist Senior also performs other duties consistent with the job classification as required.

• Directs and initiates development, implementation and maintenance of clinical pharmacy services.
• Provides clinical consultation to the Medical Staff and other health care providers within the appropriate team or unit(s); suggests appropriate cost-effective therapeutic alternatives as needed.
• Communicates and documents all activities/interventions (e.g., medication order changes/clarifications with the prescriber, pharmacokinetic dosing/monitoring, adverse drug reactions and errors).
• Fosters teamwork and takes responsibility to ensure delivery of high-quality patient care.
• Performs staff duties as needed.
• Collaborates with all health care providers to ensure timely resolution of concerns and questions; provides ongoing education and timely drug information to physicians, nursing, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals by developing educational materials and competencies and providing in-services as needed.
• Facilitates the development and implementation of treatment guidelines, pathways, protocols, formulary changes, medication use evaluations, and other drug information reports as approved by the appropriate committee(s).
• Participates on clinical committees including the pharmacy and therapeutics committee and other appointed committees; acts as a liaison to other healthcare practitioners and maintains awareness of regulatory standards and documentation in the medical record, JCAHO/CMS standards, and State Board of Pharmacy requirements.
• Supports Specialty Pharmacy accreditation and ensures compliance with ACHC and URAC Specialty Pharmacy Accreditation Standards; participates in audits and quality improvement activities.
• Leads and supports prior authorization navigation; collaborates with providers, payers and patient access teams; maintains current knowledge of payer policies and formulary restrictions.
• Ensures 340B prescriptions align with 340B patient definition, eligible providers and covered entity sites; partners with 340b operations team and documents clinical workflows that impact 340B compliance outcomes.

• Combination of appropriate education and work experience is required:
• Pharm.
  
  D. Degree with >4 to 5 years of experience in an inpatient hospital or clinical pharmacy setting OR
• Completion of a PGY-1 Pharmacy Practice Residency with a PGY-2 Residency preferred in a specialty area

• Currently licensed or registered to practice pharmacy in Louisiana.
• Board Certification in applicable specialty area strongly preferred.

Variable Hours (United States of America)

LCMC Health is a community. Our people make health happen. While our NOLA roots run deep, our branches are the vessels that carry our mission of bringing the best possible care to every person and parish in Louisiana and beyond and put a little more heart and soul into healthcare along the way. Celebrating authenticity, originality, equity, inclusion and a little “come on in” attitude is the foundation of LCMC Health’s culture of everyday extraordinary.

• Deliver healthcare with heart.
• Give people a reason to smile.
• Put a little love in your work.
• Be honest and real, but with compassion.
• Bring some lagniappe into everything you do.
• Forget one-size-fits-all, think one-of-a-kind care.
• See opportunities, not problems – it’s all about perspective.
• Cheerlead ideas, differences, and each other.
• Love what makes you, you - because we do

LCMC Health is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without…