Clinical Pharmacist- Primary Care

Description

Within MaineHealth's ambulatory pharmacy program, the clinical pharmacist will be a part of our growing primary care pharmacy team. In this role, the pharmacist will help provide high quality patient care and education. Pharmacists will enter into a collaborative practice agreement with health system providers to provide optimal medication management and promote health, wellness and disease prevention.

Some core functions include:

• Works collaboratively with all healthcare professionals to provide safe and cost-effective patient care
• Communicates directly with patients and their families on all aspects related to medication therapy promoting high levels of knowledge, engagement, and adherence.
• Ensure appropriate and optimized medication therapy for patients with chronic disease including diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidemia.
• Provides education to other healthcare professionals including precepting trainees to enhance clinical competency on topics related to medication therapy.
• Partners with other healthcare professionals to develop evidence-based clinical pathways.
• Generates and analyzes process and outcome measures for use in assessing medication related patient outcomes.
• Demonstrates ongoing professional development including meeting continuing education requirements, keeping abreast of current professional literature and how it relates to clinical, financial and safety outcomes.

Summary:

The Clinical Pharmacist role reviews medication orders for safe and effective medication use; collaborates with physicians and other health care personnel to achieve optimal patient outcomes; and formulates recommendations based on current literature and evidence-based practice.

Required Minimum Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs)

1. Education: The Clinical Pharmacist role reviews medication orders for safe and effective medication use; collaborates with physicians and other health care personnel to achieve optimal patient outcomes; and formulates recommendations based on current literature and evidence-based practice. 2. License/Certifications: Current applicable state(s) license with Board of Pharmacy required. 3. Experience: Previous pharmacist experience preferred. 4. Additional Skills/Requirements Required: N/A 5. Additional Skills/Requirements Preferred: N/A