Clinical Pharmacist (FT) - West Long Branch, NJ - RWJBarnabas Health
West Long Branch, NJ
About the Job
Clinical Pharmacist (FT) - West Long Branch, NJReq #:0000123928
Category:Pharmacy
Status:Full-Time
Shift:Day
Facility:Barnabas Health Medical Group
Department:Cranbury Medical Group
Location:
MMG Vantage Point, 100 Highway 36, West Long Branch, NJ 07764
Job Summary:
An Ambulatory Care Clinical Pharmacist principal responsibility is to establish and maintain a direct patient care practice in the RWJBarnabas Health Rutgers Medical Group office practice site. The pharmacist member of the interprofessional RWJBH team will be responsible for comprehensive medication management for individual patients specifically for chronic disease states (e.g. diabetes, COPD, asthma, anticoagulation, dyslipidemia, osteoporosis, pain, and hypertension). Comprehensive medication management includes but is not limited to: pharmacotherapeutic interventions, pharmacy consultations, providing patient counseling and medication reconciliation, documentation of pharmacy activities, medication errors and adverse events.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
+ Evaluate, monitor, recommend and design patient specific pharmacotherapeutic regimens
+ Participate in pharmacy activities to assure safe, effective, appropriate, and economical use of medications to improve continuity of care and outcomes
+ Serve as a drug information resource to practice physicians and nurses and other team members
+ Participate in health system collaboratives as well as liaison with the acute care facilities
+ Engage in population health and wellness activities on behalf of the Clinically Integrated Network in collaboration with care coordination and managed care plans
+ Develop medication use policies and procedures and create/expand chronic care management programs
+ Create collaborative practice agreements to optimize evidence based pharmaceutical care
+ Participate in quality improvement activities including patient advisory committee, and patient care committees
+ Provide drug-therapy related education and training to team members
+ Participate in problem-solving where appropriate about best practice development for medications such as high cost, or otherwise sub-optimal therapies
+ Regularly monitor patient data and metrics to evaluate program effectiveness and clinical outcomes, and report updates
+ Accept and perform other duties as assigned
Qualifications & Requirements:
+ Doctor of Pharmacy degree from an ACPE-accredited institution and PGY1 pharmacy residency training are required
+ Completion of a PGY2 pharmacy residency in ambulatory care or family/internal medicine is required or at least 3 years of practice related experience
+ Pharmacy licensure in New Jersey will be required
+ The successful candidate will possess a high level of clinical practice skills and the interpersonal skills needed for interacting effectively with students, health professionals, and patients
+ Certification in basic life support (BLS) required
+ Certification in Ambulatory Care (BCACP) by the Board of Pharmacy Specialties (or other relevant board certification) is expected within two years of hire
Schedule:
Monday - Friday 8:00am - 4:00pm
This position requires working between 3 offices.
RWJBarnabas Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Category:Pharmacy
Status:Full-Time
Shift:Day
Facility:Barnabas Health Medical Group
Department:Cranbury Medical Group
Location:
MMG Vantage Point, 100 Highway 36, West Long Branch, NJ 07764
Job Summary:
An Ambulatory Care Clinical Pharmacist principal responsibility is to establish and maintain a direct patient care practice in the RWJBarnabas Health Rutgers Medical Group office practice site. The pharmacist member of the interprofessional RWJBH team will be responsible for comprehensive medication management for individual patients specifically for chronic disease states (e.g. diabetes, COPD, asthma, anticoagulation, dyslipidemia, osteoporosis, pain, and hypertension). Comprehensive medication management includes but is not limited to: pharmacotherapeutic interventions, pharmacy consultations, providing patient counseling and medication reconciliation, documentation of pharmacy activities, medication errors and adverse events.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
+ Evaluate, monitor, recommend and design patient specific pharmacotherapeutic regimens
+ Participate in pharmacy activities to assure safe, effective, appropriate, and economical use of medications to improve continuity of care and outcomes
+ Serve as a drug information resource to practice physicians and nurses and other team members
+ Participate in health system collaboratives as well as liaison with the acute care facilities
+ Engage in population health and wellness activities on behalf of the Clinically Integrated Network in collaboration with care coordination and managed care plans
+ Develop medication use policies and procedures and create/expand chronic care management programs
+ Create collaborative practice agreements to optimize evidence based pharmaceutical care
+ Participate in quality improvement activities including patient advisory committee, and patient care committees
+ Provide drug-therapy related education and training to team members
+ Participate in problem-solving where appropriate about best practice development for medications such as high cost, or otherwise sub-optimal therapies
+ Regularly monitor patient data and metrics to evaluate program effectiveness and clinical outcomes, and report updates
+ Accept and perform other duties as assigned
Qualifications & Requirements:
+ Doctor of Pharmacy degree from an ACPE-accredited institution and PGY1 pharmacy residency training are required
+ Completion of a PGY2 pharmacy residency in ambulatory care or family/internal medicine is required or at least 3 years of practice related experience
+ Pharmacy licensure in New Jersey will be required
+ The successful candidate will possess a high level of clinical practice skills and the interpersonal skills needed for interacting effectively with students, health professionals, and patients
+ Certification in basic life support (BLS) required
+ Certification in Ambulatory Care (BCACP) by the Board of Pharmacy Specialties (or other relevant board certification) is expected within two years of hire
Schedule:
Monday - Friday 8:00am - 4:00pm
This position requires working between 3 offices.
RWJBarnabas Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Source : RWJBarnabas Health
