Retail Pharmacist - Float - Casual

Description

The Pharmacist is responsible for utilizing clinical knowledge to review, prepare and dispense medications to patients ensuring compliance with best practices for patient safety, policies, procedures, standards and all regulations. As part of the SCH team, the pharmacist works closely with the medical team to provide safe, effective, and affordable medications to our patients. Other services shall include, but are not limited to, medication therapy management (MTM) services, offering immunizations to community members, and providing durable medical equipment (DME).

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

 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.

 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.

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. 

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). 

Department Workflow

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

 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 ACPE accredited School of Pharmacy with a Pharmacy degree
• Current Wisconsin Pharmacist License required

Experience:

• Prior Pharmacist experience preferred

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities: 

• High attention to detail and detailed oriented. 
• Excellent communication and listening skills.
• Leadership qualities, including coaching skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Time management and organizational skills; ability to simultaneously handle multiple tasks.
• Interest in clinical programs; MTM, Diabetes Care, etc.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Knowledge of advanced in pharmacy practices and understanding of healthcare and retail pharmacy trends.
• Ability to work effectively with providers, staff, and patients.
• Self-directed and highly engaged, but also able to work well in a team environment.
• Ability to solve problems and encourage others in collaborative problem solving. 

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Support day to day work functions of pharmacy and non-licensed personnel. 

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 20 pounds at times

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: To deliver care driven by excellence, guided by heart, and grounded in community.

Vision: To be a trusted partner in providing healthcare that is personal and accessible to all, by adapting to meet the needs of our communities, and support lifelong well-being.

Values: Integrity. Respect. Compassion. Collaboration

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

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.