Inpatient Pharmacy Clinical Coordinator - Specialist IV
Kaiser Permanente
Job Summary:
In addition to the responsibilities listed below, this position is also responsible for: completing moderately complex tasks to achieve National Pharmacy strategic priorities and goals across all inpatient pharmacy practice settings; performing and enacting standard changes in improvement plans inpatient operational performance within assigned service area; resolving, providing recommendations, and guiding junior colleagues in support tasks for delivery of pharmaceutical care, service, and operations to utilize and integrate centralized support services and technology; reviewing current processes to assure the quality of pharmaceutical care and services across practice settings, with focus on inpatient pharmacy, and to assure regulatory and corporate compliance; performing moderately complex tasks to assure consistent deployment of processes and tools to measure and ensures the quality of pharmaceutical care, operations, and service; completing and guiding work on the appropriate use of pharmaceuticals, consistent implementations of drug use initiatives, and support of care management initiatives; and regularly reviewing critical medical literature to independently vet and recommend updates to best practices and standards in drug therapy, independently.
Essential Responsibilities:
+ Promotes learning in others by proactively providing and/or developing information, resources, advice, and expertise with coworkers and members; builds relationships with cross-functional/external stakeholders and customers. Listens to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; proactively provides actionable feedback to others and to managers. Pursues self-development; creates and executes plans to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; leads by influencing others through technical explanations and examples and provides options and recommendations. Adopts new responsibilities; adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback; demonstrates flexibility in approaches to work; champions change and helps others adapt to new tasks and processes. Facilitates team collaboration to support a business outcome.
+ Completes work assignments autonomously and supports business-specific projects by applying expertise in subject area and business knowledge to generate creative solutions; encourages team members to adapt to and follow all procedures and policies. Collaborates cross-functionally and/or externally to achieve effective business decisions; provides recommendations and solves complex problems; escalates high-priority issues or risks, as appropriate; monitors progress and results. Supports the development of work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; identifies resources to accomplish priorities and deadlines. Identifies, speaks up, and capitalizes on improvement opportunities across teams; uses influence to guide others and engages stakeholders to achieve appropriate solutions.
+ Supports drug education and training efforts by: supporting development of trainings to continue drug education and staff development in-services for pharmacists, physicians, and other health care professionals, and students.
+ Provides pharmaceutical patient care and drug therapy by: sustaining and managing productive relationships with care providers and members; providing moderately complex case-specific drug information (e.g., drug therapy, adverse effects, compliance, appropriate use, and handling) to health care providers and members, independently; organizing, identifying issues, and/or beginning to recommend patient-specific drug therapy plans while monitoring progress of therapy through interviews, physical assessment, patient education and clinical laboratory monitoring, independently; collecting, analyzing, and presenting moderately complex therapeutic outcomes to health care providers to collaboratively identify possible drug plan improvements, independently; leading implementation, evaluating, and reporting utilization, as appropriate, of targeted medications and medication classes to evaluate impact of initiative work to assure safe, rational and cost-effective prescribing; developing, implementing and analyzing clinicians or department-level decisions, support, and feedback using tools, effectively engaging and driving support for the drug use management process; and facilitating moderately complex pharmaceutical care and optimal utilization of resources to and from acute and ambulatory patient-care settings.
+ Leverages, maintains, and complies with all existing internal and external quality, safety, emergency, and accreditation policy and procedures by: adhering to all regulatory rules and regulations (e.g., Drug Enforcement Administration [DEA], State Board of Pharmacy, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act [HIPAA]) and relevant internal regional and national policies; independently ensuring patient safety in the preparation and provisioning of care (e.g., medications, procedures, infection prevention), including consistent use of two patient identifiers and procedural time outs; identifying potential future accidents and reporting safety hazards, accidents and incidents, and unsafe working conditions promptly; and collaborating with physicians, other medical professionals, and health plan personnel to resolve moderately complex issues and assure quality and process outcome measures.
Minimum Qualifications:
+ Doctorate of Pharmacy or equivalent degree (e.g., Bachelors of Pharmacy from a School of Pharmacy) AND Minimum one (1) year of experience in pharmacy or a directly related field AND Post-Graduate Year 1 (PGY1) residency OR Doctorate of Pharmacy or equivalent degree (e.g., Bachelors of Pharmacy from a School of Pharmacy) AND Minimum three (3) years of experience in pharmacy or a directly related field.
+ Minimum one (1) year of experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.
+ Pharmacist License (Washington) required at hire
+ National Provider Identifier within 6 months of hire
Additional Requirements:
+ Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs): Cost Optimization; Confidentiality; Direct Care - Medication Therapy
COMPANY: KAISER
TITLE: Inpatient Pharmacy Clinical Coordinator - Specialist IV
LOCATION: Seattle, Washington
REQNUMBER: 1381235
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, state and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran, or disability status.
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