Job Description

City/State

Chesapeake, VA

Work Shift

First (Days)

Sentara is hiring a Pharmacist (Full-time) Clinical Specialist position for the Primary Care Medical Groups.

Location: Hybrid. Local travel and on-site work at primary care clinical locations will be required. Remote telehealth work will be offered at the manager's discretion.

Status: FT (40 hours per week) Mon-Fri

Shift: Days, 8 hr Shifts

Hours: 8:00am-4:30pm or 8:30am-5:00pm

*This Hybrid position requires 2-3 days per week onsite each week at one or more primary care practices.

As a Pharmacist on the Ambulatory Clinical Support Team, the Clinical Pharmacy Specialist will be responsible for chronic disease management under collaborative practice agreements with 5-10 primary care providers (depends on panel size), including disease states like hypertension, diabetes, hypercholesterolemia, obesity, and more. They will provide support for our Nurse Clinics as well as direct patient care via face-to-face visits with patients in the practice, telehealth visits, and follow-up phone calls.

Seeking a highly motivated, creative-minded person who embraces change and is excited at the thought of helping to shape the future of the ambulatory pharmacy practice service model within Sentara. The Pharmacist is helping to develop and implement a new care model and several new service lines.

The Clinical Pharmacy Specialist participates in all aspects of the medication-use system while delivering comprehensive and personalized pharmaceutical care to patients in their designated areas. This role assumes leadership and accountability for specific clinical pharmacy areas, demonstrates advanced skills and expertise, and obtains advanced certification in their practice area if available.

• Manages patient drug therapy in accordance with applicable clinical practice standards

• Assures the appropriateness of all provider medication orders in maintaining a high level of patient care and safety

• Maintains advanced knowledge of medication use, disease states, and regulations applicable to their area of practice

• Serves as the primary resource for drug information and education

• Provides in-depth patient counseling when required

• Supports the training of new employees and participates in the creation and maintenance of training materials

• Assumes local and system responsibility and ownership for assigned tasks

• Consistently follows and assists with the development of policies and procedures

• Demonstrates superior customer service, effective communication, decision-making, and organization to ensure efficient job performance and success

• Ensures adequate supplies are available for continuous patient care

• Triages and escalates any questions or issues outside the scope of practice as needed

• Uses appropriate systems for processing of patient information

• Ensures quality assurance is maintained according to departmental and legal requirements

• Precepts pharmacy students and/or pharmacy residents as assigned

• Provide peer coaching and constructive feedback to other colleagues in a professional and productive manner

• Successfully leads local and system implementation of various system initiatives

• Serves as a system expert and site lead in specialized clinical pharmacy functions

• In addition to the above job responsibilities, other duties may be assigned

Education

• Doctorate Degree in Pharmacy (Preferred)

• Bachelor's Degree in Pharmacy (Required)

Certification/Licensure

• Virginia Pharmacist License (Required)

• Basic Life Support (BLS) (Required)

• Pharmacy Board Certification, such as BCACP, BCPS, or BCGP (Preferred)

Experience

• Minimum 3 years of Clinical Pharmacist experience (Required)

• Ambulatory and Clinical Pharmacy Experience (Preferred)

• Residency Trained, PGY1/PGY2 (Preferred)

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Sentara Health is an equal opportunity employer and prides itself on the diversity and inclusiveness of its close to an almost 30,000-member workforce. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging is a guiding principle of the organization to ensure its workforce reflects the communities it serves.

In support of our mission “to improve health every day,” this is a tobacco-free environment.

For positions that are available as remote work,Sentara Health employs associates in the following states:

Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.