Pharmacist

Pharmacist

On-Call | Hourly

We're committed to compassionate care for all. Our patients. Our employees. You.

At La Clinica, we love our patients and enthusiastically treat them with the same care, respect, and dignity that we would our friends, family, and neighbors because that's who they are. If this appeals to you, La Clinica might be the right place to build your career. We're looking for the right team members to treat our patients with this level of care.

We extend our commitment to compassionate care to our employees as well. We invest in our employees' lives through competitive pay, comprehensive benefits packages, easy access to wellness, personal and professional.

The Pharmacist practice is a dynamic patient-oriented health service that applies a scientific body of knowledge to improve and promote patient health by means of appropriate drug use, drug-related therapy, and communication for clinical and consultative purposes. Provides services in alignment with La Clinica's mission vision and values.

Accountabilities Include:

Performs Essential Job Duties

• Serves patients by preparing medications, giving pharmacological information to multidisciplinary health care team, and monitoring patient drug therapies.
• Prepares medications by reviewing and interpreting physician orders and detecting therapeutic incompatibilities.
• Dispenses medication by compounding, packaging, and labeling pharmaceuticals.
• Controls medications by monitoring drug therapies; advising interventions.
• Completes pharmacy operational requirements by organizing and directing technicians' workflows, verifying their preparation, and labeling of pharmaceuticals, and verifying order entries, charges, and inspections.
• Provides pharmacological information by answering questions and request for health care professionals and counseling patients on drug therapies.
• Develops staff pharmacological knowledge by participating in clinical programs and training pharmacy staff, students, interns, and health care professionals.
• Complies with state, federal, state board of pharmacy, drug enforcement administration and food and drug administration laws.
• Maintains records for controlled substances and removes outdated and damaged drugs from the pharmacy inventory.
• Supervises the work results for support personnel.
• Maintains infection control policies and procedures
• Adheres to all safety practices to ensure patient safety.

Additional Duties:

• Performs other job duties, as assigned.
• Completes assigned training via La Clinicals learning module system (Relias) by required due date.

Qualifications:

Must be able to interact with a variety of individuals at various levels under stressful circumstances while exercising sound judgement, tact, and diplomacy; work productively both independently and in a team setting; communicate with clarity, both verbally and in writing to groups and individuals.

Education and/or Experience:

Required:

• Minimum: Active Oregon Pharmacist License, PharmD preferred
• Minimum of 2-5 years pharmacy experience required.
• Demonstrated knowledge of pharmacy operations, pricing, inventory, and billing systems.
• Excellent process improvement skills and be able to understand health center functions, operations, and organizational culture.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including communication skills, critical thinking skills, meticulous documentation skills, the ability to handle stressful situations, and the capacity to function independently.
• Ability to earn the trust and develop strong relationships with others, internally and externally.

Preferred:

• Prior experience working with 340b programs and Federally Qualified Health Centers
• Experience with managed care, ACOs, PBMs and risk bearing entities
• Experience in the use of information technology and ability to organize, analyze and synthesize complex data from various sources.
• Experience and/or good working knowledge of Six Sigma, LEAN, etc. a plus.
• Skilled at using electronic health records as applicable to area of work (EPIC).

Equity Statement:

At La Clinica, we commit to engage everyone in a welcoming, respectful, and loving way and to maintain the dignity and value of all people above everything else. These standards align with our organization's vision of absolute excellence, open-hearted community, and well-being for all.

For more information, please visit our website at: https://laclinicahealth.org/patients/approach/

Applications will be reviewed by the appropriate Department for interview; those selected must be able to provide proof of legal right to work in this country. Criminal history background check and pre-employment drug screen will be performed prior to any job offers. La Clinica is a drug free work environment. Equal Opportunity Employer. La Clinica complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you consider yourself disabled and desire assistance in the application process, please contact the Human Resources Department.