Clinical Pharmacist

Job Summary:

This position is responsible for compounding and dispensing prescribed medications, vaccines, and other pharmaceuticals to provide the highest quality pharmaceutical care to Oyate Health Center (OHC) patients.

Essential Functions and Professional Behavior Expectations:

• Reviews prescriptions issued by Physician, or other authorized prescriber to assure accuracy and determine formulas and ingredients needed.
• Compounds medications, using standard formulas and processes such as weighing, measuring, and mixing ingredients.
• Screen, process and dispense prescriptions: monitor lab data, drug interactions, drug duplication, therapeutic outcomes, and compliance. Works with providers to develop treatment plans.
• Directs pharmacy employees engaged in preparing, packaging, and labeling pharmaceuticals.
• Responsible for coordination and oversight of assigned disease management clinic and/or specialty care area, including coordination, facilitation, education, patient care, testing, assessment, protocol review, maintenance, monitoring and reporting.
• Answers questions and provides information to pharmacy customers on drug interactions, side effects, dosage, and storage of pharmaceuticals.
• Maintains established procedures concerning quality assurance, security of controlled substances, and disposal of hazardous waste drugs.
• Enters data such as patient name, prescribed medication, and cost, to maintain pharmacy files, charge system, and inventory.
• Arrange schedules for the arrival of students and ensures proper paperwork and training has been completed. Mentor students on chart review, medication/case management presentations, and counseling techniques.
• Instructs interns and other medical personnel on matters pertaining to pharmacy.
• Serves on OHC Committees, Teams, and workgroups as assigned
• Performs/completes all other duties and projects as assigned by a pharmacy supervisor.
• Maintains current knowledge of and complies with federal, state, and local regulations affecting areas of responsibility.
• Maintain effective, collaborative interdepartmental and external relations.
• Must comply with federal laws and regulations as required by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

Professional Behavior

• Effectively plan, organize workload, and schedule time to meet the demands of the position.
• Work in a cooperative and professional manner with OHC and GPTCHB staff.
• Treat Great Plains tribes and collaborators with dignity and respect.
• Utilize effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Advance personal educational development by attending training sessions and seminars as appropriate.
• Exemplify excellent customer service with tribal stakeholders, health board colleagues, program partners, service recipients, visitors, and guests.
• Foster a work environment of wellness, courtesy, friendliness, helpfulness, and respect.
• Relate well and work collaboratively with coworkers and all levels of staff in a professional manner.
• Consistently demonstrate respect for and acceptance of differing capabilities, cultures, gender, age, sexual orientation and/or personalities.
• Maintain and ensure organizational privacy and confidentiality.
• Handle crisis and tolerate stress professionally.
• Be self-directed and take proactive initiative to assist others.
• Resolve issues with other departments and coworkers without direct supervision if needed.
• Exercise flexibility to alter plans/routines when situations require and continue to perform without projecting stress/frustration that would adversely affect the work environment.
• Promote an alcohol, tobacco, and drug-free lifestyle.
• Embrace modes of appearance and attire that reflect a professional presence.
• Adhere to GPTCHB policies and procedures.

Knowledge Required

• Knowledge of federal, state, and local regulations affecting areas of responsibility.
• Knowledge of current pharmaceutical practices and principles including pharmaceuticals, disease states, and treatment guidelines.
• Knowledge of available vaccinations, age requirements, and administration protocols.
• Knowledge of medications and code emergency medications.
• Knowledge of exposure control including blood borne pathogens and respiratory protection protocols.
• Skill in establishing priorities and organizing work.
• Skill in dealing with the public.
• Skill in oral and written communication.
• Skill in interpersonal relations.
• Skill in use of job-related equipment and diagnostic tools.
• Skill in use of personal computer and a variety of job-related software applications.

Supervisory Controls

The supervisor provides administrative direction with assignments in terms of broadly defined goals or functions. The employee usually has responsibility for independently planning, designing, and carrying out programs, projects, studies, or other work.

Results of the work are considered technically authoritative and are normally accepted without significant change. If the work should be reviewed, the review concerns such matters as fulfillment of program objectives, effect of advice and influence on the overall program, or the contribution to the advancement of technology. Recommendations for new projects and alteration of objectives usually are evaluated for such considerations as availability of funds and other resources, broad program goals, or established priorities.

Guidelines

Guidelines for performing the work are scarce or of limited use. Administrative policies, precedents, laws, and regulations are applicable but are stated in general terms. The employee uses initiative and resourcefulness in deviating from traditional methods or researching trends and patterns to develop new methods, criteria, or proposed new policies. Guidelines include state and federal laws, and regulatory agency requirements including DEA, Federal Pharmacy Law, and South Dakota Pharmacy Law. GPTCHB, OHC and department policies and procedures, including but not limited to ASP Guidelines and clinic policies. These guidelines require judgment, selection, and interpretation in application. This position assists with the development of departmental and health service policies and guidelines.

Complexity/Scope of Work

The work typically includes varied duties that require many different and unrelated processes and methods, such as those relating to well established aspects of an administrative or professional field. Decisions regarding what needs to be done include the assessment of unusual circumstances, variations in approach, and incomplete or conflicting data. The continuous changes healthcare and treatment options contributes to the complexity of the work.

The purpose of this position is to deliver the highest quality of pharmaceutical care to OHC patients. Successful performance helps ensure the overall effective and efficient operation of the pharmacy and OHC resulting in improved patient outcomes.

Contacts

Contacts are typically with clinical providers, patients/family members, employees, community resource agencies, various Health Departments, Tribal Health programs, and the general public. The purpose is to influence, motivate, interrogate, or control persons or groups. The employee must be skillful in approaching the individual or group in order to obtain the desired effect, such as gaining compliance with established policies and regulations by persuasion or negotiation or gaining information by establishing rapport. Contacts are primarily for obtaining, furnishing, exchanging, and providing factual medical information.

Work Environment/Physical Demands

The work is sedentary. Typically, the employee sits comfortably to do the work. However, there may be some walking; standing; bending; carrying of light items, such as papers, books, or small parts; or driving an automobile. The employee must be able to read, write, speak, and hear. The work involves moderate risks or discomforts that require special safety precautions, including exposure to contagious diseases. Employees may be required to use protective clothing, such as masks, gowns, coats, boots, goggles, gloves, or shields.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Supervisory and Management Responsibility

This is a non-supervisory position that may provide functional direction, guidance, and instruction to other employees when necessary. This position possess authority to assign, coordinate, and review quality and quantity of work of other employees. Instructs employees in specific techniques or technical methods for accomplishing work assignments. The employee may perform the same type of work as other employees but may be responsible for performance of the more technically difficult, controversial, or sensitive work assigned to the unit or group.

Minimum Qualifications

• Doctor of Pharmacy degree from an approved school of pharmacy, or a bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy with 2 years of clinical experience.
• Current unrestricted licensure to practice pharmacy in by are any US States or Territory.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification is required or must be obtained within ninety (90) days of employment.
• Must successfully pass a criminal and background check and a pre-employment drug screen.

The GPTCHB is a tribal organization which follows tribal preference laws. It is our policy to give preference to qualified Indian/Tribal candidates overqualified non-native candidates in hiring decisions if all other qualifications are equal.

Employment is contingent upon the outcome of all required criminal background checks and pre-employment drug screen.