Chief Clinical Pharmacist shall serve as a liaison between HospiceChoice Rx and all
customers and prospective customer to facilitate the development, implementation, and
coordination of guidelines, pharmacy standardization of formularies, competencies and
clinical practices as well as monitoring of control programs designed to minimize the
incidence of medication events and enhance patient safety.
Required Qualifications
Education pursuant to licensure requirement.
State Pharmacist License - your State Board of Pharmacy -REQUIRED
Preferred Qualifications
3-5 Years Experience in a hospice/palliative care environment.
One Year Experience utilizing Lean Six Sigma or similar performance improvement
methodologies.
Working knowledge of contract negotiations with participating HospiceChoice Rx
network pharmacies.
Advocating HospiceChoice Rx NaviScript/NADAC pricing
Other Qualification Requirements
Familiarity with claims processing, network pharmacy contracting and other
technology skills similar to Pharmacy APP’s.
Current license to practice pharmacy in the state of Your State without restriction
or probation.
Essential Functions
Communication and teamwork
Establishes effective working relationships between internal and external
customers.
Demonstrates ownership of problems, accountably seeking solutions within
his/her scope of control and influence.
Works well with others; productive working relationships with internal and
external constituents; promotes system collaboration.
Problem resolution
Utilizes methods and tools of performance improvement, to identify problems and
initiate action plans to reduce the risk.
Identifies opportunities for cost and quality improvements from the surveillance
activities. Serves as a facilitator to capitalize on them.
Identifies learning needs of staff. Presents and/or coordinates educational
programs that lead to changes in knowledge and practice and may consist of
educational in-services to the medical (including committee presentations),
nursing or pharmacy staff, or patients.
Assists in developing and revising policies and procedures related to ADE and
prevention.
Regulatory responsibilities
Maintains thorough knowledge of current regulatory expectations affecting the
provision of clinical pharmacy services and therapeutic medication usage in
general, assisting customers to remain compliant.
Responsible for actions which result in improved patient and department
outcomes
Consistently demonstrates self-motivation in identifying opportunities for
pharmacy to contribute more greatly to patient care by improving outcomes.
Seeks out opportunities for unique pharmacy contributions toward enhancing the
success of fellow care providers and patients.
Continually works toward enhancement of the contribution and role of pharmacy
in the reduction of ADE and improvement in patient care.
Participates as appropriate in medical staff advisory groups, multi-site design or
multidisciplinary teams, focus groups, task forces, or other designated activities
that lead to improvement in safe medication use.
Facilitates and keeps up with medication safety practices.
