Job description
JOB SUMMARY:
The PRN Clinical Pharmacist works collaboratively with members of the pharmacotherapy department to help maintain schedule consistency in MAHEC clinics by providing direct patient care when faculty pharmacists are away. Responsibilities include providing direct patient care services at FHC Biltmore, OBGYN, Newbridge, Cane Creek, Deerfield, Givens, and Enka-Candler.
SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provides direct patient care services to patients at FHC Biltmore, Newbridge, Cane Creek, Enka-Candler, Deerfield, and Givens
- Conducts visits including Annual Wellness Visits (AWV) as well as chronic disease management including but not limited to diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, asthma, COPD, smoking cessation, medication assistance, polypharmacy, Comprehensive Medication Management (CMM).
- Appropriately documents all encounters in the electronic medical record and follows up on appropriate labs and tests
KEY COMPETENCIES:
Communication Skills
Effectively and respectably communicate with other individuals, whether it be a colleague, patient, or patient’s family member and appropriately enumerate information in a manner easily understood by all parties. We do this to foster a culture of understanding between all parties, especially in complex and difficult situations, to ultimately provide the best care possible to our patients and their families.
Decision Making
Ability to make the most appropriate decision in a given situation and then taking the next steps to ensure appropriate and timely completion. This requires conflict resolution skills, critical thinking skills, confidence in your ability to make the right decision in most situations. This also includes ability to prioritize your workday appropriately to ensure the most important tasks are completed on time.
HealthCare Knowledge
Having the drive to keep yourself abreast and up to date on the new breakthroughs in your area of expertise and communicating them to the rest of the team, as appropriate. This also includes keeping up with your licensure and yearly training requirements within your area expertise along with MAHEC’s organizational training. Finally, the ability to apply the depth of knowledge maintained and gained through this process in real life scenarios as appropriate.
Interpersonal Skills
Showing the ability to meet difficult situations with grace, professionalism, and understanding. Within your area of expertise, showing respect and showing empathy where appropriate with your colleagues, patients, and their family at all times, even when its most difficult to do so. This is done, in part, by effective listening, being your authentic self, showing responsibility and dependability, and being patient with others.
Organizational Values
Adherence to MAHEC’s founding principles and incorporating them every day. This includes, among others, having integrity and accountability, reverence for other cultures and equitable practices, ability to manage change, and displaying a clear understanding of organizational dynamics. Doing these things creates a culture where people want to do the best for each other and gives personal ownership towards the goal of helping people in their time of need.
Problem Solving
Having an analytical mind and ability to work autonomously to solve complex problems that may arise. The wherewithal to think logically through a difficult problem and come to an appropriate resolution for a given issue. This helps to drive continuous improvement by thinking through where we can improve in a novel way. Measures success by understanding where we are currently and where we want to go and then applying those new ideas to affect positive change.
SPECIFIED SKILLS
COMPUTER
- Basic knowledge in word-processing and spreadsheets required.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
- Light - Moderate energy level: Lift and carry 25 - 35 lbs, Push/Pull 50 - 100 lbs (empty bed, stretcher, etc.)
- Occasional (0 - 33% of Workday)
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- None
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- Must be a graduate of an accredited School of Pharmacy with advanced training (Pharm.D.).
- Minimum of one year of clinical and administrative practice experience and experience teaching and working collaboratively with other health care professionals and pharmacy students required.
- Completion of an ASHP-accredited residency required
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Completion of an ASHP-accredited residency in geriatrics or ambulatory care.
- Board certification preferred.
REQUIRED LICENSES:
- Registered Pharmacist with an active and unencumbered license to practice in North Carolina or meets eligibility requirements for endorsement by the Board of Pharmacy, eligibility to apply for Clinical Pharmacist Practitioner status, eligibility for clinical faculty appointment with the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and UNC School of Medicine, and a valid North Carolina driver’s license required for regular in-town driving on a daily basis. Board Certification (BCPS, BCACP, BCGP, BCADM) is expected within one year of start date.
SCHEDULE:
Regular attendance on-site is an essential function of this position. Typical business hours are Monday – Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm (or flexed to best meet the needs of the clients and/or the Division); 40 hours per workweek; weekend, holiday, or evening coverage is occasionally required. Work hours will need to be flexible in order to respond to special work assignments, or evening activities, as requested by the team leader.
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, MAHEC has worked tirelessly to promote evidence-based practices across our entire organization. With this in mind, all MAHEC employees and learners will be required to receive the COVID-19 vaccine or have an approved exemption.
MAHEC Talent Management is located at 121 Hendersonville Road, Asheville, NC 28803. Equal Opportunity Employer. Black, Indigenous, People of Color and Spanish/English bilingual persons are strongly encouraged to apply.
MAHEC is a certified Living Wage employer through Just Economics of Western North Carolina. We offer excellent benefits and are committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace.
MAHEC is a certified Living Wage employer through Just Economics of Western North Carolina. We offer excellent benefits and are committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace.
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