Specialty Pharmacist: On-Site Aspirus Health (Wausau, WI)

Position summary

Essential responsibilities/Duties

• You oversee the accurate preparation of medications, ensuring precision and attention to every patient detail for the highest quality prescriptions.
• Your crucial responsibility includes verifying all medications before they leave the pharmacy, maintaining strict quality standards.
• As an expert in compounding prescribed medications, you package and label with precision, ensuring correct and safe delivery to every patient.
• You provide invaluable consultations to customers, serving as a trusted source for information and support.
• Beyond pharmaceuticals, you dispense medical and surgical products, demonstrating a commitment to accuracy, including handling restricted items.
• Meticulous record-keeping ensures the highest standards of accuracy and safety for all dispensed prescriptions.
• Your specialty in handling order entry into pharmacy management systems streamlines processes for maximum efficiency.
• Patient care is at the core of your role, encompassing enrollments, ongoing adherence follow-ups, and ensuring patients receive the right care.
• Your excellence in medication reconciliation and seamless collaboration with electronic medical records ensures patient safety.
• Specialty clinics turn to you for pharmacy clinical support, highlighting your dedication to providing vital assistance.
• As a leader among pharmacy staff, you supervise compliance with federal, state, and applicable laws, optimizing operations through guidance and strategic reassignments.
• Your role extends to developing the pharmacy staff, providing direction, coaching, and identifying training gaps for career advancement.
• Maintaining contact with physicians and providers ensures a seamless experience for patients, highlighting your effective communication skills.
• Your attention to detail in handling third-party insurance forms and paperwork ensures smooth transactions and clear records.
• As a professional, you uphold the highest standards, providing a confidential and respectful environment for customers.
• Your unwavering commitment to compliance with accreditation, legal, regulatory, and safety requirements, including DEMPOS standards, ensures adherence to all standards.
• Providing invaluable drug education and counseling, your expertise helps patients navigate their treatments.
• In-service education, where you share knowledge with healthcare practitioners, demonstrates your commitment to benefiting the entire healthcare community.

Education

• A PharmD or bachelor's degree from an accredited College of Pharmacy is required.

Certificates, licenses, registrations required

• An active Pharmacist licensure (in good standing) to practice pharmacy in the state in which you are applying in or and/or the ability to acquire this at the time of hire is required.

Experience

• 2+ years of direct pharmacy experience is required.
• PGY1 preferred

Knowledge and skills

• A comprehensive understanding of the procedures, systems, and equipment used by pharmacists and technicians in the pharmacy and an elevated level of proficiency in performing pharmacist’s duties and responsibilities.
• A high level of analytical ability, organizational and personal management skill and focus to ensure the concerted approach to operations.
• Practice experience working with as well as revising and/or implementing information systems.
• Excellent interpersonal and phone communication skills.
• Professional in conduct and demeanor.
• Proficient with standard software used in healthcare office settings (i.e. MS Word, Excel, web browser, etc.).

Additional knowledge and skills preferred

• Knowledge and understanding of the federal funded 340B program is highly preferred.
• QS1 and Specialty Pharmacy experience is preferred.
• Depending on site-specific requirements, an active certification in good standing as a Certified Specialty Pharmacist (CSP) from the National Association of Specialty Pharmacy (NASP) may be required but is preferred. Experience with Specialty medications and immunizations is preferred.

Special Working Conditions (On-call, travel, shift, coverage)

• Clearway Health Specialty Pharmacies, serving patients in hospitals, health systems, and communities, may require employees at client sites to work on company-recognized holidays.

This information is being provided to promote pay transparency and equal employment opportunities at Clearway Health. The current annual compensation range for this position is $120,000 - $140,000. The actual rate within this range that you will be offered will depend on a variety of factors including geography, skills and abilities, education, experience and other relevant factors.

The above statements in this job description are intended to depict the general nature and level of work assigned to the employee(s) in this job. The above is not intended to represent an exhaustive list of accountable duties and responsibilities required. External and internal applicants, as well as position incumbents who become disabled as defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act, must be able to perform the essential job functions (as listed) either unaided or with the assistance of a reasonable accommodation to be determined by management on a case-by-case basis.