Essential Job Functions

Percent of Time Spent

Leads assigned patient service lines, clinical areas, and therapeutic programs

• Facilitates pharmaceutical care services, direct patient care programs, medication utilization systems within assigned services and care areas to assure activities are aligned with patient care needs, evidence-based best practices, and regulatory standards
• Actively identifies areas of opportunities for expansion and or modification of pharmacy services
• Designs and implements new pharmacy programs, quality improvement changes, and continuous quality assurance initiatives to advance the organization’s medication-use systems and promote optimal patient outcomes in the ambulatory care space
• Tracks and evaluates assigned pharmacy programs for operational, quality, and financial efficiency and routinely benchmarks against local and national best practices
• Actively identifies and reports short- and long-term obstacles to patient care and medication safety, regulatory compliance, or stewardship or resources
• Develops annual goals for areas of practice
• Provides departmental and institutional leadership for medical staff committees/meetings, hospital group/task forces, and approved external programs/organizations
• Assures pharmacy is an integral part of the health-care delivery system and facilitates enhancement and expansion of pharmacy services/programs

10%

Delivers direct patient-care and clinical practice, including decentralized and service-based programs

• Maintains proficiency in ambulatory pharmacy services and clinical pharmacy programs
• Maintains proficiency in hospital computer systems and medication ordering systems
• Places practice priority on the delivery of patient-centered care
• Works as an active member of multidisciplinary teams and collaborates with healthcare providers
• Establishes collaborative pharmacist-patient relationships
• Evaluates the patient’s health needs via direct patient interaction
• Provide services to ensure optimal transitions of care, including collecting, reconciling, and correcting patient medication discrepancies
• Work collaboratively with the patient’s provider to establish patient centered disease state goals
• Create and implement patient centered therapy plans as outlined by current literature and scope specific agreements, policies, and guidelines
• Implements, evaluates, and redesigns pharmaceutical care plans based on patient progress, evolving goals for medication usage, adverse drug reactions, and adherence. This includes adjustment of medications, ordering labs for monitoring, and titration of medications as outlined in the policies and procedures
• Accurately orders medications, vital signs, or pertinent laboratory tests for patients
• Provides written documentation in the patient’s medical record for all patient encounters
• Educates patients regarding safe and effective use of medications, possible medication side effects, and the role of prescribed medications in the overall therapeutic care plan
• Provides evidence-based medication education to physicians, nurses, and other professionals
• Identifies, mitigates, prevents, and documents problems with medication orders or therapeutic regimens, including medication errors or adverse drug reactions
• Completes critical patient monitoring and reviews patient profile/chart to identify, prevent, or mitigate drug-related problems, drug interactions, patient adherence, untreated indications, medication use without an indication, and treatment failures
• Communicates effectively and appropriately with health care providers and caregivers (physicians, nurses, etc.) and assures continuity of pharmaceutical care
• Provides timely, comprehensive, and appropriate drug information to patients and health care providers
• Follows established standard work parameters and maintains standard work environments
• Documents pharmacist interventions

60 %

Facilitates experiential education and practice advancement

• Maintains proficiency in the four preceptor roles and actively emulates education/mentorship skills
• Serves as a preceptor/educator for MGH pharmacy residency (PGY1 and PGY2) and student experiential education programs, including maintaining training and experience in pharmacy practice areas appropriate for teaching assignments
• Develops student, resident, and staff training experiences/competencies and creates new relationships for teaching and training opportunities
• Identifies, designs, and implements improvements in the medication-use system to advance patient safety, maximize therapeutic outcomes, or control costs
• Represents the department at hospital meetings, committees, and events as requested
• Identify, design, implement, and assess the impact of a practice related project using effective project management skills

25%

Performs other duties as assigned

• Maintain a sustained record of contribution to the total body of knowledge in pharmacy practice through presentations, publications, and professional affiliation activities
• Present poster or platform presentations at state or national forums at least every 24 months
• Submit material worthy for publishing in a peer-reviewed journal at least every 24 months
• Participate as a formal reviewer for a peer-reviewed medical or pharmacy journal
• Attend, participate in, and conduct continuing education programs and conferences to keep current with developments in the profession and to maintain license

5%