The Pharmacy Clinical Practice Specialist (PCPS) will work with providers, nurses, and pharmacy staff to provide appropriate recommendations regarding treatment alternatives or additional  interventions that maximize patient outcomes taking into consideration choice of therapy, safety, efficacy, formulary status, and pharmaco-economics. 

The PCPS will serve as a resource for advanced drug information support and expertise in ambulatory care for other staff.  The PCPS will provide drug therapy management through the establishment of a pharmacist-operated patient care clinic and/or telehealth clinic. The PCPS will collaborate with other clinical specialists on pharmacy training to promote learning and performance of pharmacists, technicians, residents, and students.   The PCPS will serve as a clinical instructor and preceptor for pharmacy students and residents.

The PCPS will maintain effective interdepartmental relationships by committee membership, problem resolution, and close cooperation with other departments to accomplish the organization’s mission and goals.  The goal is to foster a patient-focused, team-based multidisciplinary model of care that promotes rationale drug prescribing and monitoring to ensure positive outcomes are achieved with medication use.

The Pharmacy Clinical Practice Specialist will provide clinical and consultant pharmacy services to patients and health services personnel that will focus on two broad issues:

1. Patient-focused activities: drug therapy management,  drug information, provider consultations and drug regimen review, non-formulary medication consultations, patient education, and
2. Facility-focused activities: participation in Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee, drug use policy development, development of clinical practice guidelines, drug category reviews, medication use evaluations, utilization review and monitoring of prescribing trends, education for students, residents, pharmacy and health care staff, participation in performance improvement programs.

Problem solving, team building, communication, and administrative skills are essential.  This position requires a high degree of visibility and interaction with medical leadership.