Clinical Pharmacy Specialist
Legacy Community Health
- Location
- Houston, TX
- Posted
- Oct 21
- 1 day ago
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About the company
Legacy Community Health
Hospital & health care · 1,001 to 5,000 employees
The largest Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in Southeast Texas, Legacy Community Health has delivered affordable, high-quality care for nearly 40 years across 50+ clinics in Greater Houston and the Gulf Coast. Our mission — driving healthy change in our communities — guides everything we do, and it starts with our people.
What you'll do
- Provides pharmaceutical care services through direct interactions with patients and providers and works independently under individualized scope of clinical practice.
- Conducts face-to-face or virtual care to provide chronic disease state medication management services.
- Obtains comprehensive medical and/or medication histories from patients and/or their records and summarizes the significant findings as documented in the medical record to ensure safe and effective care.
- Reconciles patient medications at ambulatory care clinic visits.
- Performs physical assessments and triaging patients as needed.
- Documents encounters and interventions in the patient electronic medical record.
- Designs, implements, assesses, monitors, and documents therapeutic plans utilizing the most effective, least toxic and most economical medications under scope of practice.
- Initiates, modifies, renews, refills, or discontinues medication therapy using approved delegated procedures.
- Orders labs and other tests to help determine efficacy and toxicity of medication therapy using approved delegating procedures.
- Documents/reports adverse drug events (ADEs) and medication allergies per procedure.
- Practices pharmacy in compliance with all governing regulatory authorities.
- Reviews patient profile to ensure appropriate drug selection and dosage.
- Provides accurate, adequate, drug information/education to patients, families, and providers on drug interactions, side effects, dosage, and storage of pharmaceuticals.
- Assesses medication adherence during the process of medication counseling.
- Demonstrates the ability to set priorities, work independently and cooperatively with others within and outside the department.
- Presents information (verbal and/or written) in a clear and concise manner.
- Serves as preceptor to students at affiliated schools of pharmacy and pharmacy residents (when available).
- Performs other duties as assigned.
What you need
- Graduate of an accredited college/university of pharmacy (PharmD or B.S. with equivalent experience)
- Completion of ASHP accredited PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency
- Valid license from the Board of Pharmacy of the State of Texas
- Certification in Basic Life Support / First Aid / CPR
- Education: a bachelor's degree or a postgraduate degree
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Perks
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Company Holidays
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Life Insurance
- 403(b) Retirement Plan
- Subsidized Gym Membership
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