UK HealthCare is dedicated to providing quality health services and is seeking a Pharmacist Program Coordinator. This role focuses on developing and optimizing pharmacy policies and protocols to ensure safe medication use while collaborating with clinical experts and managing pharmacy initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Work with subject matter experts in the development and optimization of the Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee, pharmacy policies, protocols, guidelines and technologies to promote safe medication use and enterprise efficiency
- Standardize medication procurement, inventory, utilization, and billing in ambulatory clinics
- Develop a formulary-like system to review medication utilization in clinics
- Assist with onboarding and new medication requests, including enterprise wide vaccine use
- Maintain good working relationships with clinical experts across the department and enterprise
- Assist with the coordination of materials development, meeting execution, and facilitation of educational activities for the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committees and other clinical initiatives
- Maintain formulary drug information tools and databases
- Work with the clinic procurement team to implement standard request, procurement, and fulfillment workflows
- Work with newly built and expanded clinics to onboard them to UKHC medication utilization processes
- Provide project management of the P&T Committee to coordinate the P&T process from request, build, validation and implementation
- Contribute to the activities related to pharmacy quality and safety by actively pursuing quality improvement initiatives, process improvement and other opportunities to streamline workflow and increase safety
- Actively participate in process improvement initiatives, interdisciplinary committees, and the education and training of residents, students, and staff
Skills
- PharmD
- Licensed Pharmacist
- No experience required
- The physical requirements of this position include: occasionally lifting, pushing, and/or pulling objects up to and over 25lbs; occasionally standing or walking with objects up to 15lbs; sitting at a computer workstation for extended periods of time while performing repetitive motions (such as typing); standing for extended periods of time, sometimes greater than 5 hours per day; and traversing several miles across and on campus for meetings and work on a regular basis
- PGY1 and/or PGY2 Residency in Med Use Safety, Administration, Drug Information, Infectious Diseases, other clinical specialties, or equivalent experience
- The ideal candidate will have strong written and verbal communication skills
- Knowledge of inpatient drug distribution
- Knowledge of pharmacy and healthcare related regulations and standards
Company Overview
UK HealthCare is the hospital that offers academic health care, research, education and clinical care at the University of Kentucky. It was founded in 1957, and is headquartered in Lexington, Kentucky, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://ukhealthcare.uky.edu/.
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