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CORE JOB SUMMARY The Specialty Pharmacist 2 (H) independently provides comprehensive clinical and operational pharmacy services for patients receiving specialty medications through UHealth Specialty Pharmacy. The pharmacist is responsible for safe and effective medication use, prescription verification, patient education, therapy monitoring, clinical interventions, medication access support, and coordination with prescribers and interdisciplinary care teams while supporting specialty pharmacy quality, accreditation, regulatory compliance, patient retention, and operational performance across the medication-use continuum.
CORE JOB FUNCTIONS 1. Independently provides comprehensive clinical and operational pharmacy services for patients receiving specialty medications through UHealth Specialty Pharmacy.
2. Reviews and verifies specialty medication prescriptions for appropriateness, accuracy, dose, indication, allergies, drug interactions, contraindications, laboratory parameters, and applicable clinical requirements.
3. Provides patient education and counseling regarding specialty medications, including administration, adherence, adverse effects, storage, handling, monitoring, and therapy-specific requirements.
4. Performs initial and ongoing clinical assessments, medication reconciliation, adherence assessments, therapy monitoring, and clinically appropriate follow-up in accordance with specialty pharmacy protocols and accreditation standards.
5. Identifies, documents, resolves, and communicates medication-related problems and clinical interventions with prescribers, nurses, pharmacy team members, and other members of the interdisciplinary care team.
6. Collaborates with medication access, prior authorization, patient assistance, financial assistance, ambulatory pharmacy, clinic, and payer teams to facilitate timely access to specialty medications.
7. Supports prescription capture and patient retention by coordinating specialty prescriptions within UHealth and resolving clinical, access, fulfillment, and continuity-of-care barriers.
8. Ensures specialty pharmacy services comply with applicable federal and state regulations, Florida Board of Pharmacy requirements, accreditation standards, payer requirements, manufacturer requirements, and organizational policies.
9. Maintains complete, accurate, and timely documentation of clinical assessments, interventions, patient communications, therapy outcomes, and required specialty pharmacy activities.
10. Monitors patient response to therapy and relevant laboratory or clinical parameters and provides clinically appropriate recommendations or escalation.
11. Provides drug information and clinical recommendations to patients, prescribers, nurses, pharmacy staff, and other healthcare professionals.
12. Manages specialty medication requirements, including REMS, limited distribution, manufacturer programs, payer requirements, and other therapy-specific controls.
13. Participates in quality improvement, medication safety, patient experience, accreditation readiness, regulatory readiness, and performance improvement initiatives.
14. Precepts and supports the development of pharmacy residents, students, technicians, and other pharmacy team members as appropriate.
15. Adheres to University and unit-level policies and procedures and safeguards University assets.
This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties or responsibilities as necessary.
CORE QUALIFICATIONS Education: Bachelor’s degree - Pharmacy (BPharm) required
Experience: Minimum 3 years of relevant experience required
Certification and Licensing: Valid State of Florida Registered Pharmacist license required Refer to department description for applicable certification requirements
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Learning Agility: Ability to learn new procedures, technologies, and protocols, and adapt to changing priorities and work demands.
- Teamwork: Ability to work collaboratively with others and contribute to a team environment.
- Technical Proficiency: Skilled in using office software, technology, and relevant computer applications.
- Communication: Strong and clear written and verbal communication skills for interacting with colleagues and stakeholders.
This is a core job profile description and is not reflective of all duties that may be assigned to a specific position in each individual department. The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and primary responsibilities of this core job profile. Specific duties and tasks may vary based upon departmental needs. Other duties may be assigned to the above consistent with the knowledge, skills, and abilities required for the job.
The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, tuition remission and more.
UHealth-University of Miami Health System, South Florida's only university-based health system, provides leading-edge patient care powered by the ground breaking research and medical education at the Miller School of Medicine. As an academic medical center, we are proud to serve South Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean. Our physicians represent more than 100 specialties and sub-specialties, and have more than one million patient encounters each year. Our tradition of excellence has earned worldwide recognition for outstanding teaching, research and patient care. We're the challenge you've been looking for.
The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination based on certain categories protected by Federal law.
Job Status:
Full time
Employee Type:
Staff
