Pharmacy Resident
Role: Pharmacy Resident
Job Location: New York City, NY
Pay Range: $ 40/ Hr - $ 43/ Hr
Job Summary:
- The Pharmacy resident is responsible for assisting the Clinical pharmacy manager with all aspects of formulary management, care management and utilization management strategies across all lines of business.
- The pharmacy resident will be responsible for improving patient care through various clinical programs, medication reconciliation, counseling and care management.
- The resident will have opportunities to develop evidence-based clinical decision making, project management, analytic and leadership skills.
Job Responsibilities:
- Assists with formulary and utilization management for medications across all lines of business.
- Develops drug monographs and coverage criteria for Pharmacy and Therapeutics meetings and upon request.
- Completes retro utilization review for drugs of interest and provides in depth analysis.
- Completes Prior Authorization reviews as needed.
- Develop and maintains various pharmacy quality initiatives and generates regular monthly reports for key performance indicators.
- Provides education to staff on new therapies, new criteria, new guidelines to ensure internal pharmacy staff are versed on up to date trends.
- Assists in Pharmacy case management programs to improve quality of care and monitoring of MetroPlus members.
- Assists in organizational and departmental quality improvement initiatives.
Skills:
- Doctor of Pharmacy required.
- Proficiency with MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint is required.
- Experience in the evaluation and interpretation of pharmacy claims data and other clinical data is preferred.
- Position requires excellent organizational, teamwork, interpersonal, time management, written and verbal communication skills.
- Current New York State Pharmacy License (active and not limited).
- Experience in Pharmacy management of government programs (Medicaid and Exchange) preferred.
Education:
- Doctor of Pharmacy required