Description

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　　Summary:

　　UNC Triangle East is seeking a Pharmacy Transition Specialist / Student Intern to join our clinical support team, to deliver optimal medication management across UNC Triangle East Region (Raleigh, Holly Springs, Smithfield, Clayton). Let UNC Triangle East be the destination for your professional growth as you become a member of a team of pharmacy transition specialists. As a PharmD student/intern, you will have additional opportunities to enhance your educational and professional growth by observing and participating in emergency room situations and codes, shadowing other clinical and administrative pharmacists, and contributing to various research projects.

　　The Pharmacy Transition Specialist is an integral member of the Emergency Dept. team, responsible for working with patients to obtain and document the best possible medication history. The Pharmacy Transition Specialist's role is essential to assure high-quality and safe care by reducing medication duplications, omissions, and possible errors. Information obtained will be accurately entered into the system and will be used by the physician, pharmacist, nurse, and other providers as input into treatment plans and medication orders during hospitalization and in discharge planning for post-hospital transition and care.

　　Responsibilities:

　　Utilizes available resources for medication history collection

　　Performs medication reconciliation by interviewing patients, contacting pharmacies and physician offices to obtain an accurate medication history

　　Documents interventions made to the medication history in the electronic medical record

　　Participates in the training and development of pharmacy technicians and students.

　　Accurate work with careful attention to detail. Ability to adapt to changes in workload and schedule to meet patient needs. Ability to set priorities and solve problems

　　Job Highlights:

　　• Assembles and reviews medication history and document their findings

　　• Medication history information will be obtained from the patient directly or the patient's family, retail pharmacy or physician office

　　• This role is essential to assure high quality and safe care by reducing medication duplications, omissions and possible errors

　　• Good clinical judgment to determine accuracy of information obtained

　　• Working knowledge of common outpatient medication doses and dosage forms

　　Other Information

　　Other information:

　　Education Requirements:

　　● Completion of a nine-month Pharmacy Technician Program (or equivalent combination of education, training and experience).

　　Licensure/Certification Requirements:

　　● Registration with the NC Board of Pharmacy unless enrolled in a PharmD program.·CPhT from PTCB or ExCPT from NHA unless enrolled in a PharmD program.

　　Professional Experience Requirements:

　　● If completion of a Pharmacy Technician Program: No prior experience required.

　　● If a High School diploma or GED: Two (2) years of experience as a Pharmacy Technician.

　　Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:

　　This job profile is intended to provide a representation of responsibilities required. Employees may be requested to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically presented in this profile.Job Details

　　Legal Employer: NCHEALTH

　　Entity: UNC REX Healthcare

　　Organization Unit: Rex IP Pharmacy

　　Work Type: Per Diem

　　Standard Hours Per Week: 8.00

　　Salary Range: $18.20 - $25.86 per hour (Hiring Range)

　　Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity

　　Work Assignment Type: Onsite

　　Work Schedule: Weekend

　　Location of Job: US:NC:Raleigh

　　Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No

　　This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Heath Care System. This is not a State employed position.

　　Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

　　UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email [email protected] if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.

　　Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.