Clinical Pharmacist

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Optum’s Pacific West region is redefining health care with a focus on health equity, affordability, quality, and convenience. From California, to Oregon and Washington, we are focused on helping more than 2.5 million patients live healthier lives and helping the health system work better for everyone. At Optum Pacific West, we care. We care for our team members, our patients, and our communities. Join our culture of caring and make a positive and lasting impact on health care for millions.

Under general direction of the Chief Medical Officer, the Clinical Pharmacist ensures the safe, effective, cost-conscious use of medications by providing expertise in the therapeutic benefits, drug interactions, adverse reactions and disease-specific evidence-based treatment protocols common to primary care and specialty medicine. The Clinical Pharmacist will interact with patients, clinicians, nurses, and other health care providers to provide management, information and education about the use of drugs.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Works providing direct patient care. Obtains and evaluates patient medication regimens, allergies and past/current medical history. Designs, recommends and monitors patient specific therapeutic regimens with evidence-based medicine. Uses collaborative drug therapy management protocols for disease state management. Examples include diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and pain management
• Participates and supports guideline, pathway, and other disease management efforts. Participates in providing drug use feedback to providers using available data
• Collaborates with nurse care managers to provide expert advice on prescribing practices for selected patients with complex and unstable disease to improve their health and prevent unnecessary hospital and emergency care costs
• Conducts target drug programs or other interventional efforts designed to optimize the use of pharmaceuticals
• Professional Practice: Remains current in pharmaceutical regulations and applicable laws, and advises Oregon Medical Group to ensure compliance. Precepts pharmacy students in collaboration with other pharmacists
• Pharmacy and Therapeutics (P&T) Committee participation as an ad hoc member. Conducts formulary reviews and drug monographs based on a rotation of clinical pharmacists
• Performs other duties as assigned

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy RPh or a PharmD degree from accredited college or university
• Current Oregon Pharmacy license
• Pharmacy practice residency or 3+ years of practice experience in direct patient care

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in an electronic medical record system
• Experience in an ambulatory care clinic or inpatient setting

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone–of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income–deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes – an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: OptumCare is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employers and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.   

OptumCare is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.