[Hiring] Clinical Pharmacist Patient Care @UnitedHealth Group

Role Description

The Clinical Pharmacist is responsible for ensuring the safe and effective use of medications for Optum at Home patients by providing medication therapy management including:

• Medication reconciliation
• Assessing for optimal drug product selection
• Dosage regimen design
• Effective administration and drug therapy monitoring services

Activities entail collaborating with providers and other multi-disciplinary team members and applying medication management strategies in alignment with evidence-based medicine.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Participate in disease state management programs targeting chronic conditions such as diabetes, heart failure, COPD, and chronic kidney disease
• Manage chronic conditions through collaborative practice agreements (dependent on state-specific regulations)
• Appropriately manage, assess and/or recommend evidence-based medication therapy based on the patient’s clinical needs for optimizing care outcomes and reducing potential patient safety problems (i.e. drug interactions, suboptimal medication regimens, high risk medications, etc.)
• Communicate with providers to discuss pharmacy-related recommendations and benefit options
• Design, implement, assess, monitor, and document therapeutic plans utilizing the most effective, safe, and economical medication treatments
• Provide concise, applicable, comprehensive, and timely responses to requests for drug information from patients and health care providers
• Provide education to patients and/or caregivers regarding medications and chronic disease states
• Assess open STAR measure care gaps and provide evidence-based recommendations to prescribers, care teams, and patients to close quality gaps

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.

Qualifications

• Active, unrestricted Pharmacist license in your state of residence
• 2+ years of direct patient/member interaction
• 2+ years of experience in managed care, ambulatory, medication consultative services, and/or hospital settings
• Experience working within a multidisciplinary team including nurses, physicians, and care coordinators
• Solid clinical foundation and experience in providing clinical pharmacy services

Requirements

• Completion of a pharmacy residency in ambulatory care or primary care (preferred)
• Active, unrestricted Pharmacist license in multiple states (preferred)
• Board Certification (BCPS or BCACP) (preferred)
• 1+ years of experience with managed care pharmacy benefits (preferred)

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package
• Incentive and recognition programs
• Equity stock purchase
• 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements)

The salary for this role will range from $91,700 - $163,700 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.