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