Pharmacist

Rx relief is a specialty staffing company that has provided supplemental pharmacy professionals for all pharmacy practice settings, hospital, retail, home, infusion, and long term care since 1978. With over thirty years of experience, Rx relief is well known for quality professional placements, dependable service that is guaranteed, and the industry’s most business-like approach to our pharmacy staffing issues.

Join one of the nation’s leading pharmacy placement firms! Right now, Rx relief has a great opportunity for an experienced Traveling Pharmacist. Voted Best of Staffing by both clients and talent, we are a specialty staffing company providing supplemental pharmacy professionals for all pharmacy practice settings. We are seeking a Traveling Per Diem Pharmacist for various settings including: Retail, Outpatient, Closed Door Specialty, PBM, Independents, and Hospital Inpatient in and around the Denver Metro area. (Examples: Highlands Ranch, Littleton, Thornton, Lakewood, Castle Rock, Denver) As a member of our team you’ll enjoy a customized approach to your career needs as well as comprehensive benefits! Join our dynamic team, apply today!

**Job Responsibilities in Community Retail and Long Term Care settings:** * Establishing or maintaining patient profiles, including lists of medications taken by individual patients * Maintaining proper storage and security conditions for drugs * Answering telephones, responding to questions or requests by patient and Pharmacy Technicians * Prepackaging bulk medicines, filling bottles with prescribed medications, and typing and affixing labels * Mixing pharmaceutical preparations, according to written prescriptions * Verifying prescriptions and counseling * Assisting customers by answering simple questions, locating items, or referring them to the pharmacist for medication information **Job Responsibilities in Inpatient settings:** * Responsible for setting criteria for medication analysis, coordinate reports to clients, meet regulatory reporting requirements for drug utilization review and fraud and abuse reporting. * Review medication orders for appropriateness and accuracy including, but not limited to: contraindications, allergies, dose, frequency, duplicate therapy and formulary status * Interprets Clarifies and rectifies physician medications and IV orders, including the medication reconciliation process * Interprets Clarifies and rectifies prescriptions and selects medications for Outpatient dispensing * Monitors all patients on specified target drugs and initiates Pharmacokinetic dosing protocols. * Evaluates drug therapy for appropriateness and makes drug therapy recommendations to clinician * Prescribes drug therapy per collaborative drug therapy management agreements/medical Executive Committee approved protocols * Dispenses the final product for administration and performs patient counseling * Detect, monitor and report adverse drug events and medication errors (EIR) * Supervise and train pharmacy technicians to assure accurate order entry, preparation and proper technique according to USP 797 compliance * Supervise and trains pharmacy interns and externs. May serve as preceptor for the intern or extern as defined by the State Board of Pharmacy * Participate in development of drug protocols and clinical pathways * Perform drug usage evaluations on selected drugs and reports results to the Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee. Completes quality assurance auditing as required for prescriptive authority

* Area: Flexible availability and ability to travel in the Denver Metro area- available shifts in Highlands Ranch, Littleton, Thornton, Lakewood, Castle Rock, Denver * Licensure requirements: Must have valid, open and active Colorado Pharmacist license * Education: B.S. or Pharm D * Years of experience: 1+ year(s) of recent pharmacy experience within a retail setting. To be scheduled for Hospital Inpatient pharmacies, you will need 1+ year(s) of Staff or Clinical Pharmacist experience. * Schedule: Varies, weekends/holidays may be needed * Pay: Depending On Experience * Background/drug requirements: Ability to successfully complete background check, and drug screen * Expenses covered: Meals, Miles, and Lodging with prior approval with distances travelled over 100 miles