Regional Pharmacist
The Regional Pharmacist is responsible for overseeing medication safety and implementing medication best practices and standards of care at addiction treatment facilities on a regional level, as well as providing guidance to state policymakers and presenting continuing education to a wide range of professional audiences.
The Regional Pharmacist will support EMO Health's contracts with the CDC and Massachusetts Department of Public Health and its licensees across the Commonwealth.
This is a non-dispensing, innovative career path for the pharmacist to act as a medication expert, project manager, compliance consultant, and professional education training specialist on the forefront of mental and behavioral healthcare.
This position includes working from home (remote) with regular travel to treatment facilities and sites within their assigned area.
Regions
- Greater Boston Region (Boston, Brookline, Chelsea, Winthrop, and Revere areas)
- Central Region (Worcester, Fitchburg, Leominster, and Uxbridge areas)
- Metro West Region (Framingham, Norwood, Weymouth, and Concord areas)
- Northeast Region (Lowell, Haverhill, Lynn, and Gloucester areas)
- West Region (Springfield, Pittsfield, and Greenfield areas)
Essential Job Functions and Responsibilities
- Provide frontline technical assistance and expert advice to staff working in under-resourced substance use disorder (SUD) treatment facilities
- Execute detailed work plans to improve medication management, including storage, disposal, adherence monitoring, error reporting, and patient self-administration
- Provide medication recommendations and guidance to the medical and non-medical staff delivering daily programming and treatment to SUD patients
- Develop and present educational content, curriculum, and trainings to direct care staff, measure outcomes and changes in learner competence and/or performance
- Develop continuing education and certifications for healthcare professionals
- Conduct program evaluations, needs assessments, and medication record audits, and implement targeted solutions at a facility based on the results
- Write medication policies and implement standard operating procedures to improve efficiency, quality, and uniformity of provider performance
- Create high-level process maps and design new protocols to improve medication workflow, reduce miscommunications, and failure to comply with regulations
- Create new forms to improve medication record keeping and clinical documentation
- Advise the care team (nurses, clinicians, counselors, caseworkers) and enable them to confidently deliver the best patient care
- Regularly meet with state regulators to discuss facility performance and recommend continuous quality improvement measures and corrective plans of action
Requirements:
- Degree in pharmacy (PharmD or BS in Pharmacy)
- Registered pharmacist with current license to practice in Massachusetts
- 4+ years of pharmacy experience
- Supervisor/manager or project management experience
- Proficient with Microsoft 365 Suite: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook
- Proven ability to work independently