Job Description

Job Description

LifePoint Health- Health Support Center

The Senior Medication Management Informaticist is responsible for leading, managing and supporting medication management across LifePoints facilities to achieve comprehensive, contemporary, and reliable pharmaceutical services across the organizations continuum of care.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: To perform this job, an individual must perform each essential function satisfactorily with or without a reasonable accommodation.

* Provide medication management expertise across LifePoints facilities and focus on the automated future state of embedding technology into provider, nurse, and pharmacy workflow as well as clinical processes and clinical data management.
* Lead successful implementation of all technology and clinical projects and effectively communicate and train projects to the clinical community in LifePoint facilities.
* Oversee the build and maintenance of pharmacy-specific databases within Electronic Health Records (EHR), automation devices, and other clinical technology solutions to ensure clinical settings align with current evidence based guidelines.
* Manage continuous improvement initiatives and recommend process flow changes with changing technology.
* Provide clinical and technical oversight on implementations and integrations of Medication Management technology to ensure the process is effective, efficient, and in compliance with LifePoint regulations.
* Reinforce Quality initiatives throughout the Company and recommend system solutions or aids to enhance the program and ensure adherence to a quality driven approach.
* Assist in the review of policies and procedures as impacted by the implementation of technology and other uses of technology at both Health Support Center (HSC) and hospital levels, provide recommendations for change, and ensure execution in a timely manner.
* Perform and document advanced clinical analysis to support business needs such as business development, clinical improvement, member disruption analysis, and program evaluation.
* Responsible for the management and delivery of medication related data, information and knowledge. Responsible for the development and management of medication related reporting & analytics.
* Serves as a partner to clinical informatics and practice for creating technical solutions to medication related problems and improvements.
* May serve as part of the Pharmacy Residency Program. Preceptors will be professionally and educationally qualified individuals who are committed to providing effective training of residents and being exemplary role models for residents. Qualifications and requirements for acting as a preceptor will be found in the Residency Program Department Policy.
* Regular and reliable attendance.
* Perform other duties as assigned.

Additional Information:

Position serves both internal co-workers and external customers, clients, patients, contractors, and vendors.

Access to and / or works with sensitive and / or confidential information.

Exhibit an understanding of healthcare regulatory and compliance (e.g., HIPAA). Skilled in the application of policies and procedures. Knowledge of Business Office Standards and Recommended Practices.

Job Requirements

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES: The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills and/or abilities required.

Education: Bachelors Degree. Pharmacy Degree,

Experience: Minimum 5 years related experience in pharmacy or institutional pharmacy operations.

Certifications: N/A

Licenses: Registered Pharmacist License

Skills and Abilities:

* Business Mathematical Skills -- Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rates, ratios, and percentages and to draw and interpret graphs.
* Advanced Technical Computer Skills -- Utilize complex computer operations (intermediate / advance programming, relational databases, and operating systems) and advanced features of software packages.
* Moderate Communication -- Regularly uses moderately complex oral and written skills. May train others in functional areas, interact with others and make presentations to department or middle management.
* Routine Business Problems -- Problems encountered are routine, somewhat repetitive and generally solved by following clear directions and procedures.
* Job Specific Impact -- Decisions generally affect own job or assigned functional area.
* Moderate Independent Judgement -- Results are defined; sets personal goals and determines how to achieve results with few or no guidelines to follow; supervisor/manager provides broad guidance and overall direction.
* Moderate Planning / Organization -- Handle multiple tasks simultaneously with moderate complexity.

PHYSICAL AND MENTAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job responsibilities.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit for extended periods of time; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, bend, crouch or crawl; talk or hear; taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds. Repetitive motion of upper body required for extended use of computer. Required specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT AND TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS:

Work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that an employee may encounter while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job responsibilities.

In hospital environment, may be exposed to hazards and unusual elements, which may include but are not limited to bloodborne pathogens and / or contagious illnesses, toxic chemicals, and biohazardous materials which may require extensive safety precautions and the use of protective equipment.

Noise level in the work environment is typical for an office and/or hospital environment.

Extensive overnight travel (up to 50%) by land and/or air.

LifePoint Health is committed to providing Equal Employment Opportunities for all applicants and employees and complies with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of color, race, sex, age, religion, national origin, disability, genetic information, gender identity, sexual orientation, veterans status or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law.