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Position: Pharmacist

Location: San Antonio, TX or Sioux Falls, SD

Employment Type: Full-Time, Exempt (Salaried)

Shift: Days/Evenings/Nights (including weekends and holidays; rotating shifts)

Department: Pharmacy

Reports To: Pharmacy Manager

About this Opportunity:

We are seeking a dedicated and experienced Pharmacist to join our team. In this role, you will provide high-quality pharmaceutical care, ensuring optimal medication-related outcomes to improve patients' quality of life. The ideal candidate will take personal accountability for patient outcomes, collaborate effectively with healthcare professionals, and maintain compliance with industry standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Medication Review: Evaluate prescriber orders for safety, efficacy, and appropriateness for dispensing across multiple EMRs.
• Therapeutic Recommendations: Collaborate with physicians and prescribers to recommend optimal therapy solutions following ASHP standards.
• Drug Information: Provide critical drug-related information to healthcare providers to ensure safe medication practices.
• Patient Counseling: Educate patients on medication usage, side effects, and expected outcomes.
• Age-Specific Care: Demonstrate knowledge of and meet the needs of patients from neonates to geriatrics.
• Documentation: Accurately document all completed tasks within the order management system.
• Customer Focus: Foster excellent relationships with contracted remote facilities and healthcare teams.

Qualifications:

• Education: * Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy or Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree required. * Completion of an ASHP-accredited residency or hospital experience preferred.
• Licensure & Certification: * Pharmacist license in the residing state (required). * Must obtain four additional state licenses within 120 days of hire (specific states to be determined).
• Competencies: * Ethics and Values * Customer Focus * Action-Oriented Approach * Compassion and Composure in High-Stress Situations * Decision Quality and Peer Relationships

Skills and Abilities:

• Communication: Effectively engage with healthcare professionals and patients through verbal and written communication.
• Technology: Proficiency in Windows OS and ability to adapt quickly to new systems and software.
• Reasoning & Problem Solving: Strong critical thinking, multi-tasking abilities, and sound decision-making skills.

Physical Demands:

• Frequent sitting, talking, and hearing required.
• Occasionally required to stand, walk, kneel, and lift objects up to 10 pounds.
• Specific visual abilities including color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:

• Quiet environment but may involve exposure to communicable diseases.
• Must comply with safety standards, federal and state regulations, and Joint Commission requirements.

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What is Avel eCare Pharmacy?

· We are a remote pharmacy service provider with hubs in San Antonio, TX and Sioux Falls, SD serving roughly 170 hospitals across twenty-one states.

· Our Sioux Falls hub opened in 2008 and is currently providing service to roughly 95 hospitals across 13 states.

· Our around the clock medication order review and verification ensure continuity of patient care.

· Providers, nurses and patients have 24/7/365 access to our team of hospital-trained pharmacists electronically, via telephone and through live audiovisual connection.

About Avel eCare

Avel eCare is a nationally recognized telemedicine care provider offering the largest and most comprehensive virtual health networks in the world. Based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Avel operates a multispecialty telemedicine network, partnering with more than 650 health care systems, rural hospitals, outpatient clinics, long-term care facilities, school districts, prisons, skilled nursing facilities and law enforcement agencies to deliver innovative telemedicine care across the country.

During the past three decades, Avel has developed eight distinct telehealth services, —Behavioral Health, Critical Care, Emergency, Hospitalist, Pharmacy, Specialty Care, Senior Care and School Health—in response to needs expressed by the communities and clinicians whom Avel serves. Within the past year alone, Avel’s virtual health care delivery model has impacted the lives of nearly two million patients. The efficiency of these telehealth services have saved health care costs and unnecessary time and travel for patients and physicians. On a national and world level, we are a model of how telehealth presents effective solutions today and tomorrow’s most daunting challenges.

An innovative spirit among Avel eCare employees provided the spark that started Avel eCare’s telemedicine movement and is what continues to fuel our ability to transform the way healthcare is delivered across the world today. When you join the Avel team, you’ll appreciate the dedication, collaboration and support of other highly skilled professionals who work with you onsite in our virtual hospital hub or through our remote workforce.

Mission

Every person and every community deserve access to high quality care. Avel’s experts collaborate with local clinicians through telemedicine, to deliver high quality care when and where it’s needed.

Vision

Avel eCare serves as a catalyst for change. We are creating a future of health care without boundaries through Service, Quality, Collaboration , and Innovation.