Pharmacy Community Health Worker

Salary starting at $44,100 MAJOR FUNCTION The primary intended outcomes of creating a new CHW position is to :

• Enroll patients into the BMS hypertension grant by providing or facilitating the provision of BP cuffs to patients.
• Support the Director of Pharmacy,Lead Clinical Pharmacist, and Clinical Pharmacists in managing patient encounters Support the Director of Pharmacy and Lead Clinical Pharmacist in ensuring patients remain compliant with pharmacy-specific Uniform Data System (UDS) measures, such as management with aspirin and cholesterol lowering medications Support the Director of Pharmacy and the Pharmacist in Charge in maintaining a prescription capture rate as determined and approved by the Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee Support the Director of Pharmacy Services and the Lead Clinical Pharmacist in carrying out new clinical pharmacy initiatives.
• Work alongside the patient navigator with appropriate cross-training to most effectively support all clinical pharmacy services, which includes but is not limited to, scheduling new patient visits, scheduling follow-up visits, and placing appointment reminder calls.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS Primary Role :

Austin Pharmacy Department and enrollment into the Appointment-Based Model (ABM) and medication compliance packaging program Follow-up with specific tasks for patients identified through UDS reports (e.g. scheduling a patient for onsite BP check, placing obesity order group in chart) Secondary Role :

Austin Pharmacy Staff with maintaining the target capture rate as determined and approved by the Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee to improve medication compliance Contact patients to remind them to pick up their medications Contact patients to sign up for delivery services   ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES :

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