Per Diem Pharmacist

Per Diem/On-Call People Oriented Pharmacist

A Welcome Addition to Our In-House Pharmacy

We are seeking an experienced Per Diem Pharmacist to enhance our dynamic and impressive Pharmacy team! The chosen candidate should possess a great attitude, a passion for learning, a commitment to helping others and excellent customer service.  The Per Diem Pharmacist is responsible for implementing the pharmaceutical activities of HOPES and overseeing the Pharmacy Technicians.

Northern Nevada HOPES is a community health and wellness center serving the Northern Nevada area.  We are a non-profit community health center located in a historic and quaint area of downtown Reno, Nevada. Our expert care teams provide integrated medical and wellness services to individuals and families in our community. We welcome everyone, and meet them wherever they are, providing a safe and accepting place to access comprehensive, patient-centered healthcare services.  Comprehensive, integrated care is the cornerstone of the patient-centered medical home; Northern Nevada HOPES has a robust offering of services and collaborates with other service providers in the community to ensure our patients have a comprehensive, well-rounded program to meet their individual health and wellness needs.  The medical home model holds promise as a way to improve health care in America by transforming how primary care is organized and delivered.  At HOPES we understand there are many determinants of health and that a range of personal, social, economic, and environmental factors influence health.

Important things to know about us:

• We are a certified Patient-Centered Medical Home, recognized by the National Commission on Quality Assurance
• We are a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC). The mission of all FQHCs is to provide excellent health care services to otherwise under-served populations. We accept most insurance plans, Medicaid, Medicare, and the uninsured. For the uninsured, we offer discounted services based on a sliding fee scale.
• We are a National Health Service Corp site, and our providers are eligible to apply toward a federal loan forgiveness program

We have an impressive team of clinicians and providers and our current clinical and supportive services include:

• Primary medical care for adults, adolescents and children
• Behavioral health counseling
• Psychiatric care
• HIV specialty care
• Medication Assisted Treatment specialty care
• Hepatitis C specialty care
• Transgender specialty care for adults
• Nutrition services
• Comprehensive social support services
• Harm reduction outreach and prevention
• Laboratory, x-ray and pharmacy services on site.

Named one of the Best Places to Work in Northern Nevada 2018, we offer the same attention to ensuring our employees have work/life balance and the opportunity to grow and develop their careers.  We offer a very competitive compensation and a chance to partner with amazing care providers to changes lives.

The Per Diem Pharmacist is responsible for daily clinical functions of the HOPES pharmacy. The clinical pharmacist is responsible for serving patients, preparing and dispensing medications, giving pharmacological information to the patients and to the multidisciplinary team and monitoring patient drug therapies. HOPES has an integrated team model approach to patient care. Part of the clinical pharmacist’s responsibility may include participation in organization wide Patient Centered Medical Home activities to enhance patient care. As quality is every employee’s responsibility, the Clinical Pharmacist is required to uphold all standards and policies, and participate in quality improvement processes and meetings.

We’re looking for:

• Pharm D Licensed in the state of Nevada.
• Two or more years of pharmacy-retail experience.
• Experience working with HIV population and HIV medications preferred.
• Ability to supervise medication purchases for all programmatic inventories.
• Ability to maintain daily perpetual inventory.
• Must check/fill prescriptions in accordance with Nevada State and Federal law.
• Ability to counsel patients regarding their medications including but not limited to adherence, side effects, drug interactions, dosing schedules, etc.
• Excellent customer service and client relation skills.
• Don’t be a jerk . . . because the Pharmacy team needs you to be compassionate as well as having excellent interpersonal/customer service skills for your customers and your co-workers!
• The Per Diem Pharmacist will enhance the lives of everyone on our already awesome and super busy team . . . really!!! This amazing team needs you to possess a great attitude, have a passion for life-long learning, embrace feedback while demonstrating a suburb commitment to helping one another, and provide extraordinary service to our esteemed clients.
• We think it’s super important that you have the ability to understand and respond with appropriate sensitivity to special populations including LGBTQ, homeless, IDU, Sex Workers.
• Bi-lingual is DEFINITELY a plus!

If you are passionate about your work and want to serve our fantastic clients along side an amazing team, send your resume to the hiring team at Northern Nevada HOPES and help us understand why you are the best candidate for this position.  We aren’t looking for a standard cover letter and CV because we’re not looking for the standard candidate.  We’re looking for someone who has the passion and ability to create life changing moments!  Tell us about your accomplishments, feature all your awards, and share with us your proven ability to exert positive influence and change lives. We’d welcome the opportunity to hear about how you used creative problem-solving to help others or how you have worked through barriers to help others.  Tell us your philosophy, what inspires you and how you will demonstrate all your wonderful abilities at Northern Nevada HOPES.