Senior Analyst, Medication Management

EEOC Statement

"Lifepoint Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Lifepoint Health is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity for all applicants and employees and complies with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination and harassment in employment."

You must be authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship.

WORK ENVIRONMENT AND TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS: 

• This position is: Remote

• Travel requirements: Up to 20% travel to Facilities and/or HSC

POSITION SUMMARY: 

The Medication Management Informaticist is responsible for medication management knowledge and expertise across LifePoint's facilities and focuses on the automated future state of embedding technology into provider, nurse, and pharmacy workflow as well as clinical processes.   

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:  

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

• Implement all technology and clinical projects and effectively communicate and train projects to the clinical and pharmacy community. 

• Provide process flow guidance to the pharmacists, providers, and other clinicians across the organization, ensuring a common approach assisting with facility pharmacy/medication set up and continuous improvement in the Pharmacy Information System and/or Health information system.   

• Build, modify, and maintain pharmacy specifics in Electronic Health Record (EHR) system or other technology. 

• Manage optimization initiatives and recommend process flow changes.   

• Engage and technically support clinical and pharmacy community on implementations and integrations of Medication Management technology to ensure the process is effective, efficient, and in compliance with LifePoint regulations.

• Support 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. 

• 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 a comprehensive 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. 

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

Supervise the work of others, including planning, assigning and scheduling work, reviewing work and ensuring quality standards, training staff and overseeing productivity. May offer recommendations for hiring, termination and pay adjustments, but do not have final responsibility for making these decisions. 

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

Education: Bachelor's Degree or Doctor of Pharmacy 

Experience: Minimum 3 years in pharmacy or institutional pharmacy operations. 

Certifications:   

Licenses: Pharmacist

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. 

• Moderate Computers Skills -- Frequent use of electronic mail, word processing, data entry, spreadsheets, graphics, etc. Ability to create, maintain and incorporate simple functions into documents, spreadsheets, databases, and presentations to support business objectives. 

• 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. 

• Job Specific Impact -- Decisions generally affect own job or assigned functional area.

• Routine Business Problems -- Problems encountered are routine, somewhat repetitive and generally solved by following clear directions and procedures. 

• Moderate Independent Judgement -- Results are defined; sets personal own 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. 

Lifepoint Health is a leader in community-based care and driven by a mission of Making Communities Healthier. Our diversified healthcare delivery network spans 29 states and includes 63 community hospital campuses, 32 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, and more than 170 additional sites of care across the healthcare continuum, such as acute rehabilitation units, outpatient centers and post-acute care facilities. We believe that success is achieved through talented people. We want to create places where employees want to work, with opportunities to pursue meaningful and satisfying careers that truly make a difference in communities across the country.