BlinkRx Pharmacist

As a BlinkRx Pharmacist, you will serve as the clinical backbone of our closed-door facility, ensuring prescription verification with speed and precision while providing proactive patient counseling and collaborating with prescribers to optimize medication access and safety. This role is ideal for pharmacists who thrive in a structured, high-throughput environment and are passionate about improving patient outcomes at scale.

Responsibilities:

Prescription Verification and Dispensing

• Review and clinically verify new and refill prescriptions for therapeutic appropriateness, drug-drug interactions, contraindications, and dosing accuracy.
• Validate prescription data entry performed by pharmacy technicians, ensuring transcription accuracy from provider orders and transfer records.
• Perform pharmacist verification of filled prescriptions in a closed-door fulfillment environment, confirming accuracy of drug, dose, quantity, NDC, and labeling prior to release for shipment.
• Conduct daily prospective drug utilization review (DUR) to identify and resolve clinical flags before fulfillment.
• Manage specialty medication handling requirements, including cold-chain verification.

Patient Care

All patient interactions at BlinkRx are conducted via phone or digital platforms. Pharmacists are the primary clinical contact for patients, delivering high standards of care.

• Provide proactive outbound patient counseling calls for new prescriptions, addressing drug education, expected side effects, dosing instructions, storage requirements, and adherence strategies.
• Handle inbound clinical patient calls related to counseling and clinical inquiries, directing non-clinical inquiries to the patient support team.
• Document all patient interactions thoroughly in the patient profile within the pharmacy management system.
• Support Spanish-speaking patients with bilingual counseling where applicable.

Prescriber Collaboration and Clinical Outreach

• Contact prescriber offices via phone and electronic messaging to clarify incomplete, ambiguous, or clinically inappropriate prescriptions prior to dispensing.
• Partner with prescribers on therapeutic substitutions, DAW overrides, and formulary alternatives to reduce dispensing delays.

Pharmacy Technician Supervision and Workflow Management

• Supervise pharmacy technicians across data entry, prescription processing, packaging, and fulfillment workflows in accordance with state board regulations.
• Conduct real-time quality checks on technician work product, providing immediate corrective feedback to maintain accuracy standards.
• Identify and escalate technician performance trends to pharmacy leadership; participate in coaching and training as directed.

Compliance, Safety and Quality

• Ensure strict compliance with HIPAA, state pharmacy practice acts, federal DEA regulations, and all BlinkRx corporate policies.
• Oversee proper handling, documentation, and destruction of PHI-containing records and materials in alignment with privacy protocols.
• Participate in quality assurance activities including internal audits, prescription error tracking, and near-miss reporting.
• Report adverse drug events and medication errors through established pharmacovigilance channels, when applicable.
• Maintain fulfillment area compliance standards, including proper storage of temperature-sensitive medications.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Collaborate with pharmacy leadership, patient services, clinical, compliance, and technology teams to drive operational and clinical improvements.
• Coordinate with the shipping and fulfillment team to resolve packaging errors, return-to-sender issues, and delivery failures affecting patient medication access.
• Provide clinical input on technology enhancements, workflow tools, and software configurations that affect pharmacist verification or patient counseling experience.
• Participate in team huddles, quality reviews, and department meetings to support continuous improvement initiatives.