Clinical Consultant Pharmacist

The Clinical Consultant provides academic detailing services. Each consultant works from home and has a panel of up to 250 provider offices that they visit in person every 5-6 weeks. This involves visiting 8-10 different practices per day, pre-call planning and running of reports, and documenting your activities in post-call notes. In this regard, the job is much like that of a pharmaceutical manufacturer representative job. However, there are many differences in that you will be more heavily leveraging your skills as a pharmacist to affect changes in prescribing behavior and drive the best use of the patients? benefits. Core job functions include:

? Gain a comprehensive understanding the work flow for the assigned offices, how prescriptions are handled, and their pain-points
? Introduce new service model for high volume practices and insure that offices know how to leverage the program to relieve pain points
? Insure a positive working relationship with the practices
? Use internally generated reports to track the offices? mail utilization, as well as eRx and ePA utilization
? Use tools and materials provided to:
o drive increases in mail utilization by gaining agreement with the physician and/or office staff to advocate for moving patients into more cost-effective channels for their medications ie. mail service,
o optimize offices? use of eRx and ePA
? Serve as a resource in troubleshooting all prescription related issues for the assigned provider practices
? Use internally generated reports to discuss patient specific opportunities to improve quality of care (for example, gaps in care)

This job can be quite rewarding, yet at the same time challenging.

Challenges:
? Provider access - The panel of providers (i.e. call list) contains the highest prescribers in your metropolitan area. Some will have policies in place designed to limit contact by outside representatives. The successful candidate will be expected to overcome access obstacles and achieve baseline activity hurdles. Also, the office staff with be the primary audience for many of your discussions and tend to be more accessible. (You'll get plenty of training and support, but it is not easy!)
? Perception of Isolation - while the job can be extremely social and fun, professionals who gain comfort in going to the same office and establishing relationships with the same core group of co-workers over time could find this position to be a challenge. (You may go weeks, even months without seeing a co-worker. There will be plenty of phone interaction with your manager and teammates as well as opportunities to establish and build friendships/relationships in physician offices, but this takes time.)
? Learning Curve - this role is unique to the profession of pharmacy and chances are that you will be exercising professional "muscles" that you haven't had the opportunity to flex in other positions with any great frequency. Even the most successful Clinical Consultants report that it takes about 6 months to really get comfortable with the role. It typically takes another 6 months to truly master the craft.
? Car Travel - While this is labeled a "home based position", it would be more accurately described as a "car based position". Much of a Clinical Consultant's time is spent behind the wheel, traveling to/from physician offices. Depending on where the Clinical Consultant resides within their territory, it can take as long as 1 ½ hours driving time to reach some offices.
? Administrative Requirements - after a great attitude, communication skills, flexibility and a strong work ethic, organization is the key to success in this role. Clinical Consultants are expected to prepare for their physician visits in advance (pre-call planning) and document follow-up action items/what was learned after each visit (post call-notes). Initially, this can extend the work day and prove a challenge to those lacking discipline or organizational skills.


Required Qualifications:
? 8-9 years as a practicing pharmacist
? Excellent oral and written communication skills
? Strong customer-focus
? Ability to develop persuasive customer presentations
? Detail oriented with a commitment to prompt follow-up
? Self motivated

Preferred Qualifications:

? Previous experience in detailing providers/staff

About Aerotek:

Aerotek, headquartered in Hanover, Md., is a leading provider of technical, professional and industrial staffing services. Established in 1983, Aerotek is an operating company of Allegis Group, the largest provider of staffing services in the U.S. Aerotek operates a network of more than 200 non-franchised offices throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe. For more information, visit .

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