Job Title: IT Application Analyst – Pharmacist (100% REMOTE)
Schedule: Remote 5X8; 8AM-5PM AZ Time
Duration: 24 weeks
Beacon and Willow certified with Epic build experience
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Job Summary:
Under the direction of Leadership, the IT Applications Analyst Pharmacist is responsible to empower our community through the
continuous development, deployment, and support of vendor proprietary enterprise application software. The Application Analyst
Pharmacist supports software that is necessary to run clinical, financial, or business systems within a large integrated health
system. This position works on the analysis of existing and proposed vendor supplied software functionality to determine if the
software conforms to current clinical health system workflow processes. The Application Analyst Pharmacist is a high performing
individual who collaborates with business operations to understand and define system requirements to develop innovative solutions
meeting the customers’ needs.
The Application Analyst Pharmacist is responsible to understand and conform to HonorHealth’s project and change management
methodologies and may be responsible for leading low to moderate complexity projects leveraging this framework. In addition, this
position requires an on-call rotation facilitating off hour work functions in support of incidents, upgrades, patches, and project task
fulfillment.
Job Qualifications:
Required:
– Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy Sciences from an ACPE-accredited college of pharmacy
– Registered Pharmacist (RPh) – Certification for assigned application should be obtained within designated time
frame per policy. Arizona Board of Pharmacy License within 6 months of hire date.
– 3+ years of Healthcare, consulting, or IT related experience that demonstrates an advanced understanding of the
standard tools, workflow processes, and/or procedures and concepts used in the deployment and
development of application software necessary to run the healthcare systems business, clinical or financial
systems.
Preferred:
– PharmD degree in Pharmacy Sciences from an ACPE-accredited college of pharmacy
– Registered Pharmacist (RPh) AZ LICENSE REQUIRED WITHIN FIRST 6 MONTHS OF ASSIGNMENT – Certification Training and/or certification in assigned
application. Certification or licensure for clinical, revenue cycle, or business unit that primary application supports. Epic certification as applicable for assigned team.
– 5+ years of Healthcare, consulting, or IT related experience that demonstrates an advanced understanding of the
standard tools, workflow processes, and/or procedures and concepts used in the deployment and
development of application software necessary to run the healthcare systems business, clinical or financial
systems.
Job Responsibilities:
Utilizes knowledge of medications and pharmacy workflows to troubleshoot low to moderate complexity end-user issues, workflow problems, and enhancement requests for departmental users, associated medical staff, key stakeholders, management and leadership. Contributes to technical and workflow root cause analysis.
Acts as a consultant to healthcare professionals regarding utilization of pharmaceutical therapies and participates in
Network committees and quality improvement initiatives as directed.
Provides education and support for the implementation of projects, programs and pharmacy initiatives (i.e. automation, clinical monitoring, patient education, etc.).
May serve as a preceptor for pharmacy informatics students. Actively participates in the education and training of new pharmacy employees, pharmacy students and pharmacy interns.
Utilizes the appropriate analytic tools and process improvement techniques to assess and improve medication-use processes.
Assesses published literature and/or database sources to identify best practices and/or guidelines relevant to appropriate medication-use and identifies opportunities for pharmaceutical related changes.
Analyze business operations as they relate to design decisions and prioritize and implement requested changes to the system. On an as needed basis, performs in-depth analyzes of workflows, data collection, report details, and othertechnical issues associated with the use of integrated applications with minimal assistance.
Design, Test, Implement and support files/systems within assigned products and scope with minimal supervision.
Populates tables and databases, for a domain with multiple owners, with some assistance from Vendor and
Information Technology staff. Collaborates in an integrated approach to eliminate the potential for a negative impact to our customers and patients.
Responsible for maintaining set standards of application system build and database maintenance. Including updates to master files, profiles, dictionaries, and other databases. Assists with recommendations for standardized naming,
numbering and security conventions.
• 30%
Demonstrates excellent interpersonal, organizational and communication skills. Communicates effectively (written and oral) across all levels of the organization and has the ability to determine the appropriate forum for each method.
Develops effective working relationships across HonorHealth and with vendor applications support personnel.
Demonstrates the ability to prioritize and manage individual workload with minimal assistance. Collaborates effectively with team members to adjust priorities based on business needs.Assists with the change management, project management, and documentation policies and standards, established by
the Information Technology Department and Project Management Office for maintenance, requests and new initiatives.
May lead low to moderate complexity projects as assigned.
Understands and utilizes the IT Project Management toolset for the successful completion of initiatives.
• 10% Understands and follows established change management procedures for testing, documenting, and communicating system changes.
