Pharmacist, Pharmacy Solutions (Hybrid)

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn. 

The primary role is to function as a Licensed Pharmacist engaged in pharmacy practice. The position is responsible for the pharmacy's daily operations, including preparing, dispensing, and delivering medications, providing pharmaceutical care to patients, and interacting with healthcare professionals to ensure safe and effective medication therapy. This practice of pharmacy may include but is not limited to:

• Patient counseling, dispensing of drugs, monitoring appropriate drug use, providing drug information, and ensuring proper documentation and record keeping for all prescriptions. Providing information on therapeutic values, reactions, drug interactions, and side effects; supervising licensed pharmacy technicians assisting in pharmacy practice; complying with Federal, State, and local pharmacy laws and HIPAA guidelines, carrying out interventions when appropriate, adding recommendations in patient notes.

Responsibilities:

• Receive, review, and process prescription orders
• Review and assess therapy for each prescription to determine therapeutic appropriateness
• Interact with Patient Care Coordinators, pharmacy technicians, PSPs, and other clinicians to coordinate medication preparation and delivery
• Consult patients regarding patient medication and administration of drugs
• Interact with patients, physicians, and third-party providers
• Knowledge, understanding, and compliance with all federal, state, and local regulations that govern the practice of pharmacy, as well as HIPAA policies and procedures
• Provide clinical and pharmaceutical education and in-service training for staff
• Manage, disinfect, and clean returned medical devices.
• Processes medical device returns and conducts functional testing on devices as appropriate
• The position requires to complete role-based training requirements, including passing certifications and competency assessments before the conclusion of the training period
• Maintain a work environment that upholds privacy standards required by law and AbbVie compliance practices

• Bachelor or PharmD degree in Pharmacy from an accredited pharmacy program is required.
• A valid Pharmacy License in the State of Illinois is required. A multi-state Pharmacy license is a plus.
• Two years of experience as a registered pharmacist is required, with experience in specialty pharmacy, infusion pharmacy, or hospital pharmacy preferred.
• Must be comfortable interacting with patients and health care providers to provide drug information, advice, and counseling.
• Must be willing and able to handle on-call rotations for after-hours patient coverage as per business needs.
• The position has an on-call rotation schedule that is held every six months. 
• Must demonstrate excellent customer service and communication skills.
• The position is at Lake County Site, IL, and the schedule will be a hybrid of working from home and onsite. 
• Flexibility to work outside regular working hours as per business needs.

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​​

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.​

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs​

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Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. 

AbbVie is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion.  It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.