Minimum Starting Salary: $46,853 - $48,493

Job Summary: The Medication Management Specialist provides administrative support to sites which provide medication monitoring. Activities include oversight and auditing of med room documentation to assure fidelity to the med monitoring policy and procedures, assisting and supplementing reviewing and ordering refills, entering refills and new medications into med logs/MAR sheets, training new staff on med room procedures and providing periodic refresher trainings, and acting as a liaison between residential site staff and the nurse care manager.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Conduct regular review and auditing of medication room documentation, including Medication Administration Records (MARs), medication logs, and other related documents.
• Assure adherence to medication monitoring policy and procedures, including documentation receipt or refusal of medications, safety procedures related to narcotics, shift change counts of narcotics, receipt of refills, medication storage, disposal or old medications, and others.
• Review medication supply for each resident and create list of medications to be called into the pharmacy for refills.
• Contact the PCP or prescriber to clarify any questions about new, changed or discontinued prescriptions.
• Assist nurse and residential staff to follow-up on post-hospitalization discharge instructions, including a review of newly prescribed medications, changes in dosages, or discontinued medications. Document changes and instructions in resident med files.
• Assist residential staff in the proper disposal of medication per the Medication Monitoring Policy.
• Provide hands-on training new staff on medication room policy and procedures. Re-train staff after a medication error. Complete periodic refresher trainings.
• Train staff to use Narcan, the defibrillator and other life saving measures in case of accidental overdose and/or illness that may require emergency intervention or resuscitation.
• Maintain ETO notes on medications and update as appropriate. Complete audit reports as required, in a timely and thorough manner. Assure that all required documentation meets agency and contract agency standards.
• Participate in staff, team, resident, and case consult meetings as appropriate.

• Participate in regularly scheduled supervision.
• Participate in trainings and continuing education opportunities.

The information contained herein is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job. Management may, at its sole discretion, assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

Minimum Requirements:

• High School diploma and at least 1 year experience in medication management - in the social service or treatment system, pharmacies, or long-term care facilities.
• Ability to be mobile daily across sites.
• Experience in electronic record keeping.

Core Skills:

-Excellent documentation skills, including written and computer skills.

-Excellent listening, communication, collaboration, and teamwork skills.

-Ability to build trusting relationships with people from diverse backgrounds and interpret cross-cultural influences in a helpful manner.

Physical requirements:

Sedentary work that primarily involves sitting/standing. ability to travel across residential sites.

Project HOME provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment, without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Project HOME prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type.