Clinical Oncology Pharmacist - Overlake
About The Position
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is seeking a Clinical Oncology Pharmacist to provide clinical pharmacy services to assigned clinic patients at its Overlake clinic. The pharmacist is an integral member of patient care services and provides pharmacotherapeutic recommendations to providers, nursing, research staff, and other healthcare team members. The work encompasses direct patient care, drug dispensing, research, education, and practice management for the assigned patient population. The pharmacist also works with the specialty pharmacy team to help ensure patients can access needed medications and provides clinical support and documentation when required. This is a per diem position with a variable Monday-through-Friday schedule. The pharmacist may manage anticoagulation, infectious disease, complementary and alternative, or pain and palliative care therapy under a collaborative drug therapy agreement. Patient care may include therapy initiation, patient education, short- and long-term monitoring and management, care transitions, and consultations. All Fred Hutch employees are expected to demonstrate the organization’s values of collaboration, compassion, determination, excellence, innovation, integrity, and respect. Employment in this pharmacy role is conditional on successfully completing pre-employment drug testing. The hourly pay range is $93.32 to $155.52, including the per diem differential; the amount offered depends on experience and qualifications.
Requirements
- Graduation from an accredited School of Pharmacy.
- State of Washington pharmacist license.
Nice To Haves
- Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree, or equivalent, from an accredited School of Pharmacy.
- Two years of pharmacy practice experience; time spent completing an American Society of Health-System Pharmacists-accredited residency may substitute month-for-month for experience.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with providers to individualize drug therapies and promote safe, effective, and economical patient care.
- Perform comprehensive medication therapy reviews and other activities to support safe transitions of care.
- Monitor and modify drug regimens when referred, including ordering and interpreting laboratory tests.
- Authorize refills after assessing adherence, disease states, drug interactions, efficacy, and safety.
- Provide drug information to providers, nursing staff, research staff, and patients.
- Help patients access specialty medications by providing clinical information required by insurers.
- Identify patients who are undertreated and optimize drug therapy.
- Identify barriers to medication adherence while considering patients’ language, culture, religious practices, physical and cognitive needs, emotional needs, pain or discomfort, and socioeconomic status.
- Use tools to educate patients on disease and medication self-management.
- Review prescribing patterns with clinic staff and develop targeted education to promote consistency with UWP or other nationally recognized guidelines.
- As applicable under a collaborative drug therapy agreement, manage anticoagulation, infectious disease, complementary and alternative, or pain and palliative care therapy, including initiation, education, monitoring, care transitions, and consultations.
- Precept pharmacy residents and student pharmacists.
- Educate medical and surgical residents, nursing staff, and medical students; present at multidisciplinary educational conferences as requested; develop and provide nursing in-services; and teach student pharmacists at the University of Washington School of Pharmacy as requested.
- Participate in collaborative research projects with healthcare professionals, pharmacy residents, and student pharmacists; submit unique work for publication; assist with drug study protocols; and support investigational drug studies with investigators.
- Implement and maintain departmental policies and procedures for safe and effective medication use.
- Evaluate service-specific literature updates and develop and maintain drug therapy monitoring systems.
- Establish and maintain communication among pharmacists, physicians, nurses, and other healthcare team members.
- Participate in pharmacy and hospital committees as requested.
- Help develop and implement pharmacy quality assurance programs, including medication-error prevention.
- Perform drug utilization evaluations and cost-containment analyses as needed.
- Perform dispensing pharmacist duties as required in the oral chemotherapy clinic, infusion pharmacy, and/or retail pharmacy.
Benefits
- Retirement savings plan
- Employee assistance program
- Paid sick leave (one hour for every 30 hours worked)
