Clinical Oncology Pharmacist - Northwest

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center•Seattle, WA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is seeking a Clinical Oncology Pharmacist to join their patient care services team. This role involves providing pharmacotherapeutic recommendations to healthcare providers, nursing, and research staff to optimize patient care. Responsibilities include direct patient care, medication dispensing, research, education, and practice management for a specific patient population. The pharmacist will collaborate with the specialty pharmacy team to ensure patient access to necessary medications and provide clinical support and documentation as needed. This is a Full Time position based at the Northwest Hospital clinic location, operating Monday through Friday.

Requirements

Graduation from an accredited School of Pharmacy
State of Washington Pharmacist License
Two years of experience in pharmacy practice (months spent in the completion of an American Society of Health-System Pharmacists accredited residency training program may substitute month-for-month for the experience)

Nice To Haves

Doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) degree, or equivalent, from an accredited School of Pharmacy

Responsibilities

Collaborate with providers to individualize drug therapies promoting safe, effective, and economical patient care.
Perform comprehensive medication therapy review and other activities as necessary to ensure safe transitions of care.
Assume responsibility for monitoring and modifying the drug regimen when referred, to include the ordering and interpretation of laboratory testing.
Provide refill authorization in conjunction with assessment of adherence, disease states, drug interactions, efficacy, and safety.
Act as a drug information resource to providers, nursing staff, research staff, and patients.
Ensure patient access to specialty medications by assisting with providing required clinical information to insurers when needed.
Identify patients with indications for drug therapy who are under-treated and optimize drug therapy.
Identify barriers to adherence to medication regimen, incorporating patient characteristics (e.g., language, culture/religious practices, physical, cognitive, emotional, pain/discomfort, socioeconomic status).
Utilize tools in educating the patient on self-management of disease and drug therapy.
Review clinic prescribing patterns with clinic staff to design targeted education to promote consistency with UWP guidelines (or other nationally recognized guidelines when needed).
Manage anticoagulation therapy, infectious disease therapy, complementary and alternative therapy, or pain/palliative care for clinic patients under a collaborative drug therapy agreement.
Provide primary preceptorship of pharmacy residents and student pharmacists.
Provide education to medical/surgical residents, nursing staff, and medical students.
Present at educational conferences to multidisciplinary staff, as requested.
Develop and provide nursing in-services.
Provide didactic teaching to 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 in professional journals.
Assist in the preparation, review, and implementation of drug study protocols.
Collaborate with investigators in support of investigational drug studies.
Implement and maintain departmental policies and procedures related to the safe and effective use of medications.
Routinely evaluate current updates in service-specific literature.
Develop and maintain drug therapy monitoring systems for patients.
Establish and maintain efficient lines of communication between pharmacists, physicians, nurses, and other members of the health care team.
Participate in pharmacy and hospital committees as requested.
Participate in the development and implementation of quality assurance programs for pharmacy services, including, but not limited to, prevention of medication errors.
Perform drug utilization evaluation and cost containment analyses, as needed.
Perform duties of a dispensing pharmacist (oral chemo clinic, infusion pharmacy, and/or retail pharmacy) as required.