Clinical Pharmacist - Oncology Specialist

LCMC Health•New Orleans, LA

9d•Onsite

About The Position

This role is more than just a job; it's an opportunity to provide patient-focused services, specializing in pharmaceutical care for patients receiving chemotherapy. The Clinical Pharmacist - Oncology Specialist will evaluate chemotherapy regimens for appropriateness, dose, dosage form, route, therapeutic duplication, and drug interactions. This position involves collaborating with prescribers on medication order changes, documenting these changes, and informing relevant parties. Responsibilities include providing patient consultations for chemotherapy and drug information, detecting, monitoring, documenting, and reporting adverse drug reactions and medication errors. The role also focuses on developing, monitoring, and maintaining oncology services, collaborating with physicians, pharmacy leadership, nursing, and laboratory staff. Key aspects include developing interventional strategies to optimize chemotherapy utilization, improving patient outcomes through guidelines and pathways, and managing formulary. Establishing systems to monitor chemotherapy utilization and effectiveness is crucial. The role involves identifying opportunities for improvement in chemotherapy use, lab monitoring, and communication through medication use evaluations and prospective audits. Active participation in hematology/oncology and pharmacy and therapeutics committees is expected, along with performing formulary evaluations and presenting findings. Documentation of all activities for cost savings and outcome purposes, as well as ongoing education of hospital and pharmacy staff, are integral to this position. Collaboration with staff to resolve problems and foster teamwork for high-quality care is essential. The role requires an understanding of medical record documentation, TJC standards, State Board of Pharmacy requirements, and departmental/hospital policies. General duties encompass directing and implementing clinical pharmacy services, providing clinical consultation, communicating and documenting interventions, and performing staff duties as needed. Collaboration and education of healthcare providers, development of clinical guidelines and protocols, and committee membership are also key components. The role also supports Specialty Pharmacy accreditation, prior authorization navigation, and 340B capture and compliance.

Requirements

2 to 3 years of experience in inpatient pharmacy hospital/clinical capacity
Currently licensed or registered to practice pharmacy in Louisiana.
Pharm.D.
PGY 1 Residency Program

Nice To Haves

Board Certification in the applicable specialty area preferred.
PGY 2 in Oncology, preferred

Responsibilities

Participates in the provision of patient-focused services.
Provides pharmaceutical care to patients receiving chemotherapy.
Evaluates chemotherapy regimens for appropriateness of use, dose, dosage form, regimen, route, therapeutic duplication, and drug interactions.
Discusses medication order changes/clarifications with the prescribers, documents any changes in patient and pharmacy records, and informs others of medication order changes.
Provides patient consultations as requested for chemotherapy and drug information.
Detects, monitors, documents, and reports adverse drug reactions and medication errors.
Develop, monitor, and maintain oncology services.
Collaborates with hematology/oncology physicians, pharmacy clinical directors/managers, nursing, clinical laboratory staff, and other healthcare professionals.
Develop interventional strategies to optimize appropriate chemotherapy utilization.
Improve patient outcomes by creating oncology guidelines, clinical pathways, restriction criteria, policy development, new laboratory methods, and formulary management.
Establishes a means to report and monitor ongoing chemotherapy utilization and identified metrics showing the effectiveness of oncology services.
Identify opportunities for improvement regarding chemotherapy use, lab monitoring, and communication, including but not limited to performing medication use evaluations (MUEs or QA) and conducting prospective audits.
Actively participates on the hematology/oncology committees, pharmacy and therapeutics committees, and other appointed committees as needed.
Performs formulary evaluation and chemotherapy class reviews for anti-neoplastic agents and presents to the P&T committee.
Documentation of all activities/ interventions for cost savings and outcome purposes.
Collaboration and ongoing education of hospital and pharmacy department staff.
Collaborates with hospital and pharmacy staff to insure timely resolution of problems and questions.
Fosters teamwork and takes responsibility to ensure delivery of high-quality care.
Provides ongoing education to hospital staff and pharmacists by developing educational material and competencies and providing in-services as needed.
Demonstrates awareness and understanding of documenting information in the medical record, TJC standards, and State Board of Pharmacy requirements.
Demonstrates awareness and understanding of departmental and hospital policies, and health-system initiatives.
Directs and initiates development, implementation and maintenance of clinical pharmacy services.
Provides clinical consultation to the Medical Staff and other health care providers within the appropriate team or unit(s), suggests appropriate cost-effective therapeutic alternatives as needed.
Communicates and documents all activities/interventions (i.e., medication order changes/clarifications with the prescriber, pharmacokinetic dosing/monitoring, adverse drug reactions and errors etc.).
Performs staff duties as needed.
Collaborates with all health care providers to ensure timely resolution of concerns and questions.
Provides ongoing education and timely drug information to physicians, nursing, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals by developing educational materials and competencies and providing in-services as needed.
Facilitates the development and implementation of treatment guidelines, pathways, protocols, formulary changes, medication use evaluations, and any other appropriate drug information reports as approved by the appropriate committee(s).
Actively participates on clinical committees including pharmacy and therapeutics committee and other appointed committees as needed.
Acts as a liaison to other healthcare practitioners.
Fosters a good working relationship with physicians, medical staff, nursing, and other healthcare professionals.
Ensures compliance with ACHC and URAC Specialty Pharmacy Accreditation Standards and participates in audit, quality improvement projects and ongoing accreditation readiness activities.
Lead and support completion of prior authorizations and appeals.
Collaborate with providers, payers and patient access teams and maintain current knowledge of payer policies and formulary restrictions.
Ensure prescriptions align with 340B patient definition, eligible providers and covered entity sites; partners with 340b operations team and document clinical workflows that directly impact 340B compliance outcomes.

Benefits

LCMC Health is a community. Our people make health happen.
While our NOLA roots run deep, our branches are the vessels that carry our mission of bringing the best possible care to every person and parish in Louisiana and beyond and put a little more heart and soul into healthcare along the way.
Celebrating authenticity, originality, equity, inclusion and a little “come on in” attitude is the foundation of LCMC Health’s culture of everyday extraordinary
University Medical Center, a world class academic medical center in LCMC Health’s incredible community of care, is the largest medical training center for healthcare professionals in Louisiana and has long served as the region’s safety net hospital for poor and underserved communities for 300+.
Learn more about University Medical Center’s legacy and our vision of becoming the epicenter of medical care, education, and research.
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