Investigational Drug Services Pharmacist

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center•Seattle, WA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is seeking a pharmacist to provide clinical pharmacy services to assigned clinic patients and serve as an integral member of patient care services. The pharmacist provides pharmacotherapeutic recommendations to providers, nursing staff, research staff, and other members of the healthcare team to optimize patient care. Work includes 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 patients access needed medications and provides clinical support and documentation when required. This is a full-time position working Monday through Friday, partially at the South Lake Union location and remotely. The position may be eligible for relocation assistance. Employment offers are conditional on successfully completing pre-employment drug testing.

Requirements

Graduation from an accredited School of Pharmacy.
State of Washington Pharmacist License.
Two years of experience in pharmacy practice; months spent completing an American Society of Health-System Pharmacists-accredited residency 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 that 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 in conjunction with assessment of adherence, disease states, drug interactions, efficacy, and safety.
Serve as a drug information resource for providers, nursing staff, research staff, and patients.
Help patients access specialty medications by providing clinical information to insurers when needed.
Identify patients who are undertreated and optimize drug therapy.
Identify medication adherence barriers and account for patient language, culture, religious practices, physical and cognitive characteristics, emotional needs, pain or discomfort, and socioeconomic status.
Use tools to educate patients on disease and drug therapy self-management.
Review clinic prescribing patterns with clinic staff and develop targeted education to promote consistency with UWP or other nationally recognized guidelines.
As authorized 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; provide nursing in-services; and teach student pharmacists at the University of Washington School of Pharmacy as requested.
Participate in collaborative research projects, submit original work for publication, assist with drug study protocols, and collaborate with investigators in support of investigational drug studies.
Implement and maintain departmental policies and procedures concerning safe and effective medication use.
Evaluate service-specific literature, develop and maintain drug therapy monitoring systems, and establish effective communication among healthcare team members.
Participate in pharmacy and hospital committees and 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 in the oral chemotherapy clinic, infusion pharmacy, and/or retail pharmacy as required.