Investigational Drug Services Pharmacist

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center•Seattle, WA

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is seeking a pharmacist to perform clinical pharmacy services for assigned clinic patients and serve as an integral member of patient care services. The pharmacist provides pharmacotherapeutic recommendations to providers, nursing, research staff, and other healthcare team members to optimize patient care. Work includes direct patient care, drug dispensing, research, education, and practice management. The pharmacist will work with the specialty pharmacy team to help patients access needed medications and provide clinical support and documentation when required. This is a full-time role working Monday through Friday, partially at the South Lake Union location and remotely. The position may be eligible for relocation assistance. The pharmacist may manage anticoagulation, infectious disease, complementary and alternative, or pain and palliative care therapies under a collaborative drug therapy agreement. Patient care may include therapy initiation, education, short- and long-term monitoring and management, care transitions, and consultations.

Requirements

Graduation from an accredited School of Pharmacy.
Washington State Pharmacist License.
Two years of experience in pharmacy practice; months spent completing an American Society of Health-System Pharmacists-accredited residency 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 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 testing.
Authorize refills in conjunction with assessing adherence, disease states, drug interactions, efficacy, and safety.
Provide drug information to providers, nursing staff, research staff, and patients.
Help ensure patient access to specialty medications by providing clinical information to insurers when needed.
Identify patients who are undertreated and optimize their drug therapy.
Identify barriers to medication adherence, taking into account patient characteristics such as language, culture, religious practices, physical or cognitive needs, emotional factors, pain or discomfort, and socioeconomic status.
Educate patients on disease and drug therapy self-management using appropriate tools.
Review clinic prescribing patterns with clinic staff and develop targeted education to promote consistency with UWP or other nationally recognized guidelines.
When authorized under a collaborative drug therapy agreement, manage anticoagulation, infectious disease, complementary and alternative, or pain and palliative care therapy, including initiation, education, monitoring, management, 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 deliver nursing in-services and provide didactic teaching to University of Washington School of Pharmacy students as requested.
Participate in collaborative research projects with healthcare professionals, pharmacy residents, and student pharmacists.
Submit unique work for publication in professional journals.
Assist with preparation, review, and implementation of drug study protocols as needed.
Collaborate with investigators in support of investigational drug studies.
Implement and maintain departmental policies and procedures for safe and effective medication use.
Evaluate current service-specific literature and develop and maintain drug therapy monitoring systems for patients.
Maintain efficient communication among pharmacists, physicians, nurses, and other healthcare team members.
Participate in pharmacy and hospital committees as requested.
Participate in developing and implementing pharmacy-service quality assurance programs, including medication-error prevention.
Perform drug utilization evaluations and cost-containment analyses as needed.
Perform dispensing pharmacist duties in oral chemotherapy clinic, infusion pharmacy, and/or retail pharmacy as required.