Pharmacist - WCMC Pharmacy - Full Time - 10 Hour - Variable

John Muir Health • Walnut Creek, CA

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About The Position

Pharmacists support the safe, effective, timely, and cost-effective use of medications through medication order verification, optimal drug product selection, dosage regimen design, effective administration, and drug therapy monitoring. They work with patients, families, and other healthcare providers to support continuity of care and desired patient outcomes. Pharmacists supervise pharmacy technicians and may assume essential pharmacy management responsibilities in a manager’s absence. They lead pharmacy services in a clinical or operational area of the health system and provide expertise and oversight to that area and its staff.

Ambulatory Care Pharmacists work with patients and healthcare providers to promote safe and effective medication use. They perform comprehensive medication reviews; adjust and order medications under collaborative practice agreements; identify and deprescribe unnecessary or harmful medications; provide extensive education; and offer clinical expertise in the Refill Clinic. Listed clinic areas include Palliative Care, Comprehensive Care Clinic (Internal Medicine), Anticoagulation Clinic, and Refill Clinic.

This position is full-time, with variable shifts. The schedule is four days per week, ten hours per day, with work hours that may include nights, weekends, and holidays. The listed shift is 10:00–21:00. The pay range is $91.56–$123.60 per hour; offers are based on relevant experience and/or licensure, and pay may be adjusted to the local market for hires outside the Bay Area.

Requirements

• Completion of an ACPE-accredited School of Pharmacy program.
• Registered Pharmacist (RPH) license from the California Board of Pharmacy.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from the American Heart Association.
• For informatics pharmacy: ASHP-accredited residency in Information Technology; at least two years of clinical experience in a hospital setting or recent hospital clinical information technology experience with pharmacy informatics knowledge; strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills; understanding of pharmacy distribution and workflow; knowledge of hospital clinical and ancillary service procedures and interdepartmental relationships; project management and deadline-management ability; ability to maintain effective working relationships with hospital staff and physicians at all levels; and competency using PC hardware and software.
• For pediatric pharmacy: ability to educate, monitor, order, and follow laboratory tests relevant to pediatric and neonatal patients; willingness to work varied hours, days, weekends, and shifts and rotate through all pharmacy areas.
• For ambulatory care pharmacy: basic knowledge of chronic disease states and common treatments; ability to educate, monitor, order, and follow laboratory tests for medications used in disease-state management; and willingness to work in all ambulatory care clinic settings.
• Work a variable shift that may include nights, weekends, and holidays.

Nice To Haves

• Completion of an ASHP-accredited General Practice Residency (PGY1).
• Healthcare acute-care experience.
• For oncology pharmacy: experience in hematology/oncology; basic knowledge of solid tumors, hematology, and common treatments; ability to educate, monitor, order, and follow laboratory tests for chemotherapy regimens; prior inpatient pharmacy or infusion center experience; prior oncology pharmacy experience; willingness to work varied hours, days, weekends, and shifts; and willingness to rotate to all pharmacy areas.
• For pediatric pharmacy: completion of a PGY-1 residency that included pediatric and neonatal pharmacy services, or prior experience in pediatric and neonatal pharmacy services; willingness to work varied hours, days, weekends, and shifts; and willingness to rotate to all pharmacy areas.
• For critical care pharmacy: completion of an ASHP-accredited General Practice Residency (PGY1); completion of an ASHP-accredited Critical Care Residency (PGY2) or critical-care experience; Critical Care Board certification (BCCCP) or critical-care experience; strong knowledge of critical care medicine and therapeutics; and willingness to rotate to other pharmacy areas.
• For ambulatory care pharmacy: prior experience in an ambulatory care clinic setting and disease-state management; completion of an ASHP-accredited General Practice Residency (PGY1); and an Advanced Practice Pharmacist (APh) license.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification from the American Heart Association; required by 3/31/20 for staff working unit-based shifts.
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certification from the American Heart Association, required for staff working pediatric unit-based shifts and Emergency Department unit-based shifts.

Responsibilities

• Verify medication orders and assess drug selection, dosage regimen, administration, and monitoring for appropriate therapy.
• Collaborate with patients, families, and healthcare providers to support continuity of care and desired patient outcomes.
• Supervise pharmacy technicians and, when needed, assume essential pharmacy management responsibilities in a manager’s absence.
• Lead pharmacy services in an assigned clinical or operational area and provide expertise and oversight to the area and its staff.
• For Ambulatory Care: complete comprehensive medication reviews; adjust and order medications under collaborative practice agreements; identify and deprescribe unnecessary or harmful medications; educate patients; and provide clinical expertise in the Refill Clinic.
• For specialty assignments where applicable, educate and monitor patients, order and follow relevant laboratory tests, and work in or rotate among pharmacy areas as specified.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed