Pharmacist
About The Position
RCCA is seeking an experienced, patient-focused Pharmacist to join its Belleville team. The role involves providing high-quality patient care, ensuring medication safety, and collaborating with healthcare professionals in an oncology environment. The Pharmacist prepares and dispenses medications, reviews prescriptions and patient profiles for completeness and compatibility, ensures insurance approval and accurate medication preparation, counsels patients, and provides pharmacological information to healthcare professionals and patients. The role also includes coordinating pharmacy technician workflow, maintaining drug and inventory records, supporting teaching and in-service programs, and complying with legal, professional, safety, and confidentiality requirements. This is a full-time position in Belleville, New Jersey, scheduled Monday through Friday. The stated annual compensation range is $111,416.97 to $171,410.72, with packages based on skills, experience, and qualifications. RCCA describes its benefits package as subject to eligibility requirements.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited school of pharmacy.
- B-Corp certification.
- Oncology background.
- Current Pharmacist license in the state of practice.
Responsibilities
- Prepare and dispense medication orders.
- Maintain and evaluate patient profiles and comprehensive drug data files to assess medication orders for incompatibilities.
- Check orders for completeness, verify patient information, and confirm proper physician authorization.
- Ensure insurance approval before admixing; accurately and promptly admix drugs in accordance with department guidelines and prepare drugs within OSHA and interoffice guidelines.
- Ensure correct preparation of formulas and medications.
- Check prescriptions for completeness and calculate correct dosages, including conversions between metric and apothecary equivalents.
- Organize and direct technician workflow; verify technician preparation and labeling of pharmaceuticals, order entries, charges, and inspections.
- Provide pharmacological information in response to questions and requests from healthcare professionals and patients.
- Provide and document drug counseling for patients.
- Ensure compliance with legal and professional requirements, including those concerning controlled substances.
- Consult with patients about pre-existing conditions to assess medication compatibility.
- Instruct patients on the effects of food and alcohol intake, warn about potential side effects, and provide drug information and assistance to medical staff.
- Participate in pharmacy teaching and in-service programs.
- Properly dispose of materials used when mixing chemotherapy and non-chemotherapy IVs.
- Log and date drugs in use, check for expired drugs monthly, and maintain accurate temperature logs.
- Maintain accurate logs for protocol drugs and patient assistance drugs.
- Assist with medication inventory control, order supplies and medications, and receive and shelve medications.
- Ensure standard drug supplies are adequately stocked in all departments.
- Prepare labels, file and prepare billing, and compute prices.
- Receive drug education from representatives and stay abreast of new information.
- Maintain confidentiality of information related to patients and medical staff.
- Prepare reports and conduct monitoring activities as directed.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision plans
- Wellness program
- Health savings account
- Flexible spending accounts
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Life insurance
- Short-term disability insurance
- Long-term disability insurance
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Paid Time Off (PTO) and holiday pay
- Tuition discounts with numerous universities
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Job Type
Full-time
