Pharmacy Manager -Ambulatory Care Clinical Pharmacy Manager

Cedars Sinai•Beverly Hills, CA

53d•$74 - $134

About The Position

The Ambulatory Care Clinical Manager at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California will serve as a clinical leader and subject matter expert in specialty and infusion therapies, overseeing ambulatory care clinical pharmacy activities. This role provides strategic and operational leadership for Cedars-Sinai's ambulatory and specialty pharmacy clinical programs, including the Pharmacotherapy Clinic and infusion therapy services. This role is responsible for developing and maintaining standardized, evidence-based clinical protocols, ensuring pharmacist competency, and promoting excellence in medication management across all ambulatory care sites. The clinical manager collaborates closely with the Specialty Pharmacy to optimize prescribing practices, internalize specialty prescriptions, and prevent external leakage by strengthening coordination between clinic-based pharmacists and pharmacy operations. A key responsibility includes advancing pharmacists billing for ambulatory care and clinic-based services, in accordance with California Assembly Bill 317 (AB-317). Through partnership with physicians and interdisciplinary teams, this role enhances patient access, continuity of care, and overall clinical and financial performance. The clinical manager also supports program development, quality improvement, regulatory compliance, and financial stewardship to ensure alignment with Cedars-Sinai's mission of delivering safe, high-quality, and patient-centered pharmacy services.

Requirements

Graduate Degree - Graduate of an accredited School of Pharmacy - Minimum.
California Pharmacist license - required
Advanced Practice Pharmacist License -- required
Board certification in a relevant area of practice (e.g. Ambulatory Care, Pharmacotherapy, Oncology, or other specialty areas) - required
Previous clinical and operational experience in ambulatory care or specialty pharmacy management.
Demonstrated expertise in specialty disease areas such as Oncology, Immunology, or Inflammatory Diseases, with in-depth knowledge of therapeutic options, treatment guidelines and patient management strategies.
Patient Experience: Proven ability to care for patients with complex conditions requiring individualized and multi-disciplinary therapeutic regimens.
Team Skills: Collaborates effectively with internal teams and stakeholders to achieve program goals.
Analytical: Apply critical thinking to analyze and interpret information and/or data. Ability to analyze qualitative and quantitative information for decision support.
Analytical: Demonstrates good decision-making/problem solving skills. Exhibits good clinical reasoning skills and judgments in managing patients with the highest medical complexity/acuity.
Communication: Ability to convey and/or receive written/verbal information to/from various audiences in different formats. Communicates effectively and engages in positive inter/intra departmental interaction with peers, physicians, staff and patients.
Documentation: Demonstrates the ability to accurately and promptly document all clinical interventions, assessments, and therapy changes in the patient's Electronic Health Record (EHR).
Project Management: Initiate, plan, design, implement, and monitor project(s) Ability to manage projects, establish timeliness, analyze data relevant to areas of responsibility. Ability to function independently, ability to plan, organize, direct, monitor and evaluate assigned work.
Regulatory: Ability to interpret and apply knowledge of State, Federal and Agency standards to comply with regulations.
Technical: Ability to learn and adapt to the use of software, technology, and automated information systems in daily practice.

Nice To Haves

Completion of an ASHP accredited residency program

Responsibilities

Serve as a clinical leader and subject matter expert in specialty and infusion therapies.
Oversee ambulatory care clinical pharmacy activities.
Provide strategic and operational leadership for Cedars-Sinai's ambulatory and specialty pharmacy clinical programs, including the Pharmacotherapy Clinic and infusion therapy services.
Develop and maintain standardized, evidence-based clinical protocols.
Ensure pharmacist competency.
Promote excellence in medication management across all ambulatory care sites.
Collaborate closely with the Specialty Pharmacy to optimize prescribing practices, internalize specialty prescriptions, and prevent external leakage by strengthening coordination between clinic-based pharmacists and pharmacy operations.
Advance pharmacists billing for ambulatory care and clinic-based services, in accordance with California Assembly Bill 317 (AB-317).
Enhance patient access, continuity of care, and overall clinical and financial performance through partnership with physicians and interdisciplinary teams.
Support program development, quality improvement, regulatory compliance, and financial stewardship to ensure alignment with Cedars-Sinai's mission of delivering safe, high-quality, and patient-centered pharmacy services.