Investigational Drug Services Pharmacist

Fred Hutch Cancer Center; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, WA seeks a Senior Pharmacist to deliver direct patient care and pharmacotherapeutic recommendations within a collaborative care model. The role includes dosing adjustments, medication reviews, and coordination with specialty pharmacy to ensure access to required therapies.

Monday–Friday, hybrid work with some remote responsibilities. Responsibilities cover education, research participation, and drug information support for providers, nurses, and

Qualifications

• Clinical pharmacist with focus on patient care and safety.
• Experience providing pharmacotherapeutic recommendations to providers.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with providers to individualize therapies for patients.
• Conduct comprehensive medication reviews and ensure safe care transitions.
• Monitor drug regimens and interpret lab results for appropriate adjustments.
• Provide refill authorization and assess adherence, interactions, efficacy, and safety.
• Serve as a drug information resource to staff and patients.
• Support access to specialty medications and insurer communications.
• Educate patients and staff on self-management and treatment plans.
• Participate in research projects and publications as requested.

Skills

Clinical Pharmacy

Pharmacotherapy

Patient Care

Drug Information

Job description

Overview

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is an independent, nonprofit organization providing adult cancer treatment and groundbreaking research focused on cancer and infectious diseases. Based in Seattle, Fred Hutch is the only National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center in Washington.

With a track record of global leadership in bone marrow transplantation, HIV/AIDS prevention, immunotherapy and COVID-19 vaccines, Fred Hutch has earned a reputation as one of the world's leading cancer, infectious disease and biomedical research centers. Fred Hutch operates eight clinical care sites that provide medical oncology, infusion, radiation, proton therapy and related services, and network affiliations with hospitals in five states. Together, our fully integrated research and clinical care teams seek to discover new cures to the world's deadliest diseases and make life beyond cancer a reality.

At Fred Hutch we value collaboration, compassion, determination, excellence, innovation, integrity and respect. Our mission is directly tied to the humanity, dignity and inherent value of each employee, patient, community member and supporter. Our commitment to learning across our differences and similarities make us stronger. We seek employees who bring different and innovative ways of seeing the world and solving problems.

Performs clinical pharmacy services to assigned clinic patients. The Senior Pharmacist acts as an integral member of Fred Hutch patient care services, providing pharmacotherapeutic recommendations to providers, nursing, research staff, and other members of the health care team to optimize patient care. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to direct patient care, drug dispensing, research & education, and practice management as it pertains to the care of the assigned patient population. The pharmacist will work with the specialty pharmacy team to ensure patients have access to needed medications and will provide clinical support and documentation when required.

At Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, all employees are expected to demonstrate a commitment to our values of collaboration, compassion, determination, excellence, innovation, integrity, and respect.

This is a Full Time role working Monday thru Friday partially at our South Lake Union location and remotely.

This position may be eligible for relocation assistance.

Responsibilities

Clinical:

• Collaborate with providers to individualize drug therapies promoting safe, effective and economical patient care.


• Perform comprehensive medication therapy review and other activities as necessary to ensure safe transitions of care.


• Assume responsibility for monitoring and modifying the drug regimen when referred, to include the ordering and interpretation of laboratory testing.


• Provide refill authorization in conjunction with assessment of adherence, disease states, drug interactions, efficacy, and safety.


• Act as a drug information resource to providers, nursing staff, research staff and patients.


• Ensure patient access to specialty medications by assisting with providing required clinical information to insurers when needed.


• Identify patients with indications for drug therapy who are under-treated and optimize drug therapy.


• Identify barriers to adherence to medication regimen, incorporating patient characteristics i.e. language, culture/religious practices, physical, cognitive, emotional, pain/discomfort, socioeconomic status.


• Utilize tools in educating the patient on self-management of disease and drug therapy.


• Review clinic prescribing patterns with clinic staff to design targeted education to promote consistency with UWP guidelines (or other nationally recognized guidelines when needed)


• The pharmacist may manage anticoagulation therapy, infectious disease therapy, complementary and alternative therapy, or pain/palliative care for clinic patients under a collaborative drug therapy agreement. Patient care activities include management of all aspects of therapy including initiation, patient education, short term and long term monitoring and management, care transitions, and consults.

Education:

• Provide primary preceptorship of pharmacy residents and student pharmacists


• Provide education to medical/surgical residents, nursing staff and medical students


• Present at educational conferences to multidisciplinary staff, as requested


• Develop and provide nursing in-services


• Provide didactic teaching to student pharmacists at the University of Washington School of Pharmacy, as requested

Research:

• Participate in collaborative research projects with healthcare professionals, pharmacy residents and student pharmacists.


• Submit unique work for publication in professional journals


• May assist in the preparation, review and implementation of drug study protocols


• Collaborating with investigators in support of investigational drug studies

Practice Management:

• Implement and maintain departmental policies and procedures related to the safe and