Lead Specialty Pharmacist - Sharp Grossmont Specialty Pharmacy - Day Shift - Full Time

sharp; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Sharp HealthCare's Specialty Pharmacy Services seeks a pharmacist to provide comprehensive pharmaceutical care and clinical support within our specialty program. You will apply professional knowledge to optimize therapies and support mission-driven patient care.

Positions require advanced practice credentials, immunization delivery, and state licensing. The team emphasizes regulatory compliance, education, and cross-site program development in a dynamic hospital setting.

Qualifications

• PharmD or Bachelor's degree in pharmacy required.
• 5 years experience in advanced practice area; or PGY1 + 2 years; or PGY1 + PGY2.
• AHA BLS Healthcare Provider certification required.
• California Pharmacist License required.
• Pharmacy-Based Immunization Delivery certification required.
• Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties certification within 6 months of hire required.
• Advanced Practice Pharmacist License required within 12 months.

Responsibilities

• Analyze expenditures and costs related to drug therapies and outcomes.
• Provide financial input and track pharmacoeconomic improvements.
• Coordinate design and implementation of pharmacy programs.
• Support multi-site pharmacotherapy programs and clinical pathways.
• Educate staff and maintain system integration programs.
• Ensure regulatory compliance and documentation meets audits.

Skills

BLS Certification

Immunization Delivery

Education

PharmD

Bachelor's Degree in Pharmacy

Tools

Regulatory Compliance Knowledge

Job description

Hours

Shift Start Time: 8 AM Shift End Time: 6 PM

AWS Hours Requirement: 8/40 - 8 Hour Shift

Additional Shift Information: 8 hour shift between 8:00am through 6:00pm

Weekend Requirements: As Needed

On-Call Required: No

Hourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum): $86.690 - $111.880 - $125.300

The stated pay scale reflects the range that Sharp reasonably expects to pay for this position. The actual pay rate and pay grade for this position will be dependent on a variety of factors, including an applicant's years of experience, unique skills and abilities, education, alignment with similar internal candidates, marketplace factors, other requirements for the position, and employer business practices.

What You Will Do

To provide the professional, administrative support, and clinical and technical knowledge, skills and expertise required for the provision of comprehensive pharmaceutical care that supports the mission, values and philosophy of Specialty Pharmacy Services and Sharp HealthCare.

Required Qualifications

Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) Or

Bachelor's Degree in pharmacy.

5 Years Experience in advanced practice area;Or

3 Years Completion of PGY1 residency and 2 years experience in advanced practice area;Or

2 Years Completion of a PGY1 residency and PGY2 residency.

AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association -REQUIRED

California Pharmacist License - CA State Board of Pharmacy -REQUIRED

Pharmacy-Based Immunization Delivery - Various-Employee provides certificate -REQUIRED

Other Qualification Requirements Any BPS (Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties) Certification is required within 6 months of hiring into this position. Department to track and maintain this requirement. -REQUIRED

Advance Practice Pharmacist License- CA Board of Pharmacy is required within 12 months of hire into this position. The department will track and manage this license- REQUIRED

Essential Functions

Financial Management

• Assists management in assessing expenditures related to drug therapies, including drug and non-drug supply costs, and costs of clinical outcomes, including adverse events and treatment failures. Identifies and prioritizes targets.
• Provides financial input to Pharmacy Management using available tools and resources. In addition, uses available reports, databases and customer feedback to identify opportunities for financial gain and prioritization of formal pharmacoeconomic improvement efforts.
• Is able to coordinated the design and implementation of pharmacy programs. Involves staff content/expertise experts as available. Tracks and reports documented outcomes improvements and therapy cost reductions from MUEs, interventions, guideline. Assists Pharmacy Management to ensure that financial officers are kept well informed of the positive financial impact of Specialty Pharmacy Services on resource utilization and patient care.

Patient Care Support

• Provides input to Pharmacy Management via status reports. When appropriate, presents pharmacy quality performance improvement measures to medical staff committees, pharmacy and therapeutics committee, and to quality committees.
• Assists Pharmacy Management in determining the needs of Specialty Pharmacy and its customers. Obtains input from service providers.
• Participates in the selection, development, implementation, outcomes analysis, reporting, and maintenance of selected multi-site pharmacotherapy programs, including clinical pathway, disease state management programs, or other cross- continuum pharmacotherapy programs. Reviews and reports on progress of integration plan and identifies additional areas and plans for improvement. Demonstrates competency in efficiently and quickly identifying valuable resources (information, people, etc.), practice precedents/models, both internal and external to SHC. Avoids re-work when possible and appropriate.
• Provides and / or coordinates formal needs-based education. Educates, promotes and assists the coordination of staff involvement in clinical responsibilities with formal certification in key activities and skill sets.
• Assists Pharmacy Management with the development and implementation of system integration programs. Reviews and reports (P and T, medical staff, and quality committees) on the progress of the program and identifies additional areas for improvement.

Regulatory Compliance

• Monitor compliance with state and federal laws and regulations related to the practice of pharmacy as well as standards and regulations for other regulatory agencies for specialty pharmacy practice (URAC/ACHC).
• Ensure documentation meets regulatory audit and compliance.
• Ensure protocols are followed.
• Ensure collaborative agreement followed.

Quality Assurance

• Knowledge of and active participation in concurrent medication safety event (MSE) monitoring programs, as demonstrated by interventions and RL solution submissions.
• Qualitative work demonstrates thoughtful and thorough identifi