Pharmacist - Full Time (40 hours/week)

Kittitas Valley Healthcare; Ellensburg (WA); On-site; USD 84,000 - 127,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits eligible

Job summary

Kittitas Valley Healthcare is seeking a staff pharmacist to provide comprehensive pharmaceutical services to hospital inpatients and the retail pharmacy. You will work closely with other health care providers to ensure safe medication practices and positive patient outcomes.

The KVH Hospice retail prescriptions are filled under a collaborative practice agreement with our Hospice Medical Director. The role requires a Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmacy and a current Washington State license, with

Qualifications

• Pharmacist with a Bachelor’s Degree and active WA state license.
• Familiarity with Pyxis automated dispensing cabinetry.
• Current CPR certification.
• Current PALS certification.

Responsibilities

• Provide progressive and comprehensive pharmaceutical services to hospital patients and the hospital's retail pharmacy.
• Collaborate with other health care providers to ensure positive patient outcomes through safe medication practices.
• Fill prescriptions for KVH Hospice retail pharmacy under a collaborative practice agreement with the Hospice Medical Director using approved algorithms.

Skills

CPR certification

PALS certification

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmacy

WA State Pharmacy License

Tools

Pyxis

Job description

Company Description

KVH is an integrated healthcare delivery system that includes 24-hour emergency care, inpatient, and outpatient hospital services through KVH Hospital. Clinics and services provided include family medicine, internal medicine, a geriatric nurse practitioner program, home health and hospice, physical therapy, orthopedics, general surgery, pediatrics, women’s health, and urgent care.

Company Description

KVH is an integrated healthcare delivery system that includes 24-hour emergency care, inpatient, and outpatient hospital services through KVH Hospital. Clinics and services provided include family medicine, internal medicine, a geriatric nurse practitioner program, home health and hospice, physical therapy, orthopedics, general surgery, pediatrics, women’s health, and urgent care.

Kittitas Valley Healthcare expects all employees to uphold our Vision & Mission. The KVH Vision, Mission & Guiding Principles can be found at http://www.kvhealthcare.org/mission-and-vision.

KVH puts ‘employee care’ high on the priority list, with health benefits like low cost medical, dental, and vision insurance and a robust employee wellness program. KVH offers company contribution toward your choice of medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage, including coverage available for spouses/ domestic partners, and dependent children. KVH believes that continuing education is critical to our mission and vision. We have implemented many educational programs such as the Medical Assistant Apprenticeship program and certification pay toS encourage continuing education. We want our employees to know they are valued. One of the ways we show this is by quickly vesting employees, making them pension eligible after just one year of part-time status. To view more details about the comprehensive benefits package we offer to eligible employees visit our website -

Benefits - KV Healthcare

www.kvhealthcare.org

Job Description

The staff pharmacist will be responsible for the provision of progressive and comprehensive pharmaceutical services to the hospital patients and the retail pharmacy. The staff pharmacist will work closely with other health care providers to ensure positive patient outcomes associated with safe medication practices. The retail pharmacy fills prescriptions for KVH Hospice under a collaborative practice agreement with our Hospice Medical Director utilizing algorithms approved by the Board of Pharmacy.

Qualifications

What is required...

• Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmacy
• Current license to practice Pharmacy in the State of Washington
• Familiarity with Automated Dispensing Cabinetry (ex. Pyxis)
• Current CPR card (maintenance required)
• Current PALS card (maintenance required)

What Is Preferred

• Two years’ work experience in a hospital setting
• Amerisource Bergen, Cerner experience
• CPOE, Emar, Rx Informatics experience
• Bar Code at the Bedside experience
• Retail Pharmacy Experience
• Knowledge of the 340B Program
• Prior experience with Hospice protocols and guidelines

Additional Information

• Wage: Wage range currently starts at $61.21/hour and goes up to $92.78/hour. Actual wage will be based on years' of applicable experience.
• FTE: 1.0 (40 hours/week)
• Benefits: This position is benefits eligible
• Union Status: This is a non-union covered position