Pharmacist-Oncology/Hematology - Sharp Grossmont Hospital - Day Shift - Full Time

Sharp HealthCare; La Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 77,910 - 112,590; Full time

Job summary

Sharp HealthCare is seeking an experienced Oncology Pharmacist to provide advanced pharmaceutical care in the Outpatient Infusion Center. The role focuses on safe chemotherapy administration, clinical consultations, and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams to support cancer treatment goals.

The ideal candidate will hold a California Pharmacist License, AHA BLS certification, and have residency or BCOP credentials.

Qualifications

• CA Pharmacist license required.
• AHA BLS required within 90 days of hire.
• Oncology/hematology residency or equivalent preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive pharmaceutical care in oncology/hematology for outpatient infusion patients.
• Perform formal clinical pharmacotherapy consults with documentation of actions and outcomes.
• Participate in oncology/hematology committees and cross‑functional teams to improve patient care.

Education

California Pharmacist License

AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional

Pharmacy Practice Residency (Oncology/Hematology)

Board Certified Oncology Pharmacist (BCOP)

Job description

Hours

Shift Start Time: 7 AM

Shift End Time: 5:30 PM

AWS Hours Requirement: 10/40 - 10 Hour Shift

Additional Shift Information:

Weekend Requirements: As Needed

On-Call Required: No

Hourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum): $77.910 - $100.530 - $112.590

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

Required Qualifications

• Other: Education pursuant to licensure requirement.
• AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association - REQUIRED
• California Pharmacist License - CA State Board of Pharmacy - REQUIRED

Preferred Qualifications

• Completed a Pharmacy Practice Residency with experience in Oncology or a specialized clinical residency in Oncology and Hematology care.
• BPS Board Certified Oncology Pharmacist (BCOP) - Board of Pharmacy Specialties - PREFERRED

Other Qualification Requirements

• AHA BLS is required within 90 days of hire.

Essential Functions

• Clinical advisory services
  Demonstrates pro-active involvement with advisory service activities and displays follow through and contribution to advisory service outcomes as evidenced by (including but not limited to): Renal Target Monitoring, Antibiotic Surveillance Team, Medication Usage Evaluations and other programs or initiatives specific to the entity.
  Participate in clinical intervention programs through consistent issue identification, provision of reliable best practice/literature based recommendations, follow-through with prescribing and other clinicians.
  Complete submission of electronic forms consistent with the average established for each pharmacy department/shift.
  Consistently responds to and documents drug information requests promptly and professionally.
  Participates in ongoing data collection for MUE.
  Reviews patient medication profiles for appropriateness of drug therapy, therapeutic duplications, allergies, weight, height, minimum and maximum dosing guidelines, age specific requirements, renal and hepatic function, drug interactions and other pertinent factors to individualize patients' medication dosing requirements within boundaries approved by P&T committee.
  Identifies, resolves and documents prescribing, formulary and therapeutic issues through integration of patient variables, clinical status, drug knowledge, and professional judgment.
  Communicates with nurses and physicians in a timely manner about therapeutic issues or problems.
  Follows up on formulary compliance issues and/or communicates issues to management.
  Participates in Code‑Blue emergencies as required, mixes and labels medications as needed, and provides information; assures that pharmacy Code‑Blue billing is completed where appropriate and restocks medications.
  Consistently participate in financial pillar/cost savings measures (e.g. IV to PO conversions, formulary adherence, etc.).
• Clinical consult services
  Demonstrates competency in performing formal clinical consults and patient monitoring practices as approved by the P&T Committee(s):
  Has met minimum certification/recertification requirements as outlined in the Pharmacy Certification Process for Formal Pharmacotherapy Consult and Advisory Services policy and procedure for consult services offered at entity.
  Participates in Clinical Consult Services for example: Pharmacokinetics, Nutrition Support, Pain Management, and other services specific to the entity.
  Attain consult service goals with proper documentation of actions, recommendations, and patient outcomes on the pharmacy monitoring forms.
  Leave concise, objective, legible, and professional notes in the patient's clinical chart.
  Consistently complete formal clinical workload assigned during shift as evidenced by completing all consults and advisory services in a timely manner.
• Committee participation
  Participate actively in Oncology & Hematology care team meetings and conferences.
  Participating in Oncology & Hematology based and hospital-wide committees that impact medication use in the Outpatient Infusion Center.
• Multidisciplinary communication
  Operational Services (working with internal customers):
  Clearly communicates goals and instructions to other staff members, including handoffs between shifts (written/oral).
  Participates in staff orientation and resident/student training programs.
  Effectively intercepts and troubleshoots problems, as demonstrated by effective problem solving, prioritization of issues with respect to level of significance and impact to patient care, safety, workflow, and communication.
  When faced with complex situations, has knowledge of and applies the appropriate policies and procedures.
  Effectively evaluates ongoing workflow issues as and directs daily workload to achieve efficiency and maximize resource utilization as business needs require.
  Attends and participates in staff meetings or reviews staff meeting communications.
  Reads work related email at a minimum on assigned workdays.
  Customer Service Interdepartmental Relations (working with external customers):
  Answers phone in timely, friendly manner, stating department, name, and title.
  Fosters positive relationships through consistent, respectful, professional interactions with customers.
  Responds to requests in timely, caring manner that is consistent with Sharp behavior standards (i.e. attitude).
• Pharmacy operations and distribution
  Assures smooth operation of the pharmacy on a daily basis by providing daily work direction and supervision of technical and ancillary staff; oversight over personnel.
  Prepare and dispense medication accurately and in a timely manner in accordance with recognized standards of practice, legal and regulatory requirements, and hospital pharmacy policies and procedures.
  Dispenses investigational medication according to policies and procedures.
  Enter data correctly into computerized patient medication profile.
  Uses equipment and software appropriately (Cerner, Pyxis Profile, PARRx, Automix, repackaging robotics, physician order entry, etc.).
  Be cognizant of and applies knowledge of age specific medication delivery systems (e.g. adult TPN / TNA solutions, final admixture concentration etc.).
  Applies IV Admixture / Aseptic Technique including the standards of USP 797/800.
  Organize chemotherapy preparation.
  Participates in cost management initiatives including: i.) Managing appropriate Inventory levels to decrease staleness & waste and keep Inventories low; reduce waste; ii.) attempts to reduce expired meds and use short dated items before they expire, etc.; and iii) Borrow loan paperwork complete.
• Quality care
  Oncology and Hematology Pharmaceutical Care - Provide comprehensive pharmaceutical care to the Outpatient Infusion Center.
  Responsible for ensuring safety in the compounding and dispensing of chemotherapy, maintain an adequate supply of medications, minimizing drug waste, minimizing unnecessary exposure to hazardous drugs, and managing cost and reimbursement for cancer drugs.
  Viewed as the "Cancer Medication Expert" who focuses their time providing direct patient care, patient education, and actively participating in clinical decision making.
  Works collaboratively with other health care professionals to develop medication usage evaluations (MUEs), institutional guidelines and make evidence-based decisions designed to improve patient care.
  Participate on committees to improve the safety, efficacy and quality of cancer care and are heavily relied upon to develop polices and implement programs to ensure the safety of staff and patients during the receipt, preparation, administration and monitoring of anticancer agents.
  Provide medication management services for most common patient complications: pain management, nausea/vomiting, diarrhea, anemia, depression, fatigue, etc.
  Contribute to cancer research by leading clinical studies, reporting important observations from practice, and supporting investigational drug service programs.
• Quality initiatives
  Guide the development of evidence-based treatment protocols, algorithms, and/or clinical pathways that are congruent with nationally accepted practice guidelines and quality indicators (Core measures).
  Assist in the development, implementation, and assessment of various technologies used throughout the Oncology and Hematology medication‑use process (Cerner).
  Maintain compliance with standards of national accrediting bodies such as the Joint Commission and CDPH.
  Assist in surveillance and reporting of adverse drug reactions.
• Regulatory compliance
  Compliance to relevant regulatory agency requirements (i.e. state board of pharmacy, CMS, The JC, DHS, FDA, DEA) as demonstrated by:
  Completes monthly assigned nursing unit / drug storage area inspections on time. Completes paperwork including inspection log, documents discrepancies, and makes recommendations for improvement. Brings critical issues to the attention of management.
  Participates in attaining compliance with the National Patient Safety Goals as demonstrated by saving and forwarding orders/examples to management or designee (i.e. of no VO/TO completed, no prohibited abbreviations, use of "resume all meds", etc.).
  Participates and assists in the collection of mad tracer audits or collection of individual elements from the tracer tool.
  Ensures security of medication storage and compliance with Medication Management (MM) standards (i.e. all meds are labeled, patient own meds are checked, bedside medications have associated physician orders, no expired mods, and the physical security of medications is maintained).
• Research and teaching responsibilities
  Take a leadership role in clinical research and the teaching programs of the Department of Pharmacy Services as they are related to oncology and hematology.
  Participates in providing didactic and experiential training in Clinical Pharmacy for clinical pharmacy residents.
  Assist in the development, implementation, and evaluation of residency programs in the areas of Oncology Pharmaceutical Care and Clinical Pharmacology.
  Actively participates in clinical research projects resulting in presentations and/or publications.
  Provide staff development support to nurses and physicians.
  Provide presentations, publications, and other informative activities to the health care community and general public.
  Maintains awareness of contemporary trends in the profession through the professional literature and regular attendance at professional organization meetings, institutes and seminars.
• Safe medication practice
  Demonstrates probative participation in medication safety initiatives as demonstrated by:
  Participate in concurrent medication safety event (MSE) monitoring programs, as demonstrated by interventions and eQVR submissions.
  Thorough identification, evaluation and analysis of medication safety events, performs initial analysis of MSE'S and assists in the research and identification causative factors of events.
  Performs non-voluntary monitoring (i.e. trigger reports, harm monitors, alerting orders).

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Sharp HealthCare is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability or any other protected class.