Pharmacist - Pharmacotherapy Clinic

CEDARS-SINAI; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision & Dental

Life insurance

Job summary

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA is seeking a Pharmacist for Specialty Pharmacotherapy to optimize complex therapies and improve patient access. The role emphasizes medication management, education, and collaboration with a broad clinical team.

The pharmacist will initiate and monitor therapies, interpret labs, and contribute to protocol development and quality initiatives across ambulatory and specialty programs.

Qualifications

• Licensed California pharmacist required.
• Advanced Practice Pharmacist license strongly preferred.
• Board certification in relevant practice area preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive medication management for specialty/ambulatory care.
• Collaborate with providers and interdisciplinary teams to optimize therapy.
• Initiate, adjust, and discontinue therapies per guidelines; monitor labs.
• Educate patients on specialty medications and therapy outcomes.
• Develop and update protocols and participate in quality improvement.

Skills

Patient experience

Team collaboration

Analytical thinking

Clinical reasoning

Communication

Documentation

Project management

Budgetary & financial

Regulatory

Technical proficiency

Education

Pharmacy degree (ACPE/CSOP)

ASHP residency preferred

Job description

Job Description

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is renowned for its excellence, tied #1 in California and appearing on the 'Best Hospitals' Honor Roll for eleven years. The institution prides itself on its comprehensive healthcare services, with the Department of Pharmacy playing a vital role. Our pharmacy department has over 500 staff members who are dedicated on providing both inpatient and outpatient pharmacy services, ensuring that patients receive high-quality care tailored to their needs.

The Pharmacist in our Specialty Pharmacotherapy at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California is an integral member of Cedars-Sinai's ambulatory and specialty pharmacy programs, to optimize complex, specialty therapy management, and enhance patient access. Collaborating with providers and interdisciplinary teams, a pharmacist in this role improves clinical outcomes and operational efficiency. Additionally, a pharmacist in this role provides comprehensive medication management, therapy monitoring, side effect management, and patient education for high-cost or complex specialty or infusion therapies. In alignment with the most recent clinical guidelines, a pharmacist in this role initiates, adjusts, and discontinues therapies, orders and interprets laboratory results, and authorizes medication refills. A pharmacist in this role also monitors and reports on adherence, therapeutic outcomes, and patient and provider satisfaction. Moreover, a pharmacist in this role provides patient education on specialty medications and acts as a clinical resource to all physicians and support staff. A pharmacist in this role contributes to creating or updating protocols, competency assessments and to continuous quality improvement initiatives.

Why work here?

Beyond outstanding employee benefits (including health, vision, dental and life and insurance) we take pride in hiring the best employees. Our accomplished and compassionate staff reflects the culturally and ethnically diverse community we serve. They are proof of our dedication to creating a dynamic, inclusive environment that fuels innovation.

Qualifications

Educational Requirements:

• Graduate Degree - Graduate of an accredited School of Pharmacy - Minimum.
• Completion of ASHP accredited residency program - Preferred

Licenses and Certifications:

• California Pharmacist license - required
• Advanced Practice Pharmacist License - strongly preferred
• Board certification in relevant practice area - preferred

What else are we looking for?

• Previous experience in specialty management in an ambulatory care setting preferred.
• Patient Experience: Possesses excellent patient service skills prioritizing patient care needs to support safe effective medication use.
• 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.
• Budgetary & Financial: Possesses fiscal management skills and proven track record to prepare, monitor and control budgetary expenses and generate revenue.
• 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.

Physical Demands:

• Frequent sitting; walking, bending; reaching, occasional pushing, pulling, lifting of materials up to 50 pounds.
• Responsiveness to auditory alarms and communication devices including, telephones, pagers, fire alarms, and mechanical failure alarms.
• Sufficient mobility to access equipment, patients, and other customers.
• Able to read information on medication labels.