Clinical Pharmacist II

Clinical Pharmacist II

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope's growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today. The Clinical Pharmacist II plays a key role in providing high-level clinical care as part of a multidisciplinary healthcare team, focusing on direct patient care. In this role, the inpatient hospital clinical pharmacist takes ownership of workflows and processes within their area of expertise and actively contributes to the design, implementation, documentation, and monitoring of comprehensive medication management (CMM) and therapeutic care plans. Through close collaboration with patients and providers, they ensure positive, patient-centered outcomes. Serving as a vital link between Pharmacy Services and Hospital & Specialty Oncology Services, the inpatient clinical pharmacist plays a crucial role in facilitating discharges and coordinating care to enhance continuity and improve patient outcomes.

As a successful candidate, you will:

• Provide comprehensive medication management services, coordinating all clinical pharmacy functions for the acute care areas as assigned to help achieve positive patient centric outcomes through direct and indirect interactions with patients, providers, and interdisciplinary teams.
• Complete patient profile reviews and participate in daily clinical care rounds, huddles, and meetings as an integrated member of a multidisciplinary team.
• Review medication regimens for appropriateness, contraindications, and potential interactions.
• Work directly with patients, families, and caregivers to provide comprehensive education about medications and related disease state(s).
• Verify patient understanding of the medication including its intended purpose, proper use, expected outcomes, and how to obtain refills/renewals.
• Ensure an updated medication profile and list of medications are provided.
• Collaborate with pharmacy supervisors, leadership, and staff to develop policies, procedures, and processes for more efficient processing within the pharmacy Enterprise and area of practice.
• Work with multidisciplinary teams to develop, implement, evaluate, and update order sets, Treatment and Supportive Plans to promote best practice care.
• Ensure compliance with medication management standards outlined by The Joint Commission (TJC), COH, and other accrediting bodies.
• Exhibit expert understanding of regulatory and quality standards for their program area.
• Serve as a liaison between Pharmacy Service and Hospital and Specialty Oncology Services staff.
• Develop an understanding of therapeutic clinical studies in their areas of expertise and manage patients' treatment based on study requirements and specifications.
• Participate in Oncology research and contribute to cancer discoveries and the clinical trials being conducted by investigators and doctors at City of Hope.
• Assist in designing, developing, conducting, and presenting the results of Medication Use Evaluations (MUEs), and other projects related to patient outcomes.
• Participate as a primary preceptor for pharmacy resident projects.
• Perform all other duties as assigned by pharmacy leadership.

Your qualifications should include:

• Graduate of ACPE-accredited Pharmacy School or School with ACPE accreditation pending PGY1 and PGY2 residencies, or PGY1 plus two years of experience in an acute care hospital pharmacy, or Five years of experience in an acute care hospital pharmacy
• Current CA Pharmacist License
• BLS certification or within 3 months of hire

Primary Location: United States-California-Duarte

Job: Allied Health Work Force Type: Onsite

Shift: Days