Pharmacist - Bakersfield, CA

Adecco Healthcare & Life Sciences is hiring a Pharmacist for a 8-week contract assignment with one of our healthcare partners in Bakersfield, CA !

Pay: $75.00 - $78.00/hour
Shift: Night Shift | 10-hour shifts
Schedule: Full-time | Weekend rotation required (up to every other weekend)
Location: Bakersfield
Duration: 8 Week Contract

Responsibilities:

• Processes, enters, verifies, and distributes medication orders within the institution in a timely manner and in compliance with department and hospital policies, as well as Joint Commission and other regulatory guidelines.

• Actively ensures that medication therapy is efficacious, safe, cost effective, and achieves the best therapeutic outcomes.

• Assures that medication prescribing is optimal with respect to indication, dose, route, frequency, history of allergy, and does not duplicate or negatively interact with other drugs.

• Conducts and manages daily reports on medication utilization based upon daily rounds to identify, catalogue, and subsequently analyze areas in which medication improvement is needed.

• Consistently performs quality assurance procedures in related work areas.

• Participates in all pharmacy-related tasks and programs such as clinical rounds, unit based and/or population based medication management activities, remote order verification, and all other areas as directed/necessitated.

• Expedites changes needed to meet regulatory, accrediting, licensing, and government agency standards and laws.

• Participates in department cost savings.

• Complies with drug formulary and appropriate documentation.

• Collaborates with appropriate leadership and buyer to purchase, contract, and procure medications and related supplies to ensure that product and vendor selection is based upon the highest medication safety standards.

• Assists in making recommendations on process improvement or development of new pharmacy services.

• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Requirements:

• Active California Pharmacist License (Required)

• Graduate of an accredited School of Pharmacy (Required)

• PharmD preferred

• Minimum 1 year of inpatient clinical pharmacy experience preferred

• Current EPIC experience required

• Must have experience working with pediatric and neonatal age groups

• Strong knowledge of medication safety, dosing, interactions, and therapeutic monitoring

• IV compounding experience preferred

Why work for Adecco?

• Weekly Pay on Friday

• 401(k) Plan

• Skills Training

• Excellent medical, dental, and vision benefits

  Benefit offerings include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, EAP program, commuter benefits and 401K plan. Our program provides employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. Available paid leave may include Paid Sick Leave, where required by law; any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law; and Holiday pay upon meeting eligibility criteria.

IMPORTANT: This job is being recruited for by Adecco's Medical and Science division, not your local Adecco Branch Office.

Pay Details: $70.00 to $74.00 per hour

Benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, EAP program, commuter benefits and a 401K plan. Our benefit offerings provide employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable.

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