Pharmacist - Infusion Services DT

• DEPARTMENT: 17070 - Pharmacy DT
• LOCATION: 350 7th Street North, Naples, FL, 34102
• WORK TYPE: Full Time
• WORK SCHEDULE:

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The Pharmacist - Infusion Services is responsible for supporting the safe, effective, efficient, and financially responsible delivery of outpatient infusion therapy across Naples Comprehensive Health infusion services locations. These entail the Downtown Baker hospital and the North Naples Hospital. This pharmacist serves as a key clinical and operational partner to nursing, physicians, pharmacy, and administrative leaders to ensure high quality infusion care, regulatory compliance, medication safety, treatment standardization, and optimal patient throughput. This role supports medication order verification, clinical appropriateness review, infusion therapy coordination and infusion related quality improvement. There will also likely be opportunities to participate in treatment plan standardization and medication-use policy development. The Infusion Services Pharmacist helps align infusion operations with organizational goals related to safety, patient experience, operational efficiency, and financial performance. This position will report to the System Director of Pharmacy Services.

This role is structured as a clinical staff pharmacist position with the opportunity for future professional growth based on organizational need, demonstrated leadership, and service line development (Pharmacy manager/clinical pharmacy specialist).

• Other duties may be assigned.

Demonstrates skills and judgment necessary to provide pharmaceutical care services.

Monthly medication room inspections are on time and accurate.

Maintains the highest degree of accuracy as measured by lack of variances. Actively reviews patient medication profiles for demographic completeness, ADRs, drug interactions, therapeutic duplications, formulary compliance and therapeutic appropriateness.

Properly supervises pharmacy technicians working in sterile compounding/infusion.

Understands the legal/regulatory requirements related to the release of information.

Creative Problem Solving - Examples of Achievement.

Performs duties in alignment with Pharmacist Job Description at NCH.

Collaborate with nursing, providers, and pharmacy staff to minimize treatment delays and improve infusion center throughput.

Manage non-formulary requests through the approved P&T channels.

Supports on-site sterile and hazardous medication compounding operations in partnership with System Director of Pharmacy, Pharmacy Designated Person, and infusion pharmacy staff.

Provides pharmacist oversight of the hazardous compounding technician to help ensure safe, compliant, and efficient workflow.

Participates in quality improvement, medication safety, and regulatory readiness initiatives related to infusion pharmacy services.

Doctor of Pharmacy degree from an accredited school of pharmacy required.

State of Florida Pharmacist license required.

One year of hospital experience preferred.

Ability to communicate effectively with physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, technicians, and pharmacy leadership.

Ability to work independently and prioritize workload effectively.

Experience in Oncology, hematology, outpatient infusion services, ambulatory infusion pharmacy, or hospital-based infusion practice.

Experience with sterile compounding and hazardous drug handling.

Familiarity with USP and USP operational and compliance expectations.

Proficiency with Epic and Beacon platforms

Board certified in oncology pharmacy (BCOP).

Board certified in sterile compounding pharmacy (BCSCP)

PGY2 residency in Oncology Services.