Pharmacist- Foundation

Pharmacist-Foundation

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 pharmacist is a licensed professional individual with supervision experience, who is responsible for assisting the director and managers in the operational aspects of a department. This individual actively works to ensure optimal delivery of pharmaceutical care and service, as well as, assisting in performance improvement initiatives, either through direct involvement and membership or by occasionally leading PI team efforts. Will participate in the supervision of human and material resources, as well as, program planning, and evaluation. Additionally, will provide input into and is expected to meet budget, revenue and expense targets. This position supervises employees, assigns work, coaches, trains, and evaluates performance. It is expected that the individual who holds this position is able to actively participate with peers, subordinates, and supervisors in constructive problem solving, as well as, to facilitate frequent team building interactions with staff.>

As a successful candidate, you will:

• Ensure that he or she provides services that are accurate, reliable, courteous and timely.
• Support and promote the efforts of all care providers to deliver quality care.
• Promote the delivery of quality care consistent with the scope of practice of the discipline.
• Ensure self-competence and promotes adherence to professional practice standards through education, training, coaching and monitoring.
• Participate with the Director and managers in the implementation and evaluation of new services/programs.
• Supervise personnel and personally delivers pharmaceutical care and service/ information/ medication/ products by serving as a role model and through effective use of change-agent strategies.
• Supervision of Pharmacy Technician to ensure compliance with cleanroom standards, accuracy of medication inventory and accuracy of IV compounded products.
• Keep up-to-date with USP 797 & 800 guidelines and work with interdisciplinary team to ensure compliance.
• Maintain Pharmacy Technician IV compounding annual competencies.
• Effectively communicates/educates all customers to meet organizational goals and customer service expectations.
• Maintain current knowledge, skills and competencies through involvement in professional continuing education activities.
• Manage/supervise the efficient and effective utilization of resources and staff (technicians, students, interns, etc.) and serves as a role model in training programs.
• Fosters involvement in performance improvement activities to promote continuous improvement in care delivery.
• Demonstrates assimilation of core organizational values within own performance.
• Monitor drug therapy; recommends alternate more efficient drug therapy when appropriate.
• Prepare and dispense medications in strict adherence to department policies and procedures.

Your qualifications should include:

Minimum Education:

• Graduate of an ACPE-accredited School of Pharmacy with ACPE accreditation pending with a BS Pharmacy degree

Req. Certification/Licensure:

• Current CA Pharmacist License.

Preferred Education:

• Pharm D preferred

Preferred Experience:

• Two years of experience, preferred.

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