Job DescriptionThe Pharmacist in our Specialty Pharmacotherapy at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California is an Advanced Practice Pharmacist, 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.
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QualificationsEducational 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.
