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 responsible for delivering safe, effective, and comprehensive patient care. This role ensures compliance with all federal, state, and local regulations, as well as standards set by regulatory and accrediting bodies such as The Joint Commission. The Pharmacist performs medication management functions including analysis, verification, monitoring, compounding, and dispensing of medications.

As a successful candidate, you will: 

• 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.

• 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: 

• Graduate of ACPE-accredited Pharmacy School or School with ACPE accreditation pending

• Current CA Pharmacist License

• BLS through the American Heart Association

City of Hope employees pay is based on the following criteria: work experience, qualifications, and work location.

City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer.

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