Clinical Pharmacist II

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. 

Our Clinical Pharmacist II operates at the pinnacle of clinical practice, if you have a proven track record of collaborating with a dedicated multidisciplinary healthcare team to provide exceptional, hands-on patient care we would like to invite you to continue your career at City of Hope Orange County!  Your ability to continue to inspire, innovate, and elevate patient care will set the tone for success. Join us and help shape the future of Orange County's only specialty cancer hospital!

As a successful candidate, you will: 

• Provides comprehensive medication management services, coordinating all clinical pharmacy functions for the acute care areas as assigned to help achieve positive patient centric outcomes through direct and indirect interactions with patients, providers, and interdisciplinary teams.

• Completes patient profile reviews and participates in daily clinical care rounds, huddles, and meetings as an integrated member of a multidisciplinary team.

• Reviews medication regimens for appropriateness, contraindications, and potential interactions.

• Orders, reviews, and acts upon appropriate laboratory tests and other diagnostic studies necessary to support a patient's medication therapy regimen.

• Performs pharmacokinetic monitoring, renal dose adjustments, anticoagulant management, glycemic management, pain management, prophylaxis review, IV to PO conversions, and antimicrobial stewardship as necessary.

• Completes medication reconciliation upon admission, transfer, and discharge from the hospital setting including providing appropriate transitions of care.

• Collaborates with pharmacy supervisors, leadership, and staff to develop policies, procedures, and processes for more efficient processing within the pharmacy Enterprise and area of practice.

• Works with multidisciplinary teams to develop, implement, evaluate, and update EHR order sets, Treatment and Supportive Plans to promote best practice care.

• Ensures compliance with medication management standards outlined by The Joint Commission (TJC), COH, and other accrediting bodies.

• Exhibits expert understanding of regulatory and quality standards for their program area.

• Serves as a liaison between Pharmacy Service and Hospital and Specialty Oncology Services staff.

• Actively participates in organizational, regional and national patient safety initiatives as determined by COH strategic goals and mission.

• Performs all other duties as assigned by pharmacy leadership.

Your qualifications should include: 

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

• PGY1 and PGY2 residencies, or PGY1 plus two years of experience in an acute care hospital pharmacy, or Five years of experience in an acute care hospital pharmacy

• Current CA Pharmacist License

• BLS certification 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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