Pharmacy Professional Practice Coordinator

 

The Pharmacy Professional Practice Coordinator is a senior Pharmacist and acts as an integral member of Fred Hutch patient care services, providing pharmacotherapeutic recommendations to providers, nursing, research staff, and other members of the health care team to optimize patient care.  
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to providing research, education and professional pharmacy practice management for the assigned pharmacy practice area and/or assigned patient population. 

Depending on area of assignment, the Pharmacy Practice Manager may provide direct patient care, drug dispensing in addition to the practice management duties. 

At Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, all employees are expected to demonstrate a commitment to our values of collaboration, compassion, determination, excellence, innovation, integrity, and respect.

 

This is a Full-Time role working Monday thru Friday from 8 to 5.

Practice Management

• Implement and maintain departmental policies and procedures related to the safe and effective use of medications
• Routinely evaluate current updates in service specific literature
• Develop and maintain drug therapy monitoring systems for patients
• Establish and maintain efficient lines of communication between pharmacists, physicians, nurses and other members of the health care team.
• Participate in pharmacy and hospital committees as requested
• Participate in the development and implementation of quality assurance programs for pharmacy services, including, but not limited to, prevention of medication errors
• Perform drug utilization evaluation and cost containment analyses, as needed
  Education
• Provide primary preceptorship of pharmacy residents and student pharmacists
• Provide education to medical/surgical residents, nursing staff and medical students
• Present at educational conferences to multidisciplinary staff, as requested
• Develop and provide nursing in-services
• Provide didactic teaching to student pharmacists at the University of Washington School of Pharmacy, as requested
  Research
• Participate in collaborative research projects with healthcare professionals, pharmacy residents and student pharmacists.
• Submit unique work for publication in professional journals
• May assist in the preparation, review and implementation of drug study protocols
• Collaborating with investigators in support of investigational drug studies
  Clinical
  May be assigned Senior Pharmacist clinical responsibilities for an assigned patient care area, including:
• Collaborate with providers to individualize drug therapies promoting safe, effective and economical patient care.
• Perform comprehensive medication therapy review and other activities as necessary to ensure safe transitions of care.
• Assume responsibility for monitoring and modifying the drug regimen when referred, to include the ordering and interpretation of laboratory testing.
• Provide refill authorization in conjunction with assessment of adherence, disease states, drug interactions, efficacy, and safety.
• Act as a drug information resource to providers, nursing staff, research staff and patients.
• Ensure patient access to specialty medications by assisting with providing required clinical information to insurers when needed.
• Identify patients with indications for drug therapy who are under-treated and optimize drug therapy.
• Identify barriers to adherence to medication regimen, incorporating patient characteristics i.e. language, culture/religious practices, physical, cognitive, emotional, pain/discomfort, socioeconomic status.
• Utilize tools in educating the patient on self-management of disease and drug therapy.
• Review clinic prescribing patterns with clinic staff to design targeted education to promote consistency with UWP guidelines (or other nationally recognized guidelines when needed)
• The pharmacist may manage anticoagulation therapy, infectious disease therapy, complementary and alternative therapy, or pain/palliative care for clinic patients under a collaborative drug therapy agreement.  Patient care activities include management of all aspects of therapy including initiation, patient education, short term and long term monitoring and management, care transitions, and consults.

Required:

• Graduation from an accredited School of Pharmacy
• Two years of experience in pharmacy practice (months spent in the completion of an American Society of Health-System Pharmacists accredited residency training program may substitute month-for-month for the experience)
• State of Washington Pharmacist License

Preferred:

• Doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) degree, or equivalent, from an accredited School of Pharmacy

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Pre Employment Drug Screening: 

As a condition of employment Fred Hutch conducts pre-employment drug testing for this pharmacy role. All offers of employment in the pharmacy department are conditional on the applicant successfully completing and passing a drug test in accordance with the Fred Hutch policy. 

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We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, ancestry, national origin, sex, age, disability (physical or mental), marital or veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, political ideology, or membership in any other legally protected class. We desire priority referrals of protected veterans. If due to a disability you need assistance/and or a reasonable accommodation during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to Human Resources at hrops@fredhutch.org or by calling 206-667-4700.