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Job Description

When the work you do every single day has a crucial impact on the lives of others, every effort, every detail, and every second matters. This shared culture of passion and dedication pulses through Cedars-Sinai, and it’s just one of the many reasons we’ve achieved our six-consecutive Magnet designation for nursing excellence. From working with a team of premier healthcare professionals to using state-of-the-art facilities, you’ll have everything you need to do something incredible—for yourself, and for others. Join us, and discover why we are tied #1 in California and ten years in a row on the "Best Hospitals" Honor Roll.

The Ambulatory Care Clinic Pharmacist 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, embedded within specialty clinics to optimize complex, specialty or infusion 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.

Qualifications

Educational 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 -- required

+ Board certification in relevant practice area -- preferred

What else are we looking for?

+ Previous experience in specialty or infusion therapy 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.

**Req ID** : 13292

**Working Title** : Pharmacist - Ambulatory Care Clinic

**Department** : Specialty Pharm Prescriptions

**Business Entity** : Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

**Job Category** : Pharmacy

**Job Specialty** : Pharmacy

**Overtime Status** : NONEXEMPT

**Primary Shift** : Day

**Shift Duration** : 8 hour

**Base Pay** : $67.51 - $108.02

Cedars-Sinai is an EEO employer. Cedars-Sinai does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of the race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition (cancer-related or genetic characteristics or any genetic information), marital status, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, age (40 or older), military and/or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal or state law.