Pharmacist - Ambulatory Care Clinic

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.

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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.

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Educational Requirements:

• Graduate Degree - Graduate of an accredited School of Pharmacy – Minimum.
• Completion of ASHP accredited residency program -- Preferred

• California Pharmacist license – required
• Advanced Practice Pharmacist License -- required
• Board certification in relevant practice area -- preferred

• 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.

• 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.

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