Pharmacy Professional Practice Coordinator

Pharmacy Professional Practice Coordinator

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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is an independent, nonprofit organization providing adult cancer treatment and groundbreaking research focused on cancer and infectious diseases. Based in Seattle, Fred Hutch is the only National Cancer Institute‑designated cancer center in Washington.

With a track record of global leadership in bone marrow transplantation, HIV/AIDS prevention, immunotherapy and COVID‑19 vaccines, Fred Hutch has earned a reputation as one of the world’s leading cancer, infectious disease and biomedical research centers. Fred Hutch operates eight clinical care sites that provide medical oncology, infusion, radiation, proton therapy and related services, and network affiliations with hospitals in five states.

Together, our fully integrated research and clinical care teams seek to discover new cures to the world’s deadliest diseases and make life beyond cancer a reality.

At Fred Hutch we value collaboration, compassion, determination, excellence, innovation, integrity and respect. Our mission is directly tied to the humanity, dignity and inherent value of each employee, patient, community member and supporter. Our commitment to learning across our differences and similarities makes us stronger. We seek employees who bring different and innovative ways of seeing the world and solving problems.

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 1.0 FTE (40 Hours) role primarily based out of our South Lake Union Campus but will periodically work out of community site clinics.

• 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 prevention of medication errors.
• Perform drug utilization evaluation and cost containment analyses, as needed.
• 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.

• 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.

• May be assigned Senior Pharmacist clinical responsibilities for an assigned patient care area, including collaborating with providers to individualize drug therapies promoting safe, effective and economical patient care.
• Perform comprehensive medication therapy review and other activities as necessary…