Clinical Pharmacy Specialist General Hospital

Salary

The salary range for this position is CAD $53.31 - $66.63 per hour.

Are you looking for a place to showcase your clinical hospital pharmaceutical skills? We have the perfect full‑time opportunity for a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist to join our team at Vancouver General Hospital in Vancouver, BC.

We are a collaboration of four premier health employers—Fraser Health, Provincial Health Services, Providence, and Vancouver Coastal Health—providing an integrated approach to pharmaceutical care and service excellence for patients, residents, and clients. We invest in your professional development and create an environment where you can advance your career.

• Consult with internal and external health care professionals on the application of advanced level of theory to delivery of pharmaceutical care.
• Provide clinical direction on complex cases using evidence‑based evaluations to evaluate drug therapies and patient medical histories.
• Participate in patient education and discharge consultations and provide recommendations in the planning and treatment assessment policies and procedures.
• Assist in the development of drug therapy guidelines for individual disease conditions.
• Identify and initiate clinical drug research.
• Prepare items such as case studies and articles for submission to professional journals.
• Conduct pharmacological education or in‑service sessions.
• Represent the department on multidisciplinary care committees, and at external events.

• Current registration as a Pharmacist with the College of Pharmacists of British Columbia.
• Completion of an accredited Hospital Pharmacy Residency Program.
• Post‑graduate Doctor of Pharmacy Degree.
• One (1) year’s pharmacy experience in the designated specialty area.

• Anticoagulation
• Bone Marrow Transplant
• Cardiac Rehabilitation
• Cardiac Surgery
• Cardiology
• Critical Care – Adults
• Critical Care – Neonates
• Critical Care – Pediatrics
• Emergency
• Endocrinology
• Geriatrics
• Infectious Diseases
• Internal Medicine
• Maternal/Fetal
• Mental Health & Substance Use
• Nephrology
• Neurology / Neurosurgery
• Oncology
• Pain & Spinal Cord
• Palliative / End of Life Care
• Pediatrics
• Rehabilitation
• Solid Organ Transplant
• Surgery

• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, including the ability to make presentations.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with other health practitioners, patients, family members, and the public.
• Ability to coach, mentor, teach, demonstrate techniques, and facilitate learning within a multidisciplinary setting.
• Ability to establish curricula and conduct performance evaluations for clinical rotations within the assigned area.
• Ability to independently recommend, implement, monitor, and alter pharmacotherapeutic plans based on patient‑specific information.
• Ability to use focused physical assessment to evaluate efficacy and/or toxicity of drugs.
• Ability to retrieve and evaluate drug literature to support the development of clinical care pathways and medication use evaluations.
• Ability to effectively plan, lead, and coordinate project teams, pharmacists, and students.
• Ability to conduct clinical research studies.
• Ability to design, research, conduct, and publish projects.
• Ability to establish workload priorities in collaboration with others.
• Physical ability to carry out the duties of the position.

We hire great people for outstanding jobs and need your help to expand the ability to deliver prompt and professional service. We aim to build an environment where you love the work you do, the place where you work, and the people around you.

Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations. We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in our workforce.

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Entry level

Full‑time

Health Care Provider

Hospitals and Health Care