Pharmacy Professional Practice Coordinator

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 make 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.

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 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 Pharmacy license

Preferred:

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

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.

The annual base salary range for this position is from $156,832.00 to $261,352.00, and pay offered will be based on experience and qualifications.

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.

This position is not eligible for H-1B sponsorship at this time.

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center offers employees a comprehensive benefits package designed to enhance health, well-being, and financial security. Benefits include medical/vision, dental, flexible spending accounts, life, disability, retirement, family life support, employee assistance program, onsite health clinic, tuition reimbursement, paid vacation (12-22 days per year), paid sick leave (12-25 days per year), paid holidays (13 days per year), paid parental leave (up to 4 weeks).