Pharmacist

Located in the heart of Washington, we enjoy open skies, snow-capped mountains, and the lakes and rivers of the high desert. We are the proud home of orchards, farms, and small communities. Confluence Health actively supports the communities we serve and their quality of life through our community support program and through our individual efforts as involved community members.

Pool Employees of Confluence Health receive a range of benefits in addition to compensation.

• Retirement Plan
• Pool Differential
• Sick Leave
• Shift Differential
• Employee Assistance Program

Summary

Pharmacist role involves delivering top-tier outpatient pharmacy services, ensuring the highest standards of pharmaceutical care for each patient within their designated area. The outpatient coverage includes: CWH Professional Pharmacy, where the pharmacist is responsible for patient consultations, clinical reviews, and Drug Utilization Review for dispensed medications. Tele-Pharmacy, which involves remote verification, supervising pharmacy technicians remotely, and providing on-site backup coverage as needed. Additionally, the role encompasses therapeutic assessments, interventions, and planning for both individual patients and patient populations.

Position Reports To: Pharmacy Manager

Essential Functions

• Assure safe, effective, and cost-effective use of drugs on behalf of the patient through the application of specialized knowledge, skills and professional judgment, while considering the patient’s disease conditions.
• Maintains knowledge of age specific issues and applies that knowledge to the provision of care within our institution.
• Assure compliance with hospital and departmental policies, procedures, and practice guidelines.
• Provide drug information for physicians, nurses, and patients; utilizing specialized knowledge, critical thinking and available drug resources.
• Coordination of the drug distribution system/pharmacy services for areas of responsibility.
• Compliance with formulary management and therapeutic substitution initiatives.
• Assure on-going improvements in therapy and systems through collaborative problem solving, research and participation in the hospital and department’s organizational performance initiatives.
• Provide direct supervision of pharmacy technicians. Responsible for overseeing and monitoring the daily activities of pharmacy technicians to appropriately maintain the provision of safe, timely and effective pharmaceuticals.
• Assists the pharmacy manager and other staff in developing and maintaining quality assurance programs, new clinical services, an effective formulary, and appropriate policy and procedures.
• Facilitates seamless patient care by coordinating discharge medications in collaboration with hospitalists & discharge nurses and hospice medications dispensing & delivery in collaboration with hospice pharmacists.
• Assists in the development of protocols, guidelines and workflow.
• Participates in the training and development of pharmacist, technicians and other health care disciplines as deemed appropriate.
• Participate as a member of multi-disciplinary and pharmacy committees as deemed appropriate.
• The position has independent responsibilities for organizing and planning ones work in order to accomplish daily responsibilities as well as broad goals and objectives.
• Assist in Adverse Drug Reaction and Medication Error reporting with ideas for prevention of future incidents.
• Maintain patient confidentiality standards.
• Positively affects morale.
• Ensures compliance with controlled substances policies, including inventory management, monthly counts, and daily accuracy of dispensed and on-hand counts.
• Meets priorities as established by the Pharmacy Manager.
• Responsible for communicating operational and personal concerns, and opportunities for improvement to department leadership.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Demonstrate Standards of Behavior and adhere to the Code of Conduct in all aspects of job performance at all times.

• Bachelor's Degree (Bachelor of Science) in Pharmacy (RPh).
• Licensed to practice in the state of Washington prior to start date.
• BLS within first year of employment, and recertified bi-annually.
• Must possess basic computer skills related to Windows navigation, mouse usage, accurate keyboarding, email communication and password management.

• PhD (Pharm. D).
• Outpatient or retail pharmacy, Hospice pharmacy and medication therapy Management.

• Not specified.

• Unprotected Heights – No
• Heat – No
• Cold – No
• Mechanical Hazards – Yes
• Hazardous Substances – Yes
• Blood Borne Pathogens Exposure Potential – No
• Lighting – No
• Noise – No
• Ionizing/Non-Ionizing Radiation – No
• Infectious Diseases – Yes

• Assure safe, effective, and cost-effective use of drugs on behalf of the patient through the application of specialized knowledge, skills and professional judgment, while considering the patient’s disease conditions.
• Maintains knowledge of age specific issues and applies that knowledge to the provision of care within our institution.
• Assure compliance with hospital and departmental policies, procedures, and practice guidelines.
• Provide drug information for physicians, nurses, and patients; utilizing specialized knowledge, critical thinking and available drug resources.
• Coordination of the drug distribution system/pharmacy services for areas of responsibility.
• Compliance with formulary management and therapeutic substitution initiatives.
• Assure on-going improvements in therapy and systems through collaborative problem solving, research and participation in the hospital and department’s organizational performance initiatives.
• Provide direct supervision of pharmacy technicians. Responsible for overseeing and monitoring the daily activities of pharmacy technicians to appropriately maintain the provision of safe, timely and effective pharmaceuticals.
• Assists the pharmacy manager and other staff in developing and maintaining quality assurance programs, new clinical services, an effective formulary, and appropriate policy and procedures.
• Facilitates seamless patient care by coordinating discharge medications in collaboration with hospitalists & discharge nurses and hospice medications dispensing & delivery in collaboration with hospice pharmacists.
• Assists in the development of protocols, guidelines and workflow.
• Participates in the training and development of pharmacist, technicians and other health care disciplines as deemed appropriate.
• Participate as a member of multi-disciplinary and pharmacy committees as deemed appropriate.
• The position has independent responsibilities for organizing and planning ones work in order to accomplish daily responsibilities as well as broad goals and objectives.
• Assist in Adverse Drug Reaction and Medication Error reporting with ideas for prevention of future incidents.
• Maintain patient confidentiality standards.
• Positively affects morale.
• Ensures compliance with controlled substances policies, including inventory management, monthly counts, and daily accuracy of dispensed and on-hand counts.
• Meets priorities as established by the Pharmacy Manager.
• Responsible for communicating operational and personal concerns, and opportunities for improvement to department leadership.
• Performs other duties as assigned.