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Posted: 04-Nov-24

Location: Visalia, California

Type: Full Time

Salary: $160,000-195,000 based on exp.

Categories:

Clinical Pharmacist

Pharmacy

Job Setting:

Hospital/Institutional

Infusion Pharmacy

Requirements:

Residency Required

Specialty Practice Areas:

Compounding

Hematology

Oncology

Pain Management

Preferred Education:

PharmD

Clinical Pharmacist - Pain/Oncology Management 

Sign-on bonus, Loan Repayment, Relocation Assistance available to those who qualify.

Kaweah Health Medical Center, located in Visalia, CA, is a 613 bed not-for-profit community based teaching facility, and plays a significant role in the health and well-being of California's great Central Valley. We provide state-of-the-art services including acute care, rehabilitation, mental health, skilled nursing, home health, outpatient dialysis, and a rural health clinic system. Kaweah Health is committed to a culture that delivers personal, professional and compassionate experiences, for every person, every time.

The City of Visalia, with a population over 140,000, is centrally located between Los Angeles and San Francisco, only an hour's drive from national parks, and within easy reach of coastal beaches. Visalia offers the unique combination of affordable housing, a friendly community, easy commute to work, and economic opportunity. The cost of living may be small town, but the cultural amenities are big city! Our premier facility in Visalia, California offers an environment unlike any other.

The awarding winning inpatient Pharmacy Department at Kaweah Health Medical Center provides progressive pharmacy services across three campuses and includes a staff of 100+ with over 45 clinical pharmacists.

The Inpatient Pharmacy operates 24/7 pharmacy services. A full array of technology is available to assist with distribution of medications to our patients including automated inventory management, automated dispensing cabinets, bar code technology, automated TPN and workflow management systems.

Clinical Inpatient Pharmacy services utilize an integrated decentralized staffing model. Pharmacists practice on nursing units participating in order verification, provision of drug information, and clinical services. Clinical services include pharmacokinetics, anticoagulation management, and automatic intravenous to oral switches, automatic renal dose adjustments and automatic therapeutic interchanges. Specialty pharmacy services include Anemia Management, Anticoagulation, Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, Infectious Disease, Oncology, Pain Management, and Pediatrics.

Position Description:

Clinical Pharmacist – Pain/Oncology Management:

Kaweah Health Medical Center is seeking a Clinical Pharmacist to join their award-winning Pain/Oncology Management service rotating between the inpatient pain consult service and inpatient oncology unit. This pharmacist will serve as one of three clinical pharmacy experts in the area of pain and oncology management providing individualized patient pain regimen consultations and oncology services to inpatients at Kaweah Health Medical Center.

Responsibilities include:

• Completes individualized patient pain assessments and develops pain regimens to ensure effective pain control for acute, chronic, break-through and neuropathic pain as consulted.
• Completes individualized assessment and monitoring of patients receiving chemotherapy medications within the acute care setting.
• Oversees safe and accurate compounding and dispensing of chemotherapy medication in the acute care setting.
• Participates in the formulary process for pain and oncology related medications by preparing drug monographs of requested non-formulary and/or formulary pain medications or performing medication use evaluations (MUEs).
• Participates in the development and implementation of policy and procedures, order sets and/or institutional use guidelines to promote safe and effective use of pain and oncology medications.
  Participate in interprofessional patient care with hospitalist, palliative/hospice care, oncology and anesthesia physician consultants.
• Completes opioid stewardship review on targeted patients receiving pain management therapy to ensure appropriateness and intervenes as necessary.
• Teaching/precepting of PGY1 residents and UCSF pharmacy students.
• Completion of pain/oncology related patient care projects/presentations, and participation on multidisciplinary institutional committees for the pharmacy department and organization.
• Documents clinical interventions on an ongoing basis to measure the clinical and economic effectiveness of the service with formal reporting at defined intervals.

Link here to learn more about our Pharmacy Department and Pain Management Services: https://www.kaweahhealth.org/our-services/pharmacy/

License\Certification:

• Requires a current California Registered Pharmacist license.

Education\Qualifications:

• Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm. D.) degree required.
• Completion of PGY 1 residency or at least two years acute inpatient hospital pharmacist experience as applicable to the position.
• PGY2 in pain/palliative care, oncology or equivalent experience preferred.

About Kaweah Health

With 600+ beds, 300 physicians and 5000 employees – Kaweah Health provides the people living and working in California’s bustling Central Valley with access to high-quality health care just minutes from home. We are extremely proud of our selection as a HealthGrades Top 100 Hospital. We offer general, specialty and sub-specialty care in a full-range of medical fields (heart, lung, vascular, spine, neurosurgery, childbirth, cancer, etc.) We offer six accredited Graduate Medical Education Programs training physicians of tomorrow as well as both Pharmacist PGY1 and Ambulatory Care PGY2 residencies. Our award winning Cardiovascular programs have recently affiliated with Cleveland Clinic. We offer an expansive rural health clinic system serving residents countywide. The awarding winning inpatient Pharmacy Department at Kaweah Health provides progressive pharmacy services across three campuses and includes a staff of 100+ with over 45 clinical pharmacists. The City of Visalia, with a population over 135,000, is centrally located between Los Angeles and San Francisco, only an hour's drive from 2 national parks, and within easy reach of coastal beaches. Visalia offers the unique... combination of affordable housing, a friendly community, easy commute to work, and economic opportunity. The cost of living may be small town, but the cultural amenities are big city! Our premier facility in Visalia, California offers an environment unlike any other.

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