Clinic Pharmacist
ChristianaCare
Newark, DE

Come and join us in the ChristianaCare Pharmacy - Dedicated to getting the right drug to the right patient at the right time!

Why ChristianaCare?

• At the Newark Campus, operations run through a network of inpatient pharmacies, including a central pharmacy and satellite pharmacies that focus on critical care, emergency medicine, heart failure, investigational drugs, neonates, oncology, pediatrics, perioperative services, sterile and non-sterile compounding, transplant, trauma, and women’s health.
• Clinical services include robust acute and ambulatory care services. In the acute care setting, the department employs a decentralized model of practice, placing pharmacists directly into patient care units to provide integrated care as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Substantial PTO plus 12-Week Fully Paid Parental Leave
• 403(b) and Defined Contribution Plan Retirement Options with competitive Employer Match
• Not-for-profit organization eligible with the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program
• Pharmacy Board Certification reimbursement

ChristianaCare is recruiting a Clinical Staff Pharmacist at the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center. In this position, you will provide longitudinal pharmaceutical care to hematology and oncology patients at the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center (HFGCC) infusion suite and physician practices by dispensing, overseeing preparation, monitoring, and evaluating of patient specific pharmacotherapy.

Principle Duties and Responsibilities:

• Review and interpret provider's medication orders, evaluate drug efficacy, therapeutic goals and indications, review for contraindications/precautions, the patient's current status of health, and review drug profiles and patient's medical record for drug-drug, drug-food, drug- laboratory and drug-disease state(s) potentials
• Coordinate and supervise work-place activities and resources; promote professional competence; assure that services rendered and work performed are in accordance with specific standards; advise, assist, and supervise work of pharmacy technicians; assume final responsibility for accuracy of their work; to include sterile product processing in the cleanroom suite, where the pharmacist is responsible for assuring USP 797/800 standards are consistently in compliance.
• Consult with the prescriber and nurse to resolve problems and clarify questioned orders prior to dispensing medication
• Provide accurate, unbiased, timely, and cost-effective drug information to medical, pharmacy, nursing and other allied health providers
• Monitor drug therapy outcomes for targeted patients within established guidelines
• Manage patient’s complete medication plan throughout the continuum of their treatment in concert with the health care team.
• Manage patients supportive care plan (ie. nausea or vomiting)
• Collaborate with research team to support patients enrolled in clinical trials
• Report, record, assess and evaluate adverse drug reactions
• Identify and submit Safety First Learning Reports (SFLR) R2L and providing follow up assessment
• Assure handling of medications complies with state and federal laws and regulations and hospital policies
• Prepare special medications involving compounding procedures and sterile products using aseptic technique when necessary to assure appropriate and timely dispensing

Education and Experience Requirements:

• B.S. in Pharmacy or PharmD degree required; PharmD preferred
• Requires at least one year of experience working as a pharmacist in an outpatient infusion setting or acute care hospital, or; two years of previous experience working as a Pharmacy Intern, or Pharmacy Technician in an outpatient infusion setting or acute care hospital
• Outpatient infusion experience preferred
• Sterile compounding experience preferred
• Current licensure (or eligible to reciprocate) in the State of Delaware

If you 're inspired to make a difference, we invite you to become a ChristianaCare caregiver!