Infusion Oncology Pharmacist - Peninsula

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.

Performs clinical pharmacy services to assigned clinic patients.

The pharmacist 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 tooptimizepatient care.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to direct patient care, drug dispensing, research & education, and practice management as it pertains to the care of the assigned patient population.

The pharmacist will work with the specialty pharmacy team to ensure patients have access to needed medications and will provide clinical support and documentation when required.

At Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, all employees are expected todemonstratea commitment toour values of collaboration, compassion, determination, excellence, innovation, integrity, and respect.

This is a Per-Diem role that will work a variable schedule Monday thru Friday at our Peninsula Clinic location.

Clinical:

• 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 andmodifyingthe 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, researchstaffand patients.
• Ensure patient access to specialty medications byassistingwith providing required clinical information to insurers when needed.
• Identify patients with indications for drug therapy who are under-treated andoptimizedrug therapy.
• Identify barriers to adherence to medication regimen, incorporating patientcharacteristicsi.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…