Sr. Pharmacist, Full-time, Day Shift

About Us

Adventist Health Sonora has been one of the area's leading healthcare providers since 1900. We are comprised of a 72-bed hospital, 30 medical offices, comprehensive cancer care, and a vast scope of award-winning services located throughout Tuolumne and Calaveras counties and the surrounding areas. Sonora is known for its friendly hometown charm, vast outdoor experiences, and lively downtown. The allure of Sonora's close-knit community is complemented by its proximity to Yosemite National Park, as well as just a quick drive to Lake Tahoe.

Adventist Health is a faith-based, nonprofit, integrated health system serving more than 100 communities on the West Coast and Hawaii with over 440 sites of care, including 27 acute care facilities. Our compassionate and talented team of more than 38,000 includes employees, physicians, Medical Staff, and volunteers driven in pursuit of one mission: living God's love by inspiring health, wholeness, and hope.

About the Role

Compounds, prepares, mixes, manufactures, and dispenses medicines using a high level of technical and organizational skills. Uses critical thinking abilities. Oversees the proper handling, usage, and storage of drugs in the pharmacy. Maintains standards set by the department and translates policies/procedures into daily operation and clinical activities. Supervises and trains assigned technical personnel and assumes responsibility for technical support activities within the pharmacy department.

Responsibilities

• Processes, enters, verifies, and sends medication orders within the institution in a timely manner that is in compliance with department/hospital policies, Joint Commission, and other regulatory guidelines.
• Ensures medication therapy is efficacious, safe, convenient, and cost-effective. Establishes the best therapeutic outcomes.
• Assures that medication prescribing is optimal with respect to indication, dose, route, frequency, history of allergy, and does not duplicate or interact with the effects of other drugs.
• Conducts and manages daily reports on medication utilization based upon daily rounds to identify, catalogue, and subsequently analyze areas in which medication improvement is needed. Performs quality assurance procedures in related work areas.
• Participates in all pharmacy-related tasks and programs such as clinical rounds, emergency department, short-staffed areas, and all other areas as directed/necessitated. Expedites changes needed to meet regulatory, accrediting, licensing, and government agency standards and laws.
• Participates in department cost savings. Complies with drug formulary and appropriate documentation. Collaborates with appropriate leadership and buyer to purchase, contract, and procure medications and related supplies, ensuring product and vendor selection is based upon the highest medication safety standards.
• Assists in making recommendations on process improvement or development of new pharmacy services.
• Individuals experiencing exposed rashes, sunburn, weeping sores, conjunctivitis, active respiratory infections, or other communicable disease, or those wearing cosmetics, nail polish, or artificial nails shall be excluded from the ISO Class 5 and ISO Class 7 compounding areas until their conditions are remedied.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Graduate of school of pharmacy: Required
• Bachelor's Degree: Preferred
• Two years' technical experience: Preferred
• Two years' experience as a clinical pharmacist specializing in a regulatory area: Preferred
• One year's hospital pharmacy experience: Preferred

Qualifications

• Pharmacist license in the state of practice: Required
• All licensures and certifications needed to fulfill the duties required of a Pharmacist at the state level: Required

Pay

The estimated base pay for this position is $72.84 to $99.91 per hour. Additional individual compensation may be available for this role through differentials, extra shift incentives, bonuses, etc. Base pay is only a portion of the total rewards package, and a comprehensive benefits program is available for qualifying positions.

Schedule

• Full time
• 10-hour shifts