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General Information

Work Location: Santa Monica, USA
Onsite or Remote
Fully On-Site
Work Schedule
Monday - Friday, 8am - 5pm, Variable
Posted Date
12/10/2024
Salary Range: $140200 - 331800 Annually
Employment Type
2 - Staff: Career
Duration
Indefinite
Job #
21092

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

You bring more than skill, knowledge, and expertise to your role as an allied health professional. You bring a deep passion for improving the lives of everyone around you. At UCLA Health, we’re committed to fostering a working environment where you are supported and empowered to be your best. You’ll love it here!

Reporting to the Director of Pharmacy - Infusion Operations at UCLA Health, you will coordinate and supervise department operations, serving as the Pharmacist in Charge (PIC) for non-hospital ambulatory infusion pharmacies. Key responsibilities include ensuring compliance with regulatory guidelines, supervising staff, managing hiring, training, and performance, overseeing clinical programming, and maintaining adherence to budget and resource utilization. You will foster a collaborative and professional department culture, act as an innovative problem-solver, and adapt to the evolving healthcare environment. Upholding CICARE standards, you will maintain a patient-focused approach, emphasizing integrity, innovation, and commitment in treating illness.

UCLA Health, passionate clinicians in a wide range of disciplines have enabled us to become a world-renowned health system with four award-winning hospitals and more than 270 community clinics throughout Southern California. We’re also home to the world-class medical research and clinical education capabilities of the David Geffen School of Medicine. If you’re looking to experience greater challenge and fulfillment in your career, come to UCLA Health.



Salary Range: $140,200-$331,800 per year 

Job Qualifications

We’re seeking a strong, independent leader with a current California Pharmacist license and:
  • PharmD degree
  • Any combination of - Pharmacist-in-Charge (PIC) experience, Leadership experience, 2 years of Oncology/Infusion experience
  • Doctor of Pharmacy from an accredited school of pharmacy.
  • Ability to set priorities, which accurately reflect the relative importance of job responsibilities.
  • Skill to work independently and follow-through on assignments with minimal supervision.
  • Knowledge and ability to understand and interpret current scientific literature.
  • Effectively communicate orally using appropriate vocabulary and grammar to obtain information, explain policies and procedures, and to persuade others to adopt a specific opinion or action.
  • Knowledge of and ability to perform age specific and disease specific pharmacokinetic calculations.
  • Knowledge to handle or prepare intravenous admixtures and other sterile products such according to acceptable stands of aseptic technique.
  • Skill in writing articles/monographs/emails, which are concise, coherent, and use appropriate vocabulary and grammar.
  • Proficiency in all aspects of electronic medical record operation, particularly in the interpretation of laboratory and clinical data and physician recommendations necessary to authorize prescriptions.
  • Ability to organize, prioritize, and follow through for multiple patient treatments on an ongoing basis.
  • Ability to provide evidence-based recommendations for symptom management.
  • Ability to accept direction from leadership and act promptly.
  • Demonstrated ability to establish, nurture, and maintain cooperative working relationships with peers, co-workers, health care practitioners, and administrators.
  • Skill in listening perceptively, conveying awareness and responding to patients and visitors with health concerns using tact and discretion.
  • Ability to interact diplomatically and sympathetically with patients, their families, and the public in a high volume, clinical setting.
  • Skill in performing with frequent interruptions and/or distractions including the ability to accept equivocal circumstances and respond to changing priorities and deadlines
  • Ability to maintain confidentiality and to work with sensitive and confidential information using discretion, professionalism, and good judgment.
  • Ability to operate automobile with appropriate licensure and insurance.
  • Proficient in EPIC/Care Connect & Beacon. - Preferred
  • BPS Board certification - Preferred
  • Completion of PGY1 and/or PGY2 residency - Preferred

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts a conditional offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; received notice of any allegations or are currently the subject of any administrative or disciplinary proceedings involving misconduct; have left a position after receiving notice of allegations or while under investigation in an administrative or disciplinary proceeding involving misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of misconduct with a previous employer.