Pharmacy Manager-Ambulatory Oncology/Infusion

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. 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.

About the Role

Reporting to the Associate Chief of Pharmacy – Ambulatory Treatments, UCLA Health, you will work to coordinate and supervise Pharmacy Oncology/Infusion operations. Activities include acting as the Pharmacist in Charge (PIC) for an Ambulatory Oncology/Infusion Pharmacy as well as ensuring compliance with institutional, federal, and state regulatory guidelines.

Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for staff supervision, hiring, training, assessment, and discipline.
• Oversight of clinical programming, adherence to department budget, ongoing review of purchasing and utilization of personnel resources.
• Compliance with policies, standard operating procedures, and maintenance of staff morale and a healthy department culture.
• Other roles and functions at the discretion of the Associate Chief.
• You will cultivate a collegial, professional, cooperative relationship with pharmacy staff, medical professionals, support and administrative staff.
• Be a positive role model for the department, an effective, innovative problem-solver, and is well able to adapt to challenges of the rapidly changing health care environment.
• Upholding the standards of CICARE, you will prioritize a patient-centric focus that strives to treat illness with integrity, through innovation and commitment.

Qualifications

• Current California Pharmacist license.
• PharmD degree.

Required Skills

• 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.

Preferred Skills

• Prior Pharmacist-in-Charge (PIC) within the state of CA - Strongly Preferred.
• Prior Leadership experience - Preferred.
• Recent (within past 2 years) Oncology experience - Preferred.
• Proficient in EPIC/Care Connect - Preferred.
• BPS Board certification - Preferred.