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    Pharmacist - Hamilton, Canada - Hamilton Health Sciences

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    Unit Summary

    Hamilton Health Sciences Pharmacy Services is embarking on an exciting, transformational journey of redefining patient care as we leverage the most advanced technologies to enhance all aspects of delivering highly reliable, safe, and quality care. We are a multi-site department offering a wide range of services within inpatient, ambulatory and retail pharmacy services. We have pharmacy facilities at the Juravinski Hospital and Cancer Centre, Hamilton General, McMaster University Medical Centre, St. Peter's, West Lincoln, and other sites as required including Alternate Health Facilities. The scope of Pharmacy services also includes three retail pharmacies (Cancer Centre Pharmacy, McMaster Drugstore and General Drugstore). We are a tertiary care center offering a wide range of specialty patient services ranging from neonatal, pediatric, adult, geriatric and palliative care and are collaborators for clinical trials and research. Our services are offered with recently renovated state-of-the-art cleanroom facilities for sterile and non-sterile compounding.

    Position Summary

    Join our growing pharmacy team in providing safe and effective medication use to our clinical units at Hamilton Health Sciences.
    At Hamilton Health Sciences, our pharmacy department plays an essential role in ensuring the safe distribution and service of medications to patients which facilitates successful patient treatment outcomes in compliance with legal, regulatory and accreditation standards. The management and distribution of our medications is important in ensuring we can consistently deliver the high-quality, safe care that we are known for. We are growing our pharmacy team and presently seeking a pharmacist to support us.
    The pharmacist is a key member of the multidisciplinary healthcare team whose key responsibilities include reviewing and assessing medication orders and collaborating with the patient and healthcare team directly to optimize medication use, identifying, and avoiding medication-related problems to achieve desired patient outcomes. The pharmacist will provide drug information, promote evidence-based/cost effective drug therapy and clinically relevant research and be involved in educational activities for students, families, and staff. Ongoing collaboration and communication within the healthcare team and with the pharmacy team is essential.

    Position Responsibilities:

    • Responsible for the provision of clinical pharmacy services for the purpose of achieving definite outcomes to improve the patient's quality of life

    • Review of physician's orders, creation, and maintenance of patient medication profiles, and may include IV admixture, TPN, pediatric and chemotherapy preparation, drug information, drug therapy monitoring and adverse drug reaction reporting depending on the site

    • Order entry of medication orders with future transition to computerized physician order entry in EPIC system

    • Other duties as assigned

    Schedule Work Hours

    days, evenings, nights, weekends, holidays

    Qualifications
  • Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy required. PharmD is an asset.
    2. Current registration with the Ontario College of Pharmacists required – Part A of Register
    3. Previous hospital experience in unit dose and/or IV admixtures preferred
    4. Hospital residency program or equivalent an asset
    5. Demonstrated ability to work independently and as a member of a team
    6. Demonstrated ability to prioritize a consistent and varied workload
    7. Ability to direct and teach staff.
    8. Demonstrated written and verbal communication skills required, in order to facilitate effective
    communication with patients, peers, and other health care providers.
    9. Demonstrated ability to identify, prevent and resolve drug related problems.
    10. Active membership in the Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists (CSHP) is an asset.
    11. Good understanding of change management; must be able to identify change needs and
    proactively act on those needs.
    12. Leadership, problem solving, organization skills required.
    13. Effective negotiation and conflict management resolution skills required.
  • As a condition of employment, you are required to submit proof of full COVID-19 vaccination to Employee Health Services.
  • Hamilton Health Sciences fosters a culture of patient and staff safety, whereby all employees are guided by our Mission, Vision, Values, and Values Based Code of Conduct. Hamilton Health Sciences is a teaching hospital and all staff and physicians are expected to support students and other learners.

    To be considered for this opportunity applicants must apply during the posting period. All internal and external applicants may ONLY apply via the Careers website.

    Hamilton Health Sciences is an equal opportunity employer and we will accommodate any needs under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom, Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act and the Ontario Human Rights Code. Hiring processes will be modified to remove barriers to accommodate those with disabilities, if requested. Should any applicant require accommodation through the application processes, please contact HR Operations at , Ext for assistance. If the applicant requires a specific accommodation because of a disability during an interview, the applicant will need to advise the hiring manager when scheduling the interview and the appropriate accommodations can be made.

    This competition is open to all qualified applicants, however, qualified internal applicants will be considered first. Past performance will be considered as part of the selection process. If you are a previous employee of Hamilton Health Sciences, please note: the circumstances around an employee's exit will be considered prior to an offer of employment

    Proficiency in both Official Languages, French and English, is considered an asset


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