Research Pharmacist- Cellular Therapy Research

Location: Cancer Care Research Pavilion, 10510 N. 92nd St, Scottsdale

Hours: Full-Time, Days, Monday-Friday 8am-5pm

Sign-On Bonus: Up to $10,000 Available!

Looking to be part of something more meaningful? At HonorHealth, you will be part of a team, creating a multi-dimensional care experience for our patients. You will have opportunities to make a difference. From our Ambassador Movement to our robust training and development programs, you can select where and how you want to make an impact.

HonorHealth offers a diverse benefits portfolio for our full-time and part-time team members designed to help you and your family live your best lives. Join us. Let’s go beyond expectations and transform healthcare together. As a member of the HonorHealth team, you will work collaboratively with other innovators working to advance our pharmacy program. Join us and be part of a team larger than the individual contributors, coming together to embody HonorHealth's iCare values: Innovation, Collaboration, Accountability, Respect, and Empathy.

HonorHealth is one of Arizona's largest nonprofit healthcare systems, serving a population of five million people in the greater Phoenix metropolitan area. The comprehensive network encompasses nine acute-care hospitals, an extensive medical group with primary, specialty and urgent care services, a cancer care network, outpatient surgery centers, clinical research, medical education, a foundation, an accountable care organization, community services and more. With more than 16,000 team members, 4,000+ affiliated providers and over 1,100 volunteers, HonorHealth seamlessly blends collaborative care and approachable expertise to improve health and well-being.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for coordinating and implementing the preparation, compounding and dispensing of investigational drugs.
• Ensures compliance with the required record-keeping, shipping, ordering, and inventory activities for investigation drugs to meet sponsor requirements, FDA regulations and legal requirements for pharmacy operations.
• Oversees pharmacy students and residents, interns and technicians in the day to day operations for investigational drugs.
• Performs pharmacist duties in the cancer center when needed.
• Coordinates and implements investigational drug study protocols including pharmacy study set up and close out, and staff education.
• Contributes to the body of knowledge in pharmacy practice (research, poster presentation, journal article, etc.).
• Reviews proposed investigational drug protocols for scientific merit, appropriateness of research to be conducted, content of consent forms and safety issues.
• Serves as a resource and collaborates with investigators, research personnel and sponsors on proposed research protocols.
• Evaluates and assesses the impact of investigational studies on pharmacy operations by determining storage, preparation, monitoring and budget requirements.
• Coordinates the procurement, receipt, and accountability of investigational drugs.
• Participates in sponsor site initiation visits and study monitor visits.
• Accurately maintains investigational drug study records and documentation as required by the study sponsor and accrediting bodies.
• Reviews study related adverse events, protocol updates, and progress reports.
• Provides professional and patient consultations per pharmacy guidelines and in a timely manner (i.e. Investigational drug therapy, physician consults).
• Develops and implements evidence-based medication guidelines/protocols.
• Designs and implements medication monitoring guidelines and programs for staff.
• Acts as a liaison to the nursing units, in assigned practice area, in order to communicate pertinent information and to facilitate communication and increase cooperation.
• Attends and actively participates in patient care team meetings by problem solving and getting involved in the planning process.
• Serves as a representative at the Institutional Review Board (IRB).
• Assists in the coordination of the departmental performance improvement and quality assurance activities including medication use evaluation, medication error review, adverse drug reaction review and pharmacy intervention reporting.
• Coordinates follow up on implementation of target programs and pharmacoeconomic evaluations.
• Develops the pharmacy skills of pharmacy staff members by teaching and exemplifying those skills to the team members; trains and directs the training of new staff members; participates in staff educational development encouraging team members to further their learning in pharmaceutical care to contribute to patient care/safety; provides educational seminars to pharmacy staff at least twice a year; provides educational information to physicians and other Licensed Independent Practitioners (staff), nursing staff, and other allied health care professionals as needed or assigned.
• Identifies and implements Pharmacy Practice Model Initiative (PPMI) models.
• Precepts PGY1 and PGY2-Pharmacotherapy residents, pharmacy students, and contributes to staff development in area of specialty practice.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Education: Graduate of an ACPE-accredited School of Pharmacy with a minimum of Doctor of Pharmacy degree or equivalent experience. Required
• Experience: One (1) year hospital pharmacy residency or 3 years of clinical pharmacy experience in a hospital setting. Required
• Licenses and Certifications: Pharmacy/RPH - Registered Pharmacist Required