Clinical Pharmacist - BC Children's & Women's Hospital

Salary: The salary range for this position is CAD $51.37 - $64.19 / hour

Job Summary: Are you looking for a place to showcase your clinical hospital pharmaceutical skills? We have the perfect Relief Full-Time opportunity for a Clinical Pharmacist to join our team at BC Children's & Women's Hospital located in Vancouver, BC. Who are we? We are a collaboration of four premier health employers Fraser Health, Provincial Health Services, Providence and Vancouver Coastal health. We provide an integrated approach to pharmaceutical care and service excellence for our clients. We are committed to investing in your professional development in creating an environment where you can advance your career.

As a Clinical Pharmacist you will work to provide the following services to our patients:

• Individualized pharmacotherapy
• Counselling patients about their medication therapy
• Work in collaboration with physicians, and other health care providers to develop implement and monitor therapeutic plans
• Assist in the development of drug therapy guidelines for individual disease conditions
• Prepare and submit for publication in professional journals, case studies and articles that share new knowledge
• Acts as department resource person within your assigned area
• Participate in medication use evaluations, quality improvement initiatives and clinical drug trials
• Provides mentorship and supervision to pharmacy students, residents and new staff

Additionally, we would depend on your expertise to ensure that prescriptions are validated and dispensed accurately; and that medication safety concerns, working with the health care team to resolve discrepancies and/or problems are resolved expediently; your professional practice activities shall be documented proficiently.

Sound like this is for you? To join us you will need:

• Current registration as a Pharmacist with the College of Pharmacists of British Columbia
• Completion of an accredited Hospital Pharmacy Residency Program

Here’s what we have for you:

• A career that offers you the opportunity to work in a fast growing and exciting organization with professionals who are eminent in their respective fields
• Competitive salary package, including comprehensive health benefits coverage

We invite you to apply today and find out why employees recommend Fraser Health to their friends as an exceptional place to work. Apply now to join our diverse team! One team, best pharmacy care, better lives.

Detailed Overview: The Clinical Pharmacist provides clinical pharmacy services including individualization of patient medication therapy; patient medication counselling; consultation with physicians, nurses and other health care providers to develop and discuss therapeutic plans and assistance in the development of drug therapy guidelines for individual disease conditions.

Responsibilities:

• Consults with physicians, nurses and other health care providers to develop and discuss therapeutic plans appropriate for each patient based on chart review and assessment of clinical responses
• Ensures appropriate documentation is maintained in the patient health record in accordance with regulations, protocols and practice standards
• Individualizes patient medication therapy by performing activities such as referencing standard literature/publications and patient demographic information, reviewing patient charts and laboratory test results, meeting with the patient and health care team to assess clinical response of the patient to medication therapy and modifying or developing therapeutic plans to ensure that medication therapy is consistent with the patient's needs
• Provides patient medication counselling regarding drug therapy by reviewing reference literature, summarizing information and meeting with patients and their families to provide and explain information and plans, demonstrating procedures, techniques and use of equipment, and assessing patient's/family's understanding of the procedures, techniques and equipment

Qualifications:

• Current registration as a Pharmacist with the College of Pharmacists of British Columbia
• Completion of an accredited Hospital Pharmacy Residency Program or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience

About Fraser Health: Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.

People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 48,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.

We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the work force. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.

Together, we are the heart of health care.