Pharmacist

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.
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

1. 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.
14. Excellent attendance and discipline free record 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.

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

If this position is temporary, selection for this position will be as per the outlined Collective Agreements: Article 30 (k), CUPE Collective AgreementArticle 10.7 (d), ONA Collective AgreementArticle 13.01 (b) (ii), OPSEU 273 Collective AgreementArticle 14.04, OPSEU 209 Collective AgreementArticle 2.07 and Article 13, PIPSC RT Collective Agreement

JOB TYPE

Work Day:Full Time

Employment type:Permanent Job

Salary:Negotiable

JOB REQUIREMENTS

Minimal experience:Unspecified