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Posted: 23-Nov-25
Location: Beverly Hills, California
Internal Number: 13292
Job Description
When the work you do every single day has a crucial impact on the lives of others, every effort, every detail, and every second matters. This shared culture of passion and dedication pulses through Cedars-Sinai. From working with a team of premier healthcare professionals to using state-of-the-art facilities, you?ll have everything you need to do something incredible-for yourself, and for others. Join us and discover why we are #1 in California and ten years in a row on the "Best Hospitals" Honor Roll.
The Ambulatory Care Clinical Specialist Pharmacist in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD) at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California is an Advanced Practice Pharmacist who works with a multidisciplinary team to provide comprehensive medication management for IBD patients. Responsibilities include medication reconciliation, therapy monitoring, managing side effects, educating patients on specialty medications and infusions, and assisting with patient access.
The Pharmacy Specialist in IBD achieves positive patient outcomes through evidence-based disease management guided by established protocols, promotes adherence, and enhances satisfaction among both patients and based on current clinical guidelines, such as those from the American College of Gastroenterology and Cedars-Sinai?s P&T-approved protocols, the specialist initiates, adjusts, or discontinues therapies, orders and interprets lab results, and authorizes medication refills.
Additionally, this specialist educates patients about specialty medications and serves as a clinical resource for physicians and support staff and liaison with the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Specialty Pharmacy. They also help develop and maintain order sets, best practices, protocols, competency assessments, and participate in ongoing quality improvement efforts.
Sign-on bonus is available to new hires only. Current employees are not eligible.
We are currently offering UP TO $10,000 sign-on bonus.
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Qualifications
Educational Requirements:
- Graduate Degree - Graduate of an accredited School of Pharmacy - Minimum
- Completion of ASHP accredited residency program - Preferred
Licenses and Certifications:
- California Pharmacist license - Required
- Advanced Practice Pharmacist License - Strongly preferred or in progress of obtaining certification
- Board certification in specialty pharmacy - Strongly preferred
What Else Are We Looking For?
- Clinical Practice Experience: Previous experience in IBD specialty or infusion therapy management in an ambulatory care setting is preferred.
- Patient Experience: Possesses excellent patient service skills prioritizing patient care needs to support safe effective medication use.
- Team Skills: Collaborates effectively with internal teams and stakeholders to achieve program goals.
- Analytical: Apply critical thinking to analyze and interpret information and/or data. Ability to analyze qualitative and quantitative information for decision support.
- Analytical: Demonstrates good decision-making/problem solving skills. Exhibits good clinical reasoning skills and judgments in managing patients with the highest medical complexity/acuity.
- Communication: Ability to convey and/or receive written/verbal information to/from various audiences in different formats. Communicates effectively and engages in positive inter/intra departmental interaction with peers, physicians, staff and patients.
- Documentation: Demonstrates the ability to accurately and promptly document all clinical interventions, assessments, and therapy changes in the patient?s Electronic Health Record (EHR).
- Project Management: Initiate, plan, design, implement, and monitor project(s) Ability to manage projects, establish timeliness, analyze data relevant to areas of responsibility. Ability to function independently, ability to plan, organize, direct, monitor and evaluate assigned work.
- Budgetary & Financial: Possesses fiscal management skills and proven track record to prepare, monitor and control budgetary expenses and generate revenue.
- Regulatory: Ability to interpret and apply knowledge of State, Federal and Agency standards to comply with regulations.
- Technical: Ability to learn and adapt to the use of software, technology, and automated information systems in daily practice.
Physical Demands:
- Frequent sitting; walking, bending; reaching, occasional pushing, pulling, lifting of materials up to 50 pounds.
- Responsiveness to auditory alarms and communication devices including telephones, pagers, fire alarms, and mechanical failure alarms.
- Sufficient mobility to access equipment, patients, and other customers.
- Able to read information on medication labels.