Pharmacist

Join our growing pharmacy team at Hamilton Health Sciences in providing safe and effective medication while improving patient care and outcomes. 
At Hamilton Health Sciences, our pharmacy department plays an essential role in ensuring the effective distribution of medications and delivery of safe, high quality patient care to patients which facilitates successful treatment outcomes in compliance with legal, regulatory and accreditation standards.  The management and distribution of our medications is important in ensuring our patients consistently receive the excellent care for which we are known.  We are growing our pharmacy team and presently seeking a pharmacist to support us.  
The pharmacist is a key member of the interdisciplinary healthcare team whose key responsibilities include reviewing and assessing medication orders and collaborating with the patient and healthcare team directly to optimize medication use, and to identify and avoid medication-related problems to achieve desired patient outcomes. The pharmacist will provide drug information, promote evidence-based/cost effective drug therapy 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