Pharmacist

RCCA is seeking an experienced and patient-focused Pharmacist to join our Belleville team. This is an excellent opportunity for a licensed pharmacist who is committed to delivering high-quality patient care, ensuring medication safety, and collaborating with healthcare professionals in a dynamic oncology environment.

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Belleville, NJ

Schedule: Monday - Friday

Compensation: $111,416.97 - $171,410.72 annually

Compensation packages based on your unique skills, experience, and qualifications

As of the date of this posting, RCCA offers a comprehensive benefits package for this position, subject to eligibility requirements. In addition to the salary, we provide: Health, dental, and vision plans, Wellness program, Health savings account - Flexible spending accounts, 401(k) retirement plan, Life insurance, Short-term disability insurance, Long-term disability insurance, Employee

Assistance Program (EAP), Paid Time Off (PTO) and holiday pay, Tuition discounts with numerous universities.

We believe these benefits underscore our commitment to the well-being and professional growth of our employees.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Prepares and dispenses medication orders.
• Maintains and evaluates patient profiles and comprehensive drug data files to assess orders for any incompatibilities.
• Checks all orders for completeness of information, verifies patient information, and proper physician authorization.
• Ensures insurance approval before admixing. Admixes drugs as ordered by physicians accurately and timely per department guidelines and prepares all drugs within OSHA and interoffice guidelines.
• Ensures correct preparation of all formulas or medications.
• Checks all prescriptions for completeness, calculates correct dosages, converting between metric and apothecary equivalents.
• Organizes and directs technician workflow; verifies their preparation and labeling of pharmaceuticals; verifies order entries, charges, and inspections.
• Provides pharmacological information by answering questions and requests from healthcare professionals and patients.
• Provides and documents drug counseling to all patients.
• Ensures adherence to all legal and professional requirements, including those for controlled substances.
• Consults with patients to determine pre-existing conditions to assess medication compatibility.
• Instructs patients on the effects of food and alcohol intake, warns of potential side effects, and provides professional drug information and assistance to medical staff.
• Participates in pharmacy teaching and in-service programs.
• Properly disposes of all materials used when mixing chemo or non-chemo IVs.
• Logs and dates all drugs in use, checks drugs monthly for outdates, and keeps accurate temperature logs.
• Maintains accurate logs on all protocol drugs and patient assistance drugs.
• Assists with inventory control of medications, orders supplies and medications, and receives and shelves medications.
• Ensures standard drug supplies are adequately stocked in all departments.
• Prepares labels, files, and prepares billing, and computes prices.
• Receives new drug education from drug representatives, staying abreast of new information.
• Maintains confidentiality of all information related to patients and medical staff.
• Prepares reports and monitoring activities as directed.