Oncology Pharmacy Supervisor

Quick Facts

• Role: Oncology Clinical Care Pharmacy Supervisor (licensed pharmacist)

• Focus: Oncology Drug Stewardship Program, medication safety, clinical leadership, and pharmacy supervision

Description

Develop, implement, manage, and report outcomes of an Oncology Drug Stewardship Program to improve patient outcomes and ensure safe and effective use of oncology drugs. Provide clinical services for medication management and therapeutic drug plans, including medication reconciliation, adverse drug event reporting, and documentation in the EHR. Serve as a subject matter expert for oral oncology medications while supervising oncology pharmacy staff and supporting inpatient and outpatient teams.

Responsibilities

• Oncology Drug Stewardship Program Management: Develop, implement, and maintain stewardship processes; collaborate on formulary interpretation, drug restrictions, drug shortages, and non-formulary/off-label requests.

• Pharmacoeconomics: Identify and implement cost savings and cost avoidance opportunities for oncology therapies.

• Clinical guideline support: Partner with Hematology, Oncology, MTU, Nursing, and Clinical Nutrition to create, review, and update disease treatment guidelines, clinical pathways, policies, and dosing protocols.

• Clinical documentation & patient safety: Document recommendations and interactions in the EHR; complete medication reconciliation; participate in adverse drug event reporting and report medication errors.

• Direct patient care: Design, implement, and monitor therapeutic drug plans; initiate medication and lab orders as permitted by scope of practice and policy.

• Education & counseling: Provide comprehensive medication and disease-state counseling; provide authoritative drug information and resolve therapy questions.

• Precepting: Precept pharmacy students and residents.

• Administration/Supervision: Ensure hazardous medication handling compliance; supervise Clinical Pharmacist Practitioners (scheduling, leave management, performance appraisals); recruit and select new staff.

• Research support: Assist with medication use evaluations, outcome measures, basic research, and investigational drug processes.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship

• BS Pharmacy or Pharm.D. (ACPE-accredited), or foreign degree equivalency via FPGEC/FPGEE and TOEFL iBT

• Full, current, unrestricted pharmacy license; maintain current registration

• Proficiency in written and spoken English

• Subject to background/security investigation

• Complete onboarding, drug screening if selected, and pre-employment physical evaluation

• Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program

• Complete all required application documents and serve the 1–2 year trial period

• GS-13 experience requirement: 1 year experience equivalent to the next lower grade level

Benefits

• Competitive salary and regular salary increases

• Paid Time Off: 37–50 days of annual paid time off per year (including annual leave, sick leave, and paid federal holidays)

• Paid parental leave up to 12 weeks after 12 months of employment

• Child care subsidy eligibility after 60 days for eligible full-time employees

• Retirement: federal pension (with 5 years vesting) and federal 401K (up to 5% contribution match)

• Insurance: federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care options