"Pharmacy Manager -Ambulatory Care Clinical Pharmacy Manager"

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, and it’s just one of the many reasons we’ve achieved our six-consecutive Magnet designation for nursing excellence. 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 tied #1 in California and ten years in a row on the "Best Hospitals" Honor Roll.

The Ambulatory Care Clinical Manager at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California will serve as a clinical leader and subject matter expert in specialty and infusion therapies, overseeing ambulatory care clinical pharmacy activities. This role provides strategic and operational leadership for Cedars-Sinai’s ambulatory and specialty pharmacy clinical programs, including the Pharmacotherapy Clinic and infusion therapy services. This role is responsible for developing and maintaining standardized, evidence-based clinical protocols, ensuring pharmacist competency, and promoting excellence in medication management across all ambulatory care sites. The clinical manager collaborates closely with the Specialty Pharmacy to optimize prescribing practices, internalize specialty prescriptions, and prevent external leakage by strengthening coordination between clinic-based pharmacists and pharmacy operations. A key responsibility includes advancing pharmacists billing for ambulatory care and clinic-based services, in accordance with California Assembly Bill 317 (AB-317). Through partnership with physicians and interdisciplinary teams, this role enhances patient access, continuity of care, and overall clinical and financial performance. The clinical manager also supports program development, quality improvement, regulatory compliance, and financial stewardship to ensure alignment with Cedars-Sinai’s mission of delivering safe, high-quality, and patient-centered pharmacy services.

Qualifications

Educational Requirements:

• Graduate Degree - Graduate of an accredited School of Pharmacy - Minimum.
• Completion of an ASHP accredited residency program -- Preferred

Licenses and Certifications:

• California Pharmacist license - required
• Advanced Practice Pharmacist License -- required
• Board certification in a relevant area of practice (e.g. Ambulatory Care, Pharmacotherapy, Oncology, or other specialty areas) - required

Experience:

• Previous clinical and operational experience in ambulatory care or specialty pharmacy management.
• Demonstrated expertise in specialty disease areas such as Oncology, Immunology, or Inflammatory Diseases, with in-depth knowledge of therapeutic options, treatment guidelines and patient management strategies.
• Patient Experience: Proven ability to care for patients with complex conditions requiring individualized and multi-disciplinary therapeutic regimens.
• 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.
• 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.

Req ID : 13293
Working Title : Pharmacy Manager -Ambulatory Care Clinical Pharmacy Manager
Department : Specialty Pharm Prescriptions
Business Entity : Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Job Category : Pharmacy
Job Specialty : Pharmacy
Overtime Status : EXEMPT
Primary Shift : Day
Shift Duration : 8 hour
Base Pay : $74.36 - $133.85