• Fantastic opportunity to expand your career while making a difference in your community
• Join a friendly, dynamic, welcoming, and inclusive team of caring professionals
• Be rewarded with a competitive hourly rate of $48.21 - $64.50 + benefits! 

About Casey House

Casey House is unlike any other hospital. We are a specialty hospital providing ground-breaking holistic care for people living with and at risk of HIV. We offer a growing mix of inpatient, outpatient, and community-based services that meet clients where they are in their individual journeys to health and wellness. Our safe, welcoming, and judgment-free environment promotes a sense of belonging and community, where the humanity of each client is at the heart of everything we do.

To support us in this work, we are committed to building a team that reflects the diversity of the community in which we live and serve, including 2SLGBTQ+, Indigenous, Black, and other racialized communities, as well as those living with HIV. Every Casey House staff member, peer, and volunteer acts and delivers care to clients in accordance with our purpose, values, and philosophy of care. If you share our values, we would love to have you in our team!

For more information about Casey House, please visit our website.

About the Opportunity

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Pharmacist to join us in Toronto, ON on a permanent full-time basis. This position is part of the OPSEU bargaining unit. 

As the Casey House Pharmacist, you are an active member of the inter-professional medical team and directly responsible for health promotion and maintenance of prescription medication, including tailoring therapy to specific populations (i.e. women, immigrant or indigenous populations), clients with co-morbidities and/or co-infections (i.e. Hep B and C), and monitoring the response to therapy and managing adverse drug reactions. 

More specifically, your responsibilities in this role will entail, but are not restricted to:

• Support medication reconciliation for inpatient admissions and medication review for patients with prolonged lengths of stay
• Provide medication reconciliation/consultation for outpatient clients as per the medication reconciliation policy
• Consult on inpatients for initiation of new therapies or changes to current regimens
• Client and group education re: medication interactions, polypharmacy, drug interactions including with illicit substances, adverse and side effect management, concomitant complementary or alternative medications, health promotion with chronic illness, co-morbidities, co-infections, and medication safety
• Supporting transitions of care from inpatient to outpatient or discharge to community, with a focus on quality improvement and safety strategies
• Pharmacy and medication management: inventory control, regular auditing (as per Accreditation Canada standards), cost-saving strategies, electronic healthcare record (currently BCare) pharmacy linkage, and external pharmacy relationship management
• Attend and contribute to interdisciplinary inpatient care rounds
• Attend and contribute to outpatient team rounds, oversee injectable antiretroviral and depot clinics
• Lead and organize Casey House’s Drugs and Therapeutics Committee including reviewing of medication incidents and improvement activities
• Develop, implement, and update policies related to medication management
• Act as a leader for Medication Management for Accreditation Canada Standards and point person for regular Ontario College of Pharmacy inspections
• Be involved in the implementation and management of quality improvement projects related to medication management

About You

In order to qualify for this role, you must be fully licensed by the Ontario College of Pharmacists, with no restrictions on practice. 

The following qualifications will ensure your success in this role:

• Training as an HIV Pharmacist, with expertise in initiating and changing anti-retroviral, managing drug-drug interactions, and optimizing drug treatment for opportunistic infections
• Experience with counselling clients on drug interactions, polypharmacy, interactions with illicit substances
• Experience in preventing and monitoring for resistance to ARVs, managing interactions with concomitant, complementary, or alternative medications

About the Benefits

For your hard work, you will be rewarded with a competitive hourly wage of $48.21 - $64.50, as well as the following excellent benefits:

• Full alignment to OPSEU wage band
• Participation in Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP)
• Competitive personal entitlement plan
• Comprehensive benefits provided by Manulife, including extended health, dental, life insurance, and LTD coverage
• Employee and Family Assistance Plan
• Free on-site indoor parking 
• Indoor-secured bicycle parking

Most importantly, you will join us with an open mind, and a compassionate and empathetic desire to make a positive difference in your community. 

Please be aware that Casey House has adopted a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy, which requires all staff to be fully vaccinated, or for those not able to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, provide medical documentation and undertake point-of-care antigen testing no later than 48 hours prior to the start of each shift. 

Casey House is committed to providing accommodation in all parts of the hiring process. If you require accommodation, please notify us, and we will work with you to meet your needs.