Job Description

- Promote the safe, effective, evidence-based, and cost-conscious use of medications across the organization through medication-use evaluation, stewardship, and optimization initiatives.
- Serve as a clinical resource for medication information across the organization, ensuring healthcare teams have access to accurate, current, and evidence-based drug information to support safe and effective medication therapy.
- Improve patient outcomes by evaluating medication-use processes, prescribing practices, and clinical outcomes to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Provide clinical expertise to support formulary management, medication-use policy development, and evidence-informed decision-making.
- Advance continuous quality improvement by analyzing medication-use patterns, translating emerging evidence into practice, and implementing best practices in pharmacotherapy.
- Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to enhance medication safety, optimize resource utilization, and support high-quality, patient-centered care
- Support compliance with regulatory, accreditation, and organizational standards while contributing to strategic initiatives related to medication management and healthcare quality.

Medication Use Evaluation & Clinical Optimization

- Develop, implement, and continuously improve the organization's Drug Use Evaluation (DUE) Program in collaboration with the Clinical Pharmacy Manager.
- Design, lead, and evaluate DUE initiatives to assess the appropriateness, effectiveness, and safety of medication therapy.




- Conduct medication-use reviews and evaluate prescribing practices against evidence-based guidelines, clinical standards, and formulary requirements.
- Identify opportunities to improve medication-use processes and develop evidence-based recommendations.
- Collaborate with clinicians and stakeholders to implement approved recommendations and support practice change.
- Monitor the impact of DUE initiatives and evaluate outcomes to ensure sustained improvement.
- Respond to clinical inquiries from healthcare teams regarding medication selection, dosage, interactions, side effects, and evidence-based therapy options

Medication Safety, Quality Improvement & Compliance

- Identify, assess, and mitigate medication-related risks, prescribing variation, medication waste, and medication expiry.
- Support medication shortage, backorder, recall, adverse drug reaction reporting and risk-management processes.
- Participate in the development, review, and implementation of medication-use policies, procedures, standards, and clinical pathways.
- Provide medication management expertise to support compliance with accreditation, regulatory, and organizational requirements.




- Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to strengthen secure medication-use practices and continuous quality improvement

Data Analytics

- Analyze, interpret, and report medication-utilization data, quality indicators, and clinical outcomes to support organizational decision-making.
- Collaborate on the development reports, dashboards, and presentations that communicate medication-use trends, outcomes, and opportunities for improvement.
- Support evidence-informed formulary management, including medication additions, restrictions, therapeutic interchange initiatives, and formulary deletions.
- Evaluate the clinical, operational, and financial impact of formulary and medication-use initiatives.
- Lead and support medication-use research, program evaluation, and special projects related to medication optimization.

Leadership, Governance & Interprofessional Collaboration

- Serve as Secretary and clinical resource to the Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee, supporting agenda development, documentation, action tracking, and follow-up activities.
- Present DUE findings, recommendations, and outcome reports to committees, leadership teams, and other stakeholders.
- Collaborate with physicians, pharmacists, nurses, and healthcare leaders to support implementation of medication-use improvements.
- Provide education, consultation, and knowledge translation activities related to medication-use evaluations, formulary decisions, and best practices.
- Support change management initiatives that promote adoption and sustainability of evidence-based medication-use practices.

📌 Pharmacist - Drug Use Evaluation (Oakville)
🏢 Halton Healthcare
📍 Oakville