Pharmacy Director

Job Description

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

POSITION SUMMARY

The Pharmacy Director is responsible for overseeing all medication storage, preparation, and distribution in the pharmacy. The Pharmacy Director ensures that the pharmacy provides optimal services; meets all legal, accreditation, and certification requirements; complies with all applicable policies, procedures, codes, and standards of practice.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES

Supervisory

• Administrator of designated ContinuumRx HME and pharmacy personnel and helps recruit, interviews, promotes, and disciplines pharmacy staff
• Ensures performance standards in accordance with pharmacy job descriptions
• Prepares work schedules and monitors workflow processes
• Evaluates and counsels pharmacy staff on their performance
• Provides for the educational needs of the pharmacy staff
• Develops and enforces policies and procedures that promote cost-effective, appropriate, and safe medication use
• Supervises medication storage and preparation areas throughout the pharmacy
• Ensures that patients are assessed for appropriateness of therapy provided by the pharmacy
• Provides for the educational needs of pharmacy staff, patients, and their families
• Ensures maintenance of an adequate medication supply
• Ensures the integrity of the medication supply
• Establishes specifications for the procurement of medications, chemicals, and biological
• Ensures strict control and accountability for medications dispensed to patients or otherwise distributed
• Assures adequate control and documentation of controlled substances
• Ensures applicable continuing education records and licensure are maintained in department files
• Helps prepare a pharmacy budget annually
• Reviews monthly financial statistics and helps maintain expenditures within budget guidelines
• Administers reports, documents, payroll records, statistical surveys, and other required data
• Ensures compliance with Corporate policies and procedures that apply to pharmacy services
• Ensures compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws, rules, and regulations
• Ensures compliance with all applicable accreditation standards to maintain accreditation status
• Availability for assisting with On-Call responsibilities, as needed. ("Taking Call/Being On-Call")
• Clinically manage patients throughout the duration of therapy.
• Participate in compounding; as needed.
• Has periodic consultation with practitioners in the field (meets with pharmacy reps, attends industry meetings and conferences etc.).
• Complete understanding of confidentiality with respect to Company proprietary information as well as information concerning patient/client care; complying with all federal and state laws as apply to confidentiality of protected health information (PHI) and electronic protected health information (EPHI); and following HIPAA guidelines regarding readily identifiable protected health information.
• Guidance for clinical operational aspects of program.
• Oversight of clinical decision-making aspects of program.
• Organizational objective to have qualified clinicians accountable to the organization for decisions affecting consumers.

Qualifications and Experience

• Must be a graduate of an accredited school of pharmacy
• Current, active and in good standing registered pharmacist license in the state of employment.
• Good oral and written skills required; must be able to articulate and communicate clearly.
• Excellent computer skills helpful.
• Must be able to work well with a team, as the pharmacist's role doesn't consist of independent work.