Director of Pharmacy

Pharmacy Director - Medication Safety Compliance & Regulatory

Directs, manages, and oversees pharmacy programs, activities, and operations. Ensures adherence to established policies and procedures. Prepares and presents in-service educational programs to medical and pharmacy staff. Patient care assignment may include: Neonate, Pediatric, Adolescent, Adult, and Geriatric age groups.

Detailed responsibilities include:

• Supervision: Develop efficient organizational structure. Supervise employees and select, terminate, train, educate, correct deficiencies, perform appraisals, issue discipline, counsel, schedule work assignments, encourage staff teamwork and growth initiatives.
• Quality: Manage and participate in the development and implementation of goals, objectives, policies, and procedures to ensure continued quality of care.
• Quality: Monitor and evaluate the efficiency of department programs and activities, identifies and recommends areas of improvement.
• Supply: Assist in coordinating the annual hospital drug bids. Maintain invoices and purchase orders, ensure prompt payment by utilizing discount offers.
• Projects: Establish and monitor investigational drug projects.
• Reports: Prepare and maintain a variety of reports, analyze and interpret reports as required, identify and recommend areas of improvement through data research and statistical analysis.
• Patient Services: Ensure pharmacy services are provided in a timely manner consistent with patient needs.
• Coordination: Coordinate pharmaceutical services functions within pharmacy to include drug distribution, purchasing, and procurement activities in a cost-effective manner.
• Patient Care: Develop, implement, and monitor clinical pharmacy programs to include Medication Usage Evaluation (MUE) programs.
• Documentation: Prepare monographs for drugs going to the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee.
• Supervision: Coordinate clinical clerkship rotations for pharmacy students.
• Patient Care: Manage formulary and non-formulary drug approvals and criteria enforcement.
• Documentation: Prepare, publish, and distribute Pharmacy and Therapeutics newsletter.
• Communication: Develop and submit proposals and articles, conduct presentations at educational and research meetings.
• Development: Enhance professional growth and development through participation in educational programs, reading current literature, attending in-services, meetings, and workshops.
• Patient Safety 1: Follow patient safety-related policies, procedures, and protocols.
• Patient Safety 2: Demonstrate proactive approach to patient safety by seeking opportunities to improve patient safety through questioning of current policies and processes.
• Patient Safety 3: Identify and report/correct environmental conditions and/or situations that may put a patient at undue risk.
• Patient Safety 4: Report potential or actual patient safety concerns, medical errors, and/or near misses in a timely manner.
• Patient Safety 5: Encourage patients to actively participate in their own care by asking questions and reporting treatment or situations that they don't understand or may "not seem right".

Qualifications:

Education: Essential: Program Graduate. Nonessential: Doctorate Degree, Master's Degree. Education specialization: Essential: Accredited College of Pharmacy. Nonessential: Pharmacy, Business or Healthcare Related Discipline.

Experience: Essential: 5 years directly related experience. Nonessential: No preferred experience.

Credentials: Essential: CPR for Healthcare/BLS Prov or Prof Rescuers w/in 30 days, Pharmacist License in New Mexico. Nonessential: Advanced Cardiac Life Support Certification, PALS.

Physical Conditions: Medium Work: Exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Physical Demand requirements are in excess of those for Light Work.

Working conditions: Essential: Minor Hazard - physical risks dirt dust fumes noise. Subject to an annual contract and performance appraisal. Tuberculosis testing is completed upon hire and additionally as required. Relocation Assistance Available.