Pharmacist Inpatient

Pharmacy Director

Job ID: 13400

Work Type: Full Time

Shift: Days

Department: Pharmacy - Admin

Category: Clinical Care

City: Albuquerque, New Mexico

Compensation: Minimum Offer $73.58/hr. Maximum Offer $94.51/hr.

Compensation for this role is based on a number of factors including but not limited to experience, education, and other business and organizational considerations.

Position Summary:

Directs, manages, and oversees pharmacy assigned 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:

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. 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 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.