Retail Pharmacy Manager

COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER – RETAIL PHARMACY MANAGER

This unique and rewarding opportunity provides the ideal candidate an environment to utilize both their pharmacy operations and business skills in addition to clinical ambulatory pharmacy expertise, in a growing community health center system.  This role not only allows you to utilize your clinical skills to their fullest but also to make a significant impact and build meaningful relationships with patients and other healthcare professionals.

The Retail Pharmacy Manager will grow the Health Center’s first entity owned pharmacy.  The ideal manager will be an enthusiastic and compassionate team member.  Our work culture focuses on exceptional patient care, operational excellence, diversity and inclusion, cultural competency and continuous learning. Our Health Center network is a Patient Centered Medical Home health organization, that is committed to operational and clinical excellence, comprehensive and high quality of care for its patients.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and organized pharmacist who can make our patients feel at home with our pharmacy. Familiarity with the 340B program is a plus, but we will teach you everything you need to know to be successful. If you have been working in pharmacy and feel like there must be more out there, then this opportunity is for you.

Cardinal Health Innovative Delivery Solutions

With over 45 years of experience in helping hundreds of outpatient and hospital pharmacies, we provide access to best practice strategies and tactics to control costs, improve workflow and enhance safety. Cardinal Health is the employer of choice for pharmacists because we offer a variety of career opportunities in pharmacy leadership, clinical specialties, remote order entry, business management, medication therapy management and more. 

This position is located at Spectrum Health Services, Department of Pharmacy Services

Hours of Operation (subject to change to accommodate clinic growth)

Monday - Friday: 8:30am to 5pm, Saturday -Sunday: Closed

Community Health Center - Retail Pharmacy Manager

Cardinal Health Community Health Center programs are designed and created specifically for healthcare facilities.  Our comprehensive suite of pharmaceutical solutions, allows us to address population health management needs across the continuum of care, from HRSA compliance to medication adherence. Serving the patient is our main priority, and that’s why our solutions improve patient access and increase quality of care.

Cardinal Health is looking for a highly motivated pharmacist interested in managing a company owned 340B Contract Retail Pharmacy located within a partner health center. Our pharmacists play an important role in delivering medication and pharmaceutical care in communities that are most in need. This includes immunizations, patient consultation, medication therapy management, and management of high risk patients.

Responsibilities:

•  Collaboration with administrative and physician leadership within partner Community Health Centers to implement pharmacist driven clinical and dispensing services to the patients served

• Develop and implement collaborative practice agreements to help drive patient medication compliance for high risk patients

• Implement best practices and ensure department compliance with 340B rules and regulations

• Ensure adequate staffing is present to fulfill the needs of the pharmacy and health center.

• Maintain accurate records of all prescription medication received and dispensed.

• Ensure policies are in place regarding accurate dispensing and labeling of prescriptions and those policies are followed.

• Recommend, develop and collaborate with Health Center leadership in implementing clinical pharmacy programs to optimize outcomes of our patient populations.

• Ensure that security of the prescription area and its contents are maintained at all times, including the restriction of persons unauthorized by the pharmacist on duty from being present in the prescription area while the pharmacist is temporarily absent but within the premises and the reporting of any thefts and/or diversions of controlled substances are reported upon discovery to the Office of Drug Control and the Drug Enforcement Administration pursuant to Federal and State requirements.

• Ensuring only pharmacists and interns or externs under immediate personal supervision provide professional consultation with patients and physicians.

• Not allowing misbranded, deteriorated, adulterated, improperly stored or outdated drugs or any drugs marked ‘‘sample’’ or with any like designation or me