Pharmacy Accreditation Manager

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POSITION SUMMARY:

In this role, you will take charge of identifying, planning, organizing, and leading the accreditation service program, which provides support and focus on attaining, maintaining, and re-accrediting client programs.  Your focus will be on evaluating client progress toward accreditation goals, with a core focus on patient care, regulatory compliance, and subject matter expertise in accreditation needs of specialty pharmacies.

Clients of Clearway Health represent a diverse landscape of care delivery, so the ability to organize and standardize processes to meet the demands of accreditation will be your focus. You will be responsible for advising and leading specialty pharmacy accreditation at our client sites and will complete gap analyses, assist with process design and policy development; and coordinating the accreditation journey. Proficiency in system design, reengineering, project management, quality improvement, outcomes measurement, and statistical analysis is essential for success in this role. A comprehensive understanding of contemporary outpatient/retail/specialty pharmacy practice is required to effectively manage department operations, including strong experience in quality improvement, personnel management, and supervision.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES/DUTIES:

• Lead a team of accreditation specialists and coordinators who lead the Clearway Health’s client organizations in their accreditation journey.
• Delegate and organizes department responsibilities to subordinates in conjunction with the Senior leader of the Pharmacy Services team
• Serve as the subject matter expert on pharmacy accreditation within the organization
• Coordinate, plan, and resource based on expected accreditation demands, including initial and reaccreditation, and accreditation maintenance between cycles, for existing and new clients
• Organize and lead the team responsible for coordinating submission of required data elements to data validators each year, as required by accreditation standards.
• Assist other Clearway Health employees with crafting appropriate governance/oversight programs for their respective specialty pharmacies and provide guidance when questions arise.
• Aid others when implementing new accreditations and/or updated standards when published and assists the responsible area in implementing change within required timeframes.
• Interface with health-system partners’ quality committees, and departments in the review of quality improvement data and in the implementation of appropriate interventions to effect improvement
• Develop specialty pharmacy policy and procedure templates related to qua