Pharmacy Director - Infusion Services

Southlake Campus

Position Summary / Career Interest:

The Pharmacy Director provides effective leadership and direction for Infusion Services and strategically identifies, internalizes, and communicates the critical success factors necessary to support Health-System and Pharmacy Enterprise goals. This leader develops, maintains, communicates, and executes a vision and plan for continual improvement and the provision of exceptional quality services across clinical, patient care, patient safety, pharmacoeconomic, operational, and personnel dimensions. This Director also cultivates and maintains excellent multidisciplinary relationships with physicians, nurses, case managers, and senior leadership. This role also supports the achievement of departmental goals, works effectively with the management team to accomplish organizational objectives, and identifies and resolves problems at the departmental level. The leader effectively uses appropriate financial concepts and tools to analyze situations and make financial decisions that support the achievement of short- and long-term departmental financial goals.

Responsibilities and Essential Job Functions

• Demonstrates competence in the areas of critical thinking, interpersonal relationships, and technical skills.
• Demonstrates ability to provide care/service safely and efficiently for the care of each patient.
• Coordinates the compounding of, dispensing of, and record keeping related to medications for all patients. Coordinates timely drug distribution from the generation of the medication order until administration of the medication using a team approach to empower pharmacy staff.
• Coordinates the provision of patient-focused pharmaceutical care through the following functions: rational, safe and cost-effective drug therapy management, patient education, drug and poison information, procurement of pharmaceuticals and active participation on the multidisciplinary healthcare team.
• Provides effective leadership and direction to the Department of Pharmacy. Able to strategically identify, internalize and communicate the critical success factors necessary for the Pharmacy to support Hospital and Pharmacy goals.
• Develops, maintains, communicates and executes a vision and plan for continual improvement and provision of exceptional quality pharmacy service including; clinical, patient care, medication safety, pharmacoeconomic, operational and personnel dimensions.
• Serves as an effective communicator of the organization's vision and goals and the Pharmacy Department's role in achieving those.
• Expresses ideas clearly and effectively (gaining agreement and/or understanding), by adjusting language, terminology and style to the characteristics and needs of the audience as well as the venue for the communication.
• Cultivates and maintains excellent rapport with Physicians, Nursing, Executive groups as well as other pertinent areas of the Hospital.
• Manages his/her responsibilities in a way that supports the achievement of departmental goals. Works effectively with others in the management team to accomplish organizational goals and to identify and resolve problems at the departmental level. Skillfully administers, directs and allocates all organizational resources.
• Leads the department to achievement of excellent pharmaceutical care by providing vision for the development of exceptional quality pharmacy services, assuring accountability and facilitating effective communication relative to these initiatives.
• Monitors departmental productivity and communicates both requested information and data deemed pertinent to the Executive Team. Adapts to meet service, quality, and cost expectations utilizing data.
• Participates in Hospital committees and interdisciplinary efforts to enhance medication use and control medication costs, by providing vision for quality and service initiatives to improve patient care. Including, but not limited to:
  - Pharmacy and Therapeutics Commitee and Subcommitees
  - Medical Director - Hospital Director Partnerships
  - Other appropriate Hospital or Medical Staff Committees
• Effectively uses the appropriate financial concepts and tools to analyze situations and make financial decisions that support the achievement of short and longer-term departmental objectives.
• Manages to meet fiscal goals and works with Hospital Administration on budget management.
• Conducts pharmaceutical procurement and resource utilization with economic and clinical consideration.
• Demonstrates personal effectiveness in leading the unit/team towards its goals.
• Models appropriate values and maintains and promotes social, ethical and organizati