Assistant Director, Adult and Pediatric Inpatient Pharmacy Services

Job Description

Join our world-class academic healthcare system as an Assistant Directors of Pharmacy for Adult and Pediatric Hospital is registered pharmacists responsible for leading personnel, financial, operational, and clinical within the Department of Pharmacy Services to assure medication use is safe, effective, and aligned with evidence-based best practices and regulatory standards. Through various assignments within the department, these leaders manage pharmacy distributive services, facilitate drug utilization initiatives, integrate clinical pharmacy programs, oversee pharmacy information systems, advance medication safety, and assure regulatory compliance.  They manage central and satellite pharmacy areas as well as decentralized pharmacy practice and are accountable for the financial performance and budgetary adherence of their assigned areas and programs.  Assistant Director of Pharmacy also directly manages the activities of pharmacists and technicians and are actively involved in their areas of oversight to assure pharmacy staff remain competent and engaged in customer service, standardized work, and lean processes.  These leaders are proficient in project management and proactively use data analysis techniques to track, benchmark, and communicate the outcomes of their areas to ensure operational, clinical quality, and financial targets are achieved. Assistant Directors of Pharmacy also precept student and resident experiences and lead the development of pharmacy staff training competencies.  In short, Assistant Directors of Pharmacy set and model the standard for excellence for pharmacy practice and design pharmacy programs to collaboratively advance the Comprehensive Pharmacy Practice model.

 

Essential Job Functions 

• Manages personnel, financial, distributive, clinical resources, and day-to-day operations of assigned areas 
• Ensures drug utilization activities as well as medication preparation and distribution systems are aligned with patient care needs, evidence-based best practices, and regulatory standards
• Manages relevant automation to assure safe, efficient, accurate, and reliable medication processes
• Designs initiatives to maximize efficiency of assigned areas and integrates methodologies such as just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing as well as Lean, Six Sigma, and standard work principles 
• Designs and implements new pharmacy programs, quality improvement changes, and continuous quality assurance initiatives to advance medication-use systems and promote optimal patient outcomes
• Tracks and evaluates assigned pharmacy programs for operational, quality, and financial efficiency and routinely benchmarks against local and national best practices
• Identifies and resolves short- and long-term obstacles to patient care and medication safety, regulatory compliance, or stewardship of resources
• Develop and manage policies and procedures for drug purchasing, usage, distribution, and control
• Assists with preparation of an annual budget and manages assigned budgets and financial resources including designing and implementing stewardship, cost control, and restriction/surveillance programs 
• Provides departmental and institutional leadership for medical staff committees/meetings, hospital groups/task forces, and approved external programs/organizations
• Splits their time equally between the adult and pediatric hospital 
• Maintain competent staff by coordinating training for new employees, coaching and mentoring of all employees, and routine communication to staff
• Leads recruitment, interview, and hiring processes for staff in assigned areas
• Develops standards of performance and evaluates staff work and program performance
• Provides positive/constructive feedback, counseling regarding job performance including employee discipline if needed and preparation of staff evaluations  
• Establishes annual performance goals and completes performance appraisals for assigned employees 
• Manages staff development, performance improvement, and rewards/recognition programs for staff
• Maintains appropriate staffing levels of personnel within established budgetary parameters 
• Assigns roles of staff and manages the day-to-day staffing and scheduling of assigned areas
• Ensures consistent departmental operations by initiating, coordinating, and enforcing department, hospital and personnel policies and procedures
• Organizes space, equipment, and services to meet the needs of patients and other customers
• Providing oversight and direction for all central distribution services, including staffing shifts in the central pharmacy (approximately one day per week). 
• Maintains proficiency in and actively engages in operational and clinical pharmacy programs as appropriate for j