Health System Clinical Director of Pharmacy

ABOUT THE MA STATE OFFICE OF PHARMACY (MSOPS):    

The MA State Office of Pharmacy (MSOPS) Pharmacy Distribution Center (PDC) provides medications via central fill in unit dose or blister card form for DDS, DPH, DMH, DOC, and HOC facilities throughout the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

JOB OBJECTIVE: 

Reporting to the Health System Director of Pharmacy (HSD), Director of Pharmacy Operations and Account Management, and Cardinal Health Clinical Director, the Health System Clinical Director plans, organizes, and directs all functions of the MSOPS pharmacy clinical services.   

PRIMARY POSITION ROLES: 

• Maintains a professional presence throughout the system including communications with pharmacy staff and MSOPS leadership; interfaces with client, medical staff, administrative personnel, DOPs, and clinical managers/pharmacists 

• Provides direction to the HSD and Clinical Managers/Pharmacists regarding management of clinical programs and initiatives within the health system that enhance patient care and patient outcome, reduce adverse events, and improve financial performance  

• Ensure that site DOPs and Clinical Managers/Pharmacists maintain the health system clinical programs and therapeutic initiatives  

• Assists HSD and Clinical Managers/Pharmacists with recommendations for management of the cost of sales within the facility 

• Assures pharmacy services and activities are carried out to meet goals and standards of both Cardinal Health and MSOPS as defined by the RFR 

• Participates in the development, maintaining, and updating of pharmacy Policy and Procedure manual for the system within PolicyTech 

• Actively participates in system P&T committee and all other facility P&T committees as defined by MSOPS assuring (but not limited to) the following items are part of the committee meetings: current drug trends, formulary additions, formulary deletions, annual formulary approval, non-formulary drug use, drug shortages, cost control initiatives, updates to the Policy and Procedure manual, annual review of order sets and protocols, black box warning, ADR reporting, pharmacy intervention reporting, controlled substance audit reporting, automation reporting 

• Participates in developing and maintaining an Antimicrobial Stewardship program, in conjunction with multidisciplinary team members 

• Participate in MSOPS committee meetings necessary to enhance practice and patient care 

• Achieve acceptable scores as defined by Cardinal Health on operations assessments/audits (PPA, Regulatory, Accreditation, BOP, etc) 

• Define and manage the activities and performance of pharmacy leadership team and pharmacy staff  

• Recruit, hire, retain, and separate employees using Cardinal Health policies and procedures 

• Arrange/conduct hospital and pharmacy orientation for new