Patient Support Supervisor

At Shields Health Solutions, we pride ourselves on our culture of inclusion, kindness, acceptance, and the difference we make in patients' lives every day. We are tremendously proud to consistently be certified as a ‘Great Place to Work’ several years in a row; we’ve been recognized as a Fortunes Best Workplaces in Healthcare™, Millennials™, and Women™; and a Becker’s Healthcare Top 150 Workplace.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do. We are committed to improving lives by ensuring seamless access to specialty medications, better health outcomes, and an enhanced care experience. That’s why more health system leaders trust us to deliver personalized support and comprehensive solutions that make specialty pharmacy more accessible for the patients who need it most. Through our proven Shields Performance Platform, we help drive the financial sustainability of health systems while prioritizing best-in-class outcomes that patients deserve. With a team of leaders in specialty pharmacy, a track record of success partnering with over 80 health systems, and an unwavering dedication to measurable results, we empower health systems to transform their specialty pharmacy into a driver of growth—ensuring every patient receives the best possible care.

As Shields Health Solutions continues to experience rapid growth and expand our partnerships with leading health systems across the country, we’re actively hiring to support our mission. Our expanding footprint means more opportunities to make a meaningful impact in patients’ lives—so we’re looking for passionate, driven individuals to join our team and continue to grow with us. 

Patient Support Supervisor

Location: Stoughton and Phoenix Area Preferred (other locations considered based on unique situations)

Shields is seeking an experienced person who loves to work with and lead people, has strong management skills, who is highly motivated self-starter who is looking for a challenging career with a fast-growing company in specialty pharmacy management services. Applicants should be results-oriented with a positive outlook and a clear focus on high quality. A natural forward planner who critically assesses their own performance. The ideal candidate should have front-line employee management experience with a background in pharmacy or healthcare. Applicant should be service-oriented, motivational in their style and have a clear focus on performance accountability and employee development. The applicant must be able to work as a member of a close-knit team.

A Patient Support Supervisor is a key leadership position supporting Shields Health Solutions Patient Support team. This position will provide day-to-day leadership for a significant portion of Patient Support Center and will be responsible for leading a team of Patient Support team members. This person is primarily responsible to ensure either/both of the following: Manage all responsible work of assigned sites/clinics and ensure service level metrics are reached in accordance with contract requirements. The leader is responsible for ensuring the adoption and continuity of best practices, providing ongoing support, coordinating coverage, coaching, performance management and professional development of the team, and any other support team members.

Key Responsibilities:

• Directly lead and manage a team of Patient Support Associates to ensure medication adherence through refill management OR timely and accurate prior authorization and financial assistance support to assist patients in obtaining medication.
• Proactively manage support in assigned hospitals and/or clinics to ensure patients receive medications on-time
• Lead and manage a Patient Support team to ensure all service level goals are met and patients receive the highest quality care
• Manage all aspects of ADP, Paid Time Off (PTO), and Time Reports for team members
• Complete audits of team in supported systems required to ensure efficient workflow
• Manage responsiveness to new request in supported systems
• Provide front-line supervision and ongoing coaching and performance management to Patient Support team
• Monitor and acting on all forms of communications between the Patient Support team and other clinical teams as needed
• Work with on-site management at hospital partners for any collaboration calls, such as quarterly calls, kick off calls, as needed calls
• Patient Support team meetings: create agendas, run meeting, follow-up
• Hospital Management meeting: calls with on-site manager to review current status, identify areas for improvement, and areas of success
• Record keeping/notes of all collaboration calls and team meetings
• Provide guidance/assistance/troubleshooting in daily tasks for Patient Support team members as requested by team
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