Pharmacy Director

Position Title: PHARMACY DIRECTOR & 3 Registered Pharmacists

Pay Scale: $4,500/ 3, 000.00 per week

Position: Travel Contract – Pharmacy Director

Location: El Centro, CA

Duration: Indefinite

Essential Requirement

California license. The candidate must be a PharmD holder or Registered Pharmacist with experience in programmatic initiatives, workflow development, 340b, retail, and new pharmacy regulations, including USP compliance. The candidate must be able to start immediately. Consulting or a new pharmacy setup in California is required.

Position Summary

Under broad policy guidelines, the Pharmacy Director is responsible for the total operation of the pharmacy service. The director must provide departmental planning and formulate policies and procedures for the pharmacy service. The director or co-directors may assist in teaching students, nurses, and house staff members, where applicable.

The director devotes a portion of his/her time to the administrative and management activities of the pharmacy.

Demonstrated knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the patient's age served on his or her assigned department/unit.

The individual must demonstrate knowledge of the physiological, psychosocial, and emotional needs of the patient as related to age, possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status, interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements and provide the care needed as described in policies and procedures.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• 1. Has the knowledge of and the ability to maintain established hospital and department policies and procedures, objectives, continuous quality control, oversight of operations, customer relations, safety, environmental and infection control.
• 2. Assumes overall responsibility for pharmacy service and operations, by established policies and procedures of the hospital.
• Is responsible for all medication and IV solution distribution, security, and storage in the hospital.

3. Assumes overall supervision of the pharmacy staff, including all hospital pharmacy-related areas, during hours of operation. Will also assign/schedule a pharmacist responsible for on-call duties.

4. Responsible for coordinating all pharmacy activities with other ancillary medical/ technical/ financial departments. Includes drug distribution, clinical, and billing issues.

5. Includes responsibilities of hospital pharmacist when working in roles or duties as staff pharmacist, including operational and patient care functions. All pharmacy employees (pharmacists, interns, and technicians) are under the supervision of the pharmacy director or co-directors. All pharmacy technicians are under the supervision of a registered pharmacist.

6. Performs all aspects of patient care in an environment that optimizes patient safety and reduces the likelihood of medical/health care errors. Supports and maintains a culture of safety and quality.

7. Attends and participates on hospital committees such as the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee, Infection Control, and other similar relevant committees. Will attend various medical committees as needed for discussion and approval of medication orders and protocols

8. The Pharmacy Director(s) will prepare and be responsible for the inspections by the Joint Commission, California Department of Public Health and other regulatory agencies as relates to the Pharmacy operation and medication management.

9. Must have knowledge of medications in performing the functions of a hospital pharmacist.

10. Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with physicians, nurses, patients, and other professional personnel. Ability to communicate both administratively and professionally and to exercise sound judgment using initiative consistent with a high level of expertise.

11. Must be capable of handling a heavy volume of work over an extended period of time. Must also be capable of handling busy and stressful situations as related to the Pharmacy operation.

12. Must maintain accuracy in verifying medication orders and checking medications dispensed.

13. Must have a basic knowledge of medications in performing the functions of a hospital pharmacist.

14. Must exercise responsible judgment in decision-making involving matters of a confidential nature.

15. Performs other duties as assigned or requested.

ESSENTIAL Management Responsibilities

MANAGEMENT

1. Must possess a direct understanding of goals and metrics.

2. Seek data, develop plans, improve processes, and measure outcomes to continually improve quality, service, and patient safety; this includes management of resources such as productivity and staffing, equipment, supplies, and budgets.

3. Understand how all parts of the organization function and work proactively to grow the business and ensure sustained fiscal viability.

ACCOUNTABILITY

1. Set specific and realistic objectives and tactics.

2. Prioritize work, stay focused on goals, and push forward to bring plans to timely closure.

3. Consider relevant stakeholders and probable consequences, take action, and be decisive.

4. Hold yourself and your staff accountable to deliver results and follow through on commitments.

5. Take responsibility, address issues, and make changes when improvement is needed.

6. Champion and support system-wide initiatives.

TEAMWORK

1. Engage staff in an inspiring vision and explain how work assignments help accomplish the mission.

2. Create an inclusive and positive environment in which staff members feel respected, cared for, valued, and energized.

3. Delegate effectively, provide requisite authority, and encourage individuals to collaborate.

4. Network, negotiate, and build cooperative relationships with others across the system and surrounding communities.

COMMUNICATION

1. Keep staff informed and continually up-to-date on all relevant, work-related information.

2. Anticipate needs and perspectives and adapt communication as necessary.

3. Logically and present key points.

4. Ask for and consider input on ideas, decisions, and plans.

5. Actively listen to ensure understanding and convey empathy, and demonstrate a willingness to consider various perspectives.

6. Address conflict as it arises, with honesty, curiosity and courage, assuming the positive intentions of others.

LEADERSHIP

1. Management sets the standard for performance excellence. To do so, you must be at the work site during hours of operation. Salaried/Exempt management is responsible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. On occasions, you will be called upon to fill in for other managers or for staff who are absent from work. In those cases there will be NO additional compensation for hours worked beyond what may be a typical work period.

2. You are expected to behave ethically and morally at all times.

TIMEKEEPING

1. Management is directly responsible for overseeing the attendance and timekeeping of their staff. This responsibility cannot be delegated.

EVALUATING PERFORMANCE

1. Evaluate the performance of your staff on an ongoing basis. This is not simply an annual event.

2. Employees should be informed immediately if they are “underunderperforming” at any time.

COACHING

1. Celebrate, recognize, and reward individual and team success that models our organizational values.

2. Provide regular learning opportunities to develop individual talents, and increase team effectiveness.

3. Invest time and collect and provide balanced and meaningful feedback on performance; encourage personal and professional growth.

4. Employees who are behaving inappropriately at work or are underperforming in the technical aspects of their jobs should be coached immediately and told what they need to do to get back to standard and remain employed.

FINANCE

1. One of the most important management tasks is the creation and adherence to an annual budget. Your performance in this regard is a large part of your overall responsibility and critical to your longevity with the Medical Center. You are reminded that you are responsible for public funds. They must be managed wisely and prudently at all times.

2. Mismanagement of public funds carries with it the harshest of penalties, including termination. A pattern of overspending your operating budget is one example of mismanagement. Our Medical Center is challenged with operating on a very thin margin, so it is imperative that both income and spending are managed exceptionally well. Nothing less can be tolerated by our Board of Directors or our public.

OVERALL EXPECTATION

1. Management is expected to represent all of the organizational values to their staff and customers; therefore all essential job functions/responsibilities must be performed at a higher standard.

2. Failure to perform one or all of these, may lead to demotion or termination from employment.

ADDITIONAL JOB DUTIES BELOW

INTERPERSONAL SKILLS

1. Consistently demonstrates high level of professionalism, communication, and compassion with regard to human dignity. Model high standard of conduct, honesty and integrity in all situations.

2. Demonstrates professional behavior through compassionate care, self-control, respect for confidentiality and the establishment of trust in all situations.

3. Adheres to professional standards of behavior and communication in the workplace and actively avoids creating or participating in situations that could be considered harassment or unfair to others.

4. Understands the elements of cultural diversity and applies sensitivity in communicating and working with others.

SERVICE QUALITY

1. Demonstrates exemplary customer relations; actively promotes improvement to the working environment through conscientious, sensitive treatment of patients, customers, clients, and other team members.

2. Interacts with all customers appropriately; follows through on requests, concerns or complaints. Practices service recovery.

3. Keeps patient informed concerning their plan of care, treatments, tests medications and pain management (if applicable).

4. Provides physicians or other hospital staff with required information and changes in patient status when calling or responding to inquiries (if applicable).

SAFETY

1. Performs required job skills in a safe, accurate, professional manner meeting department performance guidelines.

2. Adheres to all Environment of Care (EOC), workplace safety and injury prevention standards.

3. Knows emergency codes and appropriate response.

Quality Improvement

1. Measures outcomes so that results consistently meet or exceed established guidelines for quality.

2. Active and productive participant in quality improvement activities of department and/or hospital.

3. Maintains a dedication to excellence. Meets quality standards for job. Work is accurate and complete.

4. Knows and applies Focused-PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Act) methodology.

5. Actively participates in reducing errors, eliminating waste and assuring patient safety.

Flexibility/adaptability

1. Seeks opportunities to expand participation outside the normal job function.

2. Willingly assists and performs other duties as required.

3. Actively engage in new initiatives, learn and adopt new work methods and embrace change in a positive productive manner.

Self Development

1. Attends and participates in departmental in-services.

2. Attends educational classes provided by the hospital to improve job performance, learn new skills, information systems, equipment and technology.

3. Pursues certifications from professional organizations to remain current within scope of practice and attain professional benchmark as described in job description.

4. Attends hospital training, in and outside the organization, and applies knowledge to the job responsibilities on various regulatory and accreditation topics including compliance, HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), patient rights, documentation and others.

Appearance/Attitude

1. Consistently presents a neat and clean appearance in accordance with hospital grooming standards.

2. Maintains and exhibits positive behavior, interaction and responses even under difficult conditions.

3. Be accountable for your actions and decisions.

4. Be a good steward of organizational resources.

ADDITIONAL Requirements

1. Keeps all position required state licenses and certifications current.

2. Maintains all professional licenses and certifications current.

3. Completes all new hire and annual education and validation requirements.

4. Keeps all regulatory required certifications required for position scope of practice.

5. Comply with all legal and regulatory compliance standards.