Pharmacy Manager

Manages all aspects of inpatient Pharmacy staff and functions. This includes responsibility for department budgets, ensuring appropriate levels and types of staffing, all employee relation activities (hiring, evaluations, training, counseling, and terminations), handling pharmacy problems and issues that are escalated to the Manager level, and representing the department and pharmacy function to hospital leadership and other departments.

Peaks Region Specialty Clinical Pharmacy Manager will work Mon-Fri business hours (typically 8-5 though occasional earlier and later meeting times).

This leader is part of Intermountain Ambulatory Pharmacy leadership team and oversees Intermountain embedded specialty clinical pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in the Peaks region (Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming). Key leadership responsibilities include collaboration with specialty and ambulatory pharmacy leaders to ensure high quality delivery of specialty clinical pharmacy services, collaboration and integration with other enterprise and system pharmacy initiatives, growth and management of specialty pharmacy teams, and support for the Intermountain 340B program. The position is a remote but will require some travel (less than 10%) and leader must be licensed in Colorado or Montana.

Job Essentials

Oversees and participates in daily activities required of staff.

Provides and assures appropriate training, mentoring, and professional development of all associated staff to enhance the pertinent skills of all pharmacy team members.

Takes leadership responsibility for all aspects of the pharmacy budget (employee expense and drug expense in particular).

Is responsible to assure support of system and local Pharmacy and Therapeutics decisions and to take a leadership role in assuring hospital support for the Intermountain Healthcare Formulary of Accepted Drugs.

Responsible for oversight of staffing and scheduling of associated pharmacy staff to assure efficient use of human resources. Responsible to assure a safe level of pharmacy services in areas of responsibility.

Responsible for oversight of appropriate, efficient, and safe use of facilities and equipment. Ensures identified quality assurance and improvement of all processes within purview.

Responsible for implementing and/or developing best practices in area of responsibility and assuring those practices are hardwired into daily processes.

Actively engage in and promote scholarly activities and assure those activities are worthy of the standards of excellence established at Intermountain Healthcare.

Responsible for recruiting, hiring, firing, evaluating, and disciplining those employees who are direct reports. Responsible for creating a culture of accountability and assuring associated standards are achieved and documented.

Monitors adherence to established policies, procedures, standard operating procedures, and protocols assuring support of system standards and reciprocal development of best practices. Responsible to oversee teams and team leaders to assure effective and efficient processes and leadership are in place.

Serves as an active member of teams as assigned by the Director of Pharmacy.

Is responsible to ensure accountability of pharmacy staff to site, regional and system directives, including medication management, compliance, customer service, etc. and to work with pharmacy and/or operations leadership as needed to communicate progress.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Pharm D or Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from an accredited university (degree will be verified).

• State license to practice pharmacy and dispense controlled substances.

• Basic Life Support Certification (BLS) for healthcare providers

• Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Certification

• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) Certification 3 years of inpatient pharmacist experience.

• 2 years of leadership experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2+ years' experience working as a specialty clinical pharmacist within a clinic setting (NOT in a specialty dispensing pharmacy like ISP)

• Experience managing pharmacists and pharmacy technicians

• Experience monitoring and reporting on team metrics

• Experience delivering services associated with a 340B funded program

• Board Certification in some area

• Master's degree in related field (MBA, MPH, MS in pharmacy).

• Pharmacy residency, other post-graduate training, and/or board certification.

• Leadership experience.

Physical Requirements:

Hearing/listening, manual dexterity, seeing.

Location:

Peaks Regional Office

Work City:

Broomfield

Work State:

Colorado

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.

$68.62 - $100.82

We care about your well-being - mind, body, and spirit - which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

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