The Director of Pharmacy is responsible for overseeing all medication storage and preparation in the health system or organization. The director of pharmacy ensures that the pharmacy provides optimal services; meets all legal, accreditation, and certification requirements; and complies with all applicable policies, procedures, codes, and standards of the organization.
Principal Duties/Responsibilities
- Develops and enforces policies and procedures that promote cost-effective, appropriate, and safe medication use
- Develops and maintains a medical staff-approved formulary
- Supervises medication storage and preparation areas throughout the facility
- Provides for the educational needs of health care professionals, patients, and their families
- Ensures maintenance of an adequate medication supply
- Ensures the integrity of the medication supply
- Establishes specifications for the procurement of medications, chemicals, and biologicals
- Ensures strict control and accountability for medications dispensed to patients or distributed to floor stock
- Assures adequate control and documentation of controlled substances
- Ensures applicable continuing education records and licensure are maintained in department files
- Supervises all pharmacy personnel and recruits, interviews, promotes, disciplines, and terminates pharmacy staff
- Develops job descriptions and performance standards
- Evaluates and counsels staff on their performance
- Prepares work schedules and monitors workload statistics
- Maintains an appropriate staffing level
- Provides for the educational needs of the pharmacy staff
- Prepares a pharmacy budget annually
- Reviews monthly financial statistics and plans expenditures within budget guidelines
- Monitors and justifies all expenses exceeding budgeted targets
- Ensures preparation and submission of patient charges and financial reports to administration in accordance with policy
- Administers reports, documents, payroll records, statistical surveys, and other required data
- Ensures compliance with health system policies and procedures that apply to pharmacy services
- Ensures compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws, rules, and regulations
Qualifications
- Pharmacy Degree - Bachelor of Science (BS) or Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD)
- 1 to 5 years hospital experience with 3 to 5 years in a management position preferred
- Strong communication skills
- Proven Profit and Loss (P&L) responsibility and results
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