Program Director, Pharmacy - Regional Hospitals

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Organization:

Pharmacy Inpt Operations

Job Summary:

Provides expert leadership in the planning, coordination and direction of pharmacy services throughout Vanderbilt Health inpatient, outpatient and specialty areas. Responsible for the overall performance of the department to maintain and exceed recognized national standards based on accepted patient and health system metrics. Responsible for the clinical and financial impact of pharmacy services, customer satisfaction, and development and education of staff and adherence to acceptance standards of practice regarding research involving pharmaceuticals.

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Position Summary

This position will provide pharmacy quality, safety, compliance, and practice alignment support to regional hospital pharmacy departments in accordance with existing corporate practices.

Description of Institution

Vanderbilt Health is a 1,600-bed tertiary care, academic medical center with comprehensive inpatient and ambulatory care services. The medical center is comprised of 7 hospitals and over 200 clinic locations in the middle Tennessee region. The Department of Pharmacy provides comprehensive pharmaceutical care with a staff of approximately 850 pharmacists, technicians, administrative, and support personnel.

Key Responsibilities

• •Provide consultative support for compliance with The Joint Commission (TJC), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Tennessee Department of Health, and other regulatory and quality standards and best practices for general health-system pharmacy practice.
• •Facilitate with regional hospital pharmacy, medical and nursing leaders to collaborate in the design and implementation of treatment guidelines, protocols, policies, quality improvement projects, and research initiatives that optimize medication use in coordination with campus practices.

Develop institutional regional hospital pharmacy practice related quality goals to ensure alignment with internal and external goals.

• •Support formulary management activities including clinical initiatives, formulary decisions, non-formulary requests for medication use evaluations, adverse event monitoring and reporting, and medication policy development in coordination with campus practices.
• •Maintain front line knowledge of clinical services and evaluate practices to advise on process and resources needed to serve patient pharmacotherapy management needs in coordination with campus practices where appropriate.
• •Via consultative work with regional pharmacy leaders and corporate pharmacy leaders, contribute to departmental goals of medication safety, education, precepting students and residents, collaborative research projects, and other scholarly endeavors.
• •Provide consultative support for managing human resources on a growing team of pharmacists and creates an environment which enhances team morale and facilitates teamwork.
• •Support leadership team in development of staff members by providing substantive feedback on competencies and assessment.
• •Demonstrates clinical/technical/systems knowledge needed to provide consultative recommendations for staff.
• •The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.

Required Qualifications

• •State of Tennessee Pharmacist license.
• •Bachelor's Degree.
• •Minimum of 2 years of relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• •Completion of an ASHP-accredited PGY1 residency training program.
• •MBA.
• •Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) Board Certification.
• •Clinical hospital experience in an academic medical center setting and/or experience working in a community hospital.
• •Experience practicing in a corporate pharmacy leadership environment.

Desired Skills

• •Advanced leadership skills, demonstrating progressive degrees of responsibility.
• •Ability to lead projects and people, and to consistently deliver results.
• •Proficiency in knowledge translation, critical appraisal, implementing evidenced-based strategies, and teaching.
• •Scholarly experience and potential, interest, and participation in academic research.
• •Effective written and verbal communication skills. Ability to establish and maintain working relationships with various members of health care teams.
• •Ability to analyze data and processes to drive improvement.
• •Ability to manage various projects simultaneously, high level of attention to detail, organization, and accuracy.
• •Knowledge of and experience with accreditation standards and regulations related to stewardship.

Position Shift

Day Shift

Technical Capabilities

• •Mentoring & Coaching (Advanced): Demonstrates high levels of training and mentoring expertise in challenging and complex situations. Often takes a lead role in highly pressurized situations when there is a need to achieve training results. Consistently provides training and mentoring in a creative and imaginative manner while setting a standard for others. Knows how to use failure as a learning process in a constructive way, replacing contention and conflict with enthusiasm and confidence. Personalizes the impact of behavior on performance and assignments. Has a proven track record of providing constructive suggestions, facilitating implementation of programs and improvements, recognizing achievements individually and reinforcing success.
• •Program Management (Intermediate): Demonstrates mastery of program or product administration in practical applications under difficult circumstances [e.g., deadlines, complex requirements.] Possesses sufficient knowledge, training, and experience to be capable of successfully delivering program or product results without support and instruction from others. Able to train and educate by setting examples, giving technical instruction, providing leadership, and generally raising the level of performance of others while on the job.
• •Medication Management (Expert): Is a recognized expert and authority in Medication Management. Occupies the position that is the last internal resource for support or direction. Takes the lead role in developing best practices in medication management. Has the ability to determine the clinical appropriateness of each medication taken by the patient, determine the appropriateness of the dose, dosage form, indication, contraindications, potential adverse effects and potential problems with concomitant medications. Able to monitor for therapeutic duplication or other unnecessary medications, interpret, monitor and assessing patient's laboratory results as they relate to medication therapy and provide drug information to other healthcare professionals, patients and their families.
• •Pharmacy Data Management (Advanced): Demonstrates the ability to apply diverse areas of business knowledge to successfully meet broad Data Management objectives. Able to converse intelligently with users, customers, and management on the impact of this technology. Capable of discerning the impact of subtle changes in business and technology, and their impact on Data Management.
• •Pharmaceutical Drug Preparation & Dispensing (Intermediate): Demonstrates proficiency in drug preparation and dispensing including practical applications of a difficult nature. Possesses sufficient knowledge, training, and experience to review, prepare and dispense prescr