Pharmacy Director
Saint Joseph Health System

Employment Type:
Full time
Shift:
Day Shift

Description:
Responsible for the 24-hour operation of the Pharmacy Department. Driven to meet and exceed customer expectations. Responsible for achieving established financial budget outcomes. Selects, develops, and maintains a team of competent staff. Holds self and team accountable for achieving the highest level of quality of care, customer service, and employee satisfaction, and recognizes the contribution for desired results.
Why Saint Joseph Health System?
Saint Joseph Health System is a not-for-profit, multi-hospital health system located in North Central Indiana.

Our system includes:
• 254-bed acute-care hospital at the Mishawaka Medical Center
• 58-bed acute-care hospital at the Plymouth Medical Center
• More than 85 providers in the Saint Joseph Physician Network

What we offer:

***Daily Pay***

• Benefits first day of employment (including: medical, dental, vision, PTO, life, STD/LTD)

• Competitive compensation and benefits packages including medical, dental and vision coverage
• Retirement savings account with employer match
• Generous paid time off programs
• Employee referral incentive program
• Tuition/professional development reimbursement
• Nursing Scholarship opportunities

At Saint Joseph Health System, our values give us strength. That character guides every decision we make - even when those decisions are complicated, costly, or hard. We honor our mission to care for every man, woman and child who needs us by investing in technology, people and capabilities that allow us to set the standard for quality care.

JOB DUTIES
1. Actively demonstrates the organization's mission and core values, and conducts oneself at all times in a manner consistent with these values.
2. Knows and adheres to all laws and regulations pertaining to patient health, safety and medical information.
3. Develops, secures approval of, implements, monitors adherence to, and administers departmental policies and procedures, and ensures they are in compliance with all federal and state laws and regulations.
4. Recommends and implements agreed-upon long and short term departmental goals and objectives in order to enhance department services. These goals are aligned with corporate goals and objectives.
5. Prepares, secures approval of, and administers departmental capital expense and operating budgets. Monitors adherence to budgets and initiates corrective action as necessary.
6. Develops and administers all pharmacy programs and services, ensuring prompt and accurate preparation and distribution of drugs and other pharmaceuticals to patients.
7. Evaluates new pharmaceutical drugs, supplies, and equipment, and prepares written reports for senior Hospital management detailing findings. Makes recommendations for acquisition of new or additional pharmacy equipment and supplies.
8. Interviews, hires, evaluates the performance of, and when necessary, disciplines and discharges associates. Provides guidance and direction to supervisors in resolving complex employee relations matters.
9. Develops and maintains a quality control program, ensuring department functions in accordance with all Hospital standards, government and accrediting agency regulations, and the like.
10. Reviews inventory to ensure medications are properly stored and controlled, supplies are rotated, out dated stock is removed from inventory and returned to the necessary agency, inventory reorder points are efficient, and adequate quantities are available.
11. Develops and maintains an effective drug information service for physicians and other Hospital personnel in order to disseminate such information as warnings issued about certain drugs, incompatibility of drugs, new medications, and so forth.
12. Monitors processing of pharmacy charges, ensuring medications and supplies are properly entered and payments credited to each patient's account.
13. Develops and/or provides for in service education and up date programs for the pharmacy department as well as other hospital associates.
14. Regularly contacts pharmaceutical vendors in order to obtain bids and/or negotiate prices; establishes approved vendor sources and department purchasing parameters; and oversees acquisition, storage and distribution of supplies.
15. Duties & responsibilities include accuracy of documenting services and supplies provided to patients, including those that may produce patient charges. If designated as a "Revenue Lead", additional responsibilities will include revenue reconciliation and charge-error correction as specified by departmental process and hospital policy.

16. Performs other duties consistent with purpose of job as directed.

JOB SPECIFICATIONS AND CORE COMPETENCIES

Education: Requires the knowledge of theories, principles, and concepts normally acquired through the completion of a Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy or successful completion of the foreign pharmacy equivalency exam. Residency, PharmD or Master's degree in Pharmacy or Management preferred.
Licensure: Current Licensure as a Pharmacist by the State(s) of Indiana as required to complete essential job functions.
Experience: Must have a proficiency in the practice of pharmacy with an emphasis in supervisory/managerial skills, pharmacokinetic monitoring, nutritional consults, and drug information services that is usually obtained from graduation of an accredited college of pharmacy or passing of a pharmacy foreign equivalency examination and 4 to 6 years of hospital/institutional pharmacy practice experience. ASHP requirements must be met for the director of pharmacy overseeing the pharmacy residency program.
Other Job Requirements:
Must demonstrate independent critical thinking skills and the ability to appropriately and effectively convey concepts to a diverse population of persons with varied educational experience.
Assigned hours within your shift, starting time, or days of work are subject to change based on departmental and/or organizational needs.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Trinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.

Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.