Administrative Director - Pharmacy(Job Id 10927)

Position: Director of Pharmacy

Location: Maury Regional Medical Center - Columbia, TN

CompleteRx partners with Maury Regional Medical Center, where we are a community dedicated to making every patient's journey a little more uplifting. We have an exciting opportunity for a Director of Pharmacy to provide guidance and strategic direction to our pharmacy team. As the Director of Pharmacy, your leadership will shape the future of our department and enhance patient experience at our 255-bed acute care hospital.

Are you ready to lead a dynamic pharmacy team and make a significant impact on patient care? With a strong focus on patient care and a trusted name in medicine, Maury Regional Medical Center can help you achieve a fulfilling professional career.

Maury Regional Health is one of the nation's top health systems serving its hospitals, clinics, surgery centers, outpatient facilities, and physician practice group.

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Why Join CompleteRx?

You will have the opportunity to lead a team of 50 employees while having the support from CompleteRx's operations team as a resource.

What You Will Do

Assures safe, appropriate, cost-effective medication therapies for patients according to established
policies, procedures, and protocols under the general direction of the Director of Pharmacy:

• Develops, enforces, and maintains policies and procedures that promote and enhance patient outcomes through safe, effective, cost-efficient, and appropriate medication therapy use.
• Assists in the development and maintenance of a formulary approved by the medical staff.
• Coordinates programs designed to minimize medication errors, adverse drug reactions, and medication misuse through improved reporting, analysis, and follow-up through hospital committees and departments involved in the medication use process.
• Coordinates, facilitates, and promotes education, training, competency assessment, and performance improvement of pharmacists, technicians, and healthcare professionals in the medication use process.
• Serves as principal advisor and/or member of hospital committees involved in medication use (Pharmacy and Therapeutics, Infection Control, Laboratory/Pathology, etc.).
• Coordinates policies and procedures concerning pharmaceutical manufacturer representatives in the hospital.

Contributes to the quality and effective operation of the department:

• Supervises pharmacy personnel as assigned by the Director of Pharmacy.
• Provides for the educational needs of the pharmacy staff.
• Reviews monthly financial statistics and plans expenditures within budget guidelines.
• Monitors and justifies all expenses exceeding budgeted targets.
• Ensures compliance with hospital policies and procedures that apply to pharmacy services.
• Ensures compliance with all applicable Federal, State, and local laws, rules, and regulations.

Integrates the department into the organization's primary functions:

• Develop and implement a strategic plan for the pharmacy that supports the mission and goals of the organization.
• Develops and implements pharmacy services in collaboration with associated department services.
• Develops, implements, and maintains a program that improves the quality of pharmacy services and supports the quality improvement plan of the organization.
• Participates in all committees/functions required by the organization including the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee.

Maintains competency required for current job title/position:

• Maintains professional knowledge and skills related to clinical pharmacy through participation in selected pharmacy organization(s).
• Adheres to infection control protocols.
• Document interventions, adverse drug reactions, and medication errors according to established policy and procedures.
• Develops medication usage evaluations biannually or more frequently as deemed necessary by leadership. Collects and analyzes data and generates recommendations based on study results. Presents recommendations to appropriate providers and committees (e.g. P&T Committee). Works with other departments (e.g. nursing, lab, information technology) to implement approved changes to order sets, protocols, and policies in a timely fashion.
• Able to use primary literature together with experience and judgment to assist other healthcare providers with medication-related issues.
• Clinical or operational duties as instructed by leadership which may include but are not limited to:
• Participation in interdisciplinary clinical patient care rounds on medical units (e.g. intensive care unit, antimicrobial stewardship/infectious disease, anticoagulation management, discharge rounds, chemotherapy, pain management, nutrition).
• Responsible for the appropriateness of a medication order, including disease and age-related factors.
• Fosters a team environment by providing orientation and training to new team members.
• Oversee pharmacy technicians assisting with medication distribution functions.
• Maintain accurate patient medication profiles.

What You Will Need

• Bachelor of Science or PharmD degree required.
• Current license to practice pharmacy in the State of Tennessee.
• Completed an ASHP-accredited PGY1 residency and a minimum of 3 years of relevant pharmacy practice experience, or
• Completed an ASHP-accredited PGY1 and PGY2 residencies and a minimum of one year of relevant pharmacy practice experience, or
• Has a minimum of 5 years of relevant pharmacy practice experience if they have not completed an ASHP-accredited residency.
• Board certification is preferred in any BPS specialty.
• Some pharmacy leadership or management experience is required; a minimum of 2 years is preferred.
• Ability to travel to attend conferences, team meetings, etc. Travel is up to 5%.

Compensation & Benefits:

As an employee of CompleteRx, your commitment to learning will be encouraged and supported through ongoing training and professional development. We nurture a collaborative, high-performance culture and offer a challenging career along with a comprehensive benefits package.

Apply Today!

CompleteRx partners with Maury Regional Medical Center.

* Contact our recruiter, Idalia Mendoza at imendoza@CompleteRx.com.

* Or, apply on our careers page - www.CompleteRx.com/careers.

CompleteRx is an Equal Opportunity Employer by choice.