AVP Pharmacy
About the role
The AVP will lead the provision of pharmaceutical care through strategic planning and clinical oversight, focusing on WVUH, MBR Cancer Center, Chestnut Ridge Hospital, and WVU Medicine Children’s.
Responsibilities
- Promotes the safe, effective, rational, and cost-effective use of medications at WVUH and clinics/practices.
- Directs comprehensive drug distribution systems.
- Directs clinical pharmacy services.
- Serves as the primary contact in terms of interdepartmental communication.
- Develops goals and plans for implementation for future directions of the Department.
- Promotes the professional development of staff members.
- Encourages the use of Total Quality Management techniques as a means of improving the products of the Department.
- Utilizes key financial and productivity tools to manage and allocate resources of the Department.
- Identifies, and works to rectify, budget variances.
- Promotes programs which stress cost-effectiveness while maintaining quality.
- Affords pharmacy regulatory guidance and compliance.
- Directs operational deployment of automation.
Requirements
Minimum qualifications include a current license as required by the state board where services will be provided or be license eligible, with licensure completed within 100 days of hire. Experience in health-system pharmacy administration, completion of a PGY-2 health-system pharmacy administration residency program, or completion of a non-health-system pharmacy administration PGY-2 residency program is preferred. Education, certification, and/or licensure include a Master of Business Administration, Master of Health Administration, Master of Science in Health System Pharmacy Administration, or Master in Public Health, and certification through the Board of Pharmacy Specialties.
Qualifications
- Seven (7) years inpatient and/or health-system pharmacy administrative experience.
- Master of Business Administration, Master of Health Administration, Master of Science in Health System Pharmacy Administration, or Master in Public Health.
- Certified through the Board of Pharmacy Specialties.
- ASHP Accredited Pharmacy Residency training, preferably in health system administration.
- Prior experience in a large, progressive, academic healthcare setting.
Skills and Abilities
- Ability to work under stressful working conditions.
Benefits
Not specified.
Pay
Not specified.
Schedule
Not specified.