Director, Pharmacy

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Direct all inpatient/hospital outpatient pharmacy operations.
• Develop departmental strategic goals aligned with hospital objectives.
• Provide leadership to pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and support staff.
• Recruit, hire, train, mentor, evaluate, and retain pharmacy personnel.

Clinical Pharmacy Services

• Ensure provision of evidence-based pharmaceutical care.
• Oversee clinical pharmacy programs.
• Support antimicrobial stewardship.
• Support opioid stewardship initiatives.

Medications Safety

• Lead medication safety initiatives.
• Oversee adverse drug event reporting.
• Analyze medication errors and implement corrective actions.
• Promote high reliability medication practices.
• Ensure compliance with National Patient Safety Goals.
• Oversee smart infusion pump medication library maintenance.

Regulatory Compliance

• Ensure Compliance With State Board of Pharmacy regulations.
• DEA regulations.
• USP, , and applicable USP chapters.
• CMS Conditions of Participation.
• CIHQ standards.
• OSHA requirements.
• FDA regulations.
• Controlled substance regulations.
• Hazardous drug handling standards.

Pharmacy Operations

• Medication procurement.
• Manage inventory.
• Ensure formulary compliance.
• Direct medication distribution systems.
• Oversee automated dispensing cabinets.
• Sterile and non-sterile compounding.
• Care for medication storage meets regulatory standards.
• Care for medication storage meets regulatory standards.
• Coordinate medication recalls.
• Maintain drug shortage mitigation strategies.

Financial Management

• Develop and manage annual pharmacy operating and capital budgets.
• Familiarity with HealthTrust or other Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) management.
• Participate in 340B oversight if applicable.
• Monitor pharmacy revenue cycle performance.

Quality Improvement

• Develop pharmacy quality indicators.
• Monitor departmental performance metrics.
• Report quality data to leadership.

Pharmacy Informatics

• Collaborate With Information Technology To Optimize electronic health record medication workflows.
• Maintain computerized provider order entry (CPOE).
• Optimize clinical decision support.
• Support pharmacy automation.
• Evaluate new pharmacy technologies.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Direct supervision of: Staff Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians, Pharmacy Residents (if applicable), Pharmacy Students (as applicable).

Pay

Salary range: $150,000 - 170,000.00

Schedule

Not specified

Benefits

Not specified

Valencia County Hospital

Owned by Valencia County and operated through a joint venture between Community Hospital Corporation (CHC) and Lovelace Health System, this startup represents a vital investment in rural healthcare and a unique opportunity to build clinical excellence from the ground up.