Supervisor, Pharmacy Technician - Oncology/Infusion

Essential Responsibilities

• Solicits and acts on performance feedback; provides team members with feedback; and mentors and coaches to drive performance improvement.
• Pursues professional growth; provides training and development to talent for growth opportunities; supports execution of performance management guidelines and expectations.
• Implements, adapts, and stays up to date with organizational change, challenges, feedback, best practices and processes.
• Fosters open dialogue, supports, mentors, engages, and motivates team members on collaboration.
• Delegates tasks and decisions as appropriate; provides appropriate support, guidance and scope.
• Supervises and coordinates daily activities of designated work team or unit by monitoring the execution and completion of tactical action items and work assignments; ensures all policies and procedures are followed.
• Aligns team efforts and standards, and measures progress in achieving results; determines and carries out processes and methodologies; resolves escalated issues as appropriate.
• Develops work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; coordinates, obtains and distributes resources.
• Removes obstacles that impact performance; identifies and recommends improvement opportunities; influences teams to execute in alignment with operational objectives.
• Leads team to carry out implementation and development of drug therapy by: overseeing efforts for proper drug use management across a team; teaching team members how to create moderately complex content regarding utilization of medicine; collaborating with senior health care providers to gather relevant sources on potential changes within the market and upcoming new drugs; collaborating across teams/functions to provide input and oversee standard pharmacotherapeutic drug regimen guidelines and trainings; guiding team to ensure members, patients and/or healthcare providers understand appropriate use, application, and interactions of prescribed medication and provides drug information to relevant healthcare providers; driving application of strategies to ensure achievement of member financial and therapeutic objectives; and evaluating teams reports of member data to assess plan outcomes and carrying out action plans to affect change.
• Oversees drug education and training efforts by: proactively supervising team to provide complex pharmacy and provider education to positively impact patient compliance and prescribing practices.
• Provides pharmaceutical patient care and drug therapy by: managing productive relationships with care providers and members; organizing teams workflow and execution of comprehensive pharmaceutical information e.g., drug therapy, adverse effects, compliance, appropriate use, and handling); leading team to research, organize, identify issues, and/or recommend patient-specific drug therapy plans while evaluating progress of therapy through interviews, physical assessment, patient education and clinical laboratory monitoring, independently; modeling, collecting, analyzing, identifying trends, and/or presenting therapeutic workflow outcomes to health care providers to collaboratively identify drug plan improvements, independently; leading implementation process, evaluating, and reporting utilization, as appropriate, of targeted medications and medication classes, strategizing novel work to assure safe, rational and cost-effective prescribing; supervising the development, implementation, and analyzation process of clinicians or department-level decisions, support, and feedback utilizing tools driving support for the drug use process; and supervising improvements to and coordination of complex pharmaceutical care and optimal utilization of resources to and from hospital, acute, and ambulatory patient-care settings.
• Leads team to monitor services in compliance with state and federal laws, all regulatory bodies, established quality standards and organizational service standards by: supervising adherence to all regulatory rules and regulations (e.g., Drug Enforcement Administration [DEA], State Board of Pharmacy, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act [HIPAA]) and relevant internal regional and national policies; ensuring team and self are up to date with policies and procedures and performs in accordance with applicable regulatory requirements and accreditation standards as they relate to the assigned department; encouraging reporting, conducting investigations of, responding to, and resolving escalated member inquiries and concerns from team; and supervising team to collaborate with physicians, other medical professionals, and health plan personnel to assess, resolve, and assure quality and process outcome measures.

Ambiguity/Uncertainty Management

• Attention to Detail
• Business Knowledge
• Communication
• Constructive Feedback
• Critical Thinking
• Cross-Group Collaboration
• Decision Making
• Dependability
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Support
• Drives Results
• Facilitation Skills
• Health Care Industry
• Influencing Others
• Integrity
• Leadership
• Learning Agility
• Organizational Savvy
• Problem Solving
• Short- and Long-term Learning & Recall
• Strategic Thinking
• Team Building
• Teamwork
• Topic-Specific Communication
• Commercial Customer Quality
• Confidentiality
• Cost Optimization
• External Health Care Compliance
• Service Focus
• Stakeholder Management

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Healthcare Administration Psychology, Pharmacy, Biology, or related field AND minimum four (4) years of experience in Pharmacy or a directly related field OR Minimum seven (7) years of experience in Pharmacy or a directly related field.
• Pharmacy Technician Certification (Washington) required at hire
• Valid Pharmacy Technician license in state where care is provided.
• One (1) year of experience in a leadership role of a large matrixed organization.
• Iv compounding (sterile) experience strongly preferred - both hazardous and non-hazardous drugs