Mgr Pharmacist-In-Charge

SUMMARY:

Reports to Director, Brown University Health Retail Pharmacy Services or Director, Specialty Pharmacy Services as applicable. Responsible for managing all operational, professional, and clinical activities for pharmacy operations at assigned Brown University Health Pharmacy (LP) site. Serves as the designated Pharmacist-in-Charge and Registrant for assigned Brown University Health Pharmacy site and is personally accountable to the Rhode Island (RI) Department of Health (DoH) and federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for the entire scope of activities intrinsic to these designations.

Ensures compliance with state, federal, organizational, and accrediting organization requirements. Ensures appropriate clinical pharmacist, pharmacy technician, and student intern scheduling. Ensures budgetary adherence for labor, payroll, sales, script count, inventory levels and expenses. Completes annual performance appraisal for clinical pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and student interns and serves as coach and mentor to develop staff. Oversees and closely reviews the work of clinical pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and student interns.

Collaborates with multidisciplinary care providers to monitor, assess, and intervene as needed to ensure safe, appropriate, and cost-effective medication use. Brown University Health employees are expected to successfully role model the organization’s values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence, as these values guide our everyday actions with patients, customers and one another. In addition to our values, all employees are expected to demonstrate the core Success Factors which tell us how we work together and how we get things done.

The core Success Factors include:
Instill Trust and Value Differences Patient and Community Focus and Collaborate In addition, our leaders will demonstrate an aptitude for:
Ensure Accountability and Build Effective Teams Drive Vision and Purpose and Optimize Work Processes By applying core and leadership competencies, leaders help Brown University Health achieve its strategic goals. RESPONSIBILITIES:
Pursuant to Pharmacist-in-Charge and Registrant designations at the assigned Brown University Health Pharmacy licensed site is responsible to:

Ensure the assigned LP licensed site meets the requirements set forth by federal and state law,RI Board of Pharmacy rules and regulations, and other applicable state regulations, including those pertaining to:

All pharmacy licensed employee activities, including those beyond direct and indirect reports.

All medication use and storage areas under the pharmacy license.

All dispensing, compounding, order review, collaborative practice, and pharmacy clinical services being performed at the licensed location, even where no direct oversight.

All pharmacy related policies, procedures, laws, rules and regulations and the activities performed under them.

Any controlled substance loss or diversion at the assigned LP licensed location, regardless of role of individual diverting.

All reports of significant controlled substance loss or diversion to State Board of Pharmacy and local Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).Completion of biennial controlled substance inventory and maintenance of required records pertaining to receiving, dispensing, transferring, and reverse distribution of all control substances on site.

Environmental conditions of all medication areas and assurance of pharmacy staff safety.

Maintains knowledge of and compliance with regulations related to compoundingincluding those promulgated by the Rhode Island Department of Health, Rhode Island Board of Pharmacy Rules and Regulations, United States Pharmacopoeia (USP) Chapters 795 and 800, and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).Ensures the highest standards of customer service are consistently executed, and that clinical pharmacist and pharmacy technician scheduling is adequate to meet patient/customer needs.

Ensures clinical pharmacists consistently execute all established standards of service.

Ensures budgetary adherence for labor, payroll, sales, script count, inventory levels, and expenses.

Ensures new budgeted programs, initiatives, and technology are successfully implemented.

Oversees compliance with the 340B drug purchasing program for pharmacies that serve as a contract pharmacy for one or more 340B covered entities.

Ensures quality assurance standards are met, continually seeks out measures for improvement.

Ensures staff…