Pharmacy Director

Job Description

At Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center, we welcome diversity; we encourage, uplift, and are honored to serve people who have been historically underrepresented and underserved. Our mission is to provide high quality, comprehensive, and culturally appropriate primary health care to the communities of Washington and Yamhill counties with a special emphasis on migrant and seasonal farm workers and others with barriers to receiving health care.

We strive to provide an inclusive environment that welcomes and values the diversity of the people we employ and serve.

The Pharmacy Director directs, establishes and plans the overall policies and goals for Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center's pharmacy services and monitors all financial, operational, professional, and clinical activities of the department. This role relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals and a wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected. They will recommend innovations in the practice and function of the pharmacy program to the executive team and carry out mutually agreed upon plans.

This individual delivers quality pharmacy services, collaborating with primary care providers and staff to improve the health of Virginia Garcia patients. Pharmacy services include assisting medical personnel and patients with drug information and identification, developing and sustaining productive patient relationships, evaluating and resolving potential drug therapy problems identified through any and all available sources, chronic disease state management, patient counseling, prescription verification, adherence to state and federal pharmacy laws, and preceptor students, fellows, interns and residents.

• Oversee development and implementation of policies, procedures and protocols for pharmacy program, dispensing and clinical pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, students, residents and other pharmacy staff that ensure the pharmacy department provides optimal pharmaceutical services that meet all legal, accreditation, and certification requirements.
• Ensure that all pharmacy staff is currently licensed/certified/registered and have adequate Continuing Education credits.
• Develop and maintain all necessary pharmacy insurance contracts.
• Monitor and manage pharmacy program budget. Collaborate with CEO and CFO in planning both short and long-term annual budget for pharmacy operations and capital.
• Oversee record keeping of pharmacy transactions necessary to ensure adequate control over and accountability for all drugs as required by applicable state and federal laws, rules and regulations to meet all inspection and other requirements governing pharmacy operations in conjunction with the Pharmacy Operations Manager.
• Support Pharmacy Operations Manager in oversight of staff scheduling to maintain high quality pharmacy services.
• Support 340B Program manager in oversight of VGMHC's 340B program, ensuring contracts procedures and documentation are in compliance with the program.
• Support Lead Clinical Pharmacist in oversight of clinical pharmacy team and alignment of care model with organization priorities and quality metrics.

• Support development of competence assessment programs that ensure all pharmacy staff performs all duties and responsibilities with efficiency and safety, as well as comply with all applicable policies, procedures and standards of Virginia Garcia and the Oregon Board of Pharmacy.
• Provide supervision and coaching of Pharmacy Operations Manager, 340B Program Manager and Lead Clinical Pharmacist.
• Assist pharmacy leaders with supervision and coaching of pharmacist, resident and technician staff including consultation with Human Resources and union on employee disciplinary actions, and timely completion of staff reviews.
• Maintain processes to ensure Pharmacists In Charge/Managers provide adequate supervision of Pharmacy Technicians as required by the Oregon Law, and to ensure quality and compliant customer service, observance of HIPAA requirements regarding patient confidentiality, and the highest…