Pharmacy Director - Infusion Services

Position Title

Pharmacy Director - Infusion Services

Southlake Campus

Position Summary / Career Interest:

• Provides effective leadership and direction for Infusion Services. Able to strategically identify, internalize and communicate the critical success factors necessary to support Health-System and Pharmacy Enterprise goals.

• Develops, maintains, communicates, and executes a vision and plan for continual improvement and provision of exceptional quality service including clinical, patient care, patient safety, pharmacoeconomic, operational and personnel dimensions.

• Serves as an effective communicator of the organization's vision and goals and the Pharmacy Department's role in achieving those.

• Cultivates and maintains excellent multidisciplinary rapport with physicians, nurses, case managers and high-level leadership.

• Manages his/her responsibilities in a way that supports the achievement of departmental goals. Works effectively with others in the management team to accomplish organizational goals and to identify and resolve problems at the departmental level. Skillfully administers, directs, and allocates all organizational resources.

• Effectively uses the appropriate financial concepts and tools to analyze situations and make financial decisions that support the achievement of short and longer-term departmental financial goals.

• Supports the ongoing professional development of the management team.

• Actively participates in local, regional, and national professional organizations to facilitate networking and benchmarking.

• Creates and communicates the "big picture" understanding of the health system and works to ensure that Infusion Services support the organization's competitive position.

• Identifies opportunities and needs for new or enhanced pharmacy services to support the mission of the organization.

Responsibilities and Essential Job Functions

• Demonstrates competence in the areas of critical thinking, interpersonal relationships, and technical skills.
• Demonstrates ability to provide care/service safely and efficiently for the care of each patient.
• Coordinates the compounding of, dispensing of, and record keeping related to medications for all patients. Coordinates timely drug distribution from the generation of the medication order until administration of the medication using a team approach to empower pharmacy staff.
• Coordinates the provision of patient-focused pharmaceutical care through the following functions: rational, safe and cost-effective drug therapy management, patient education, drug and poison information, procurement of pharmaceuticals and active participation on the multidisciplinary healthcare team.
• Provides effective leadership and direction to the Department of Pharmacy. Able to strategically identify, internalize and communicate the critical success factors necessary for the Pharmacy to support Hospital and Pharmacy goals.
• Develops, maintains, communicates and executes a vision and plan for continual improvement and provision of exceptional quality pharmacy service including; clinical, patient care, medication safety, pharmacoeconomic, operational and personnel dimensions.
• Serves as an effective communicator of the organization's vision and goals and the Pharmacy Department's role in achieving those.
• Expresses ideas clearly and effectively (gaining agreement and/or understanding), by adjusting language, terminology and style to the characteristics and needs of the audience as well as the venue for the communication.
• Cultivates and maintains excellent rapport with Physicians, Nursing, Executive groups as well as other pertinent areas of the Hospital.
• Manages his/her responsibilities in a way that supports the achievement of departmental goals. Works effectively with others in the management team to accomplish organizational goals and to identify and resolve problems at the departmental level. Skillfully administers, directs and allocates all organizational resources.
• Leads the department to achievement of excellent pharmaceutical care by providing vision for the development of exceptional quality pharmacy services, assuring accountability and facilitating effective…