Pharmacist - Lead

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The Pharmacist Lead provides immediate supervision of the daily workflow of the pharmacy department. Assists with operational functioning of the department and staffing. Provides the needed services to meet the needs of the patient care areas, ancillary departments serviced by the pharmacy within the hospital and outpatient clinics.

Supervisory:

• Works on-line providing supervision and monitoring of the daily operational activities within the pharmacy department. Responsible for the scheduling, time management, and attendance for pharmacists, technicians, and interns. Serves as the on-call designee for pharmacy operations. Assists in interviewing, hiring operational pharmacy staff, and performing staff evaluations.

Operations:

• Assists in the planning, coordinating, and troubleshooting activities designed to improve the process comprising the pharmacy department's basic operations. Assists in daily operational duties including order verification/entry, intravenous compounding, checking technician's work, issuing narcotics, and reviewing controlled drug reports, etc. to ensure smooth running of pharmacy. Responsible for the implementation of new procedures for the operational staff as developed by the Operations and Clinical Managers.

Education and

Competencies:

• Provides on-going professional staff development via meeting and in-services. Responsible for orientation, education of all newly hired pharmacists and technicians. Oversees regulatory compliance, ensures all staff pharmacists, technicians, and students comply with institutional or hospital policies. Keeps accurate and complete records of all competencies.

Quality Improvement:

• Assist leaders in investigating incidents reports. Assist the Controlled Substance Pharmacist in reviewing controlled substance discrepancies.

• Preferred: 2 years of hospital pharmacy experience.

• Required:
  
  Degree from US accredited School of Pharmacy.

• Pharmacist
  • Required
  • Issuer:
    Louisiana Board of Pharmacy
  • Licensure Speciality:
    Licensure
  • Entity: TOURO

Variable Hours (United States of America)

LCMC Health is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The above job summary is intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people assigned to this work. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. LCMC Health reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet organizational needs as necessary.