Manager Clinical Pharmacy - General Pharmacy Tyler, TX

Description Summary

Manager Clinical Pharmacy is responsible for the coordination and development of clinical pharmacy services in coordination with the Director of Pharmacy and the Pharmacy Operations Manager. Responsibilities include ensuring pharmacists provide optimal clinical services daily, acting as departmental liaison in all clinical matters, student preceptorship, intra- and interdepartmental clinical education programs, staff development and clinical competency, oversight and evaluation of the clinical pharmacy staff, and chairing meetings.

The Manager Clinical Pharmacy facilitates the development, implementation and maintenance of systems that promote desirable patient outcomes through the use of safe, appropriate and cost-effective medication therapies. Recommends and/or establishes interdisciplinary teams supporting pharmaceutical care and patient care services. Nurtures collaborative pharmacist-physician and pharmacist-nursing relationships to provide safe, effective, and efficient patient care while ensuring pharmacists are empowered to serve as patient representatives/advocates.

• Meets expectations of the applicable OneCHRISTUS
  
  Competencies:
  
  Leader of Self, Leader of Others, or Leader of Leaders.
• Proficient in living the Mission and Core Values and coach/mentor Ministry pharmacy leaders to optimize performance of pharmacy in each ministry.
• Ensures pharmacists, technicians, interns, and residents receive ongoing training, competency assessment and performance improvement activities to improve patient outcomes.
• Collaborates with providers to maintain an effective hospital formulary based on safety, efficacy, and cost; as well as the development of treatment guidelines / protocols that improve clinical care.
• Oversees and contributes to the Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee. Maintains expertise in assigned clinical pharmacy practice and with current clinical guidelines and literature, clinical assessment and professional communication skills that is appropriate for oversight of clinical pharmacy service lines.
• Coordinate and oversee strategies for antimicrobial stewardship. Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams or stakeholders such as physicians, nurses, and other allied health professionals to ensure best practices, guidelines, policies, and care processes to ensure positive outcomes, decreased morbidity and mortality, and management of drug costs. Produce and review yearly antibiogram. Educate physicians, nursing, staff and patients.
• Coordinate and support strategies for opioid stewardship. Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams or stakeholders such as physicians, nurses, and other allied health professionals to develop and implement best practices, guidelines, policies, and care processes related to opioid prescribing and pain management. Educate physicians, nursing, staff, and patients on pain management and pain expectations, as well as safe opioid prescribing, storage, and disposal.
  
  Ensure safe patient care through the prevention of adverse drug events and improving safe and effective use of opioids while also adequately controlling pain.
• Serve as the pharmacy contact for evidence-based order set review. Facilitate incorporation of drug therapy best practices into the order sets utilizing clinical pharmacy expertise.
• Coordinate and lead strategies to manage industry drug shortages, including development of policies, guidance documents, and tools. Assist with research and coordination of supply chain alternatives (such as development of therapeutic interchanges, conservation strategies, and supply source or contracting alternatives).
• Consult and collaborate with stakeholders such as pharmacists, physicians, nursing, clinical educators, legal counsel, and ethics leaders, as appropriate.
• Assume responsibility for ongoing benchmarking related to clinical pharmacy services, including productivity assessment and impact of clinical services on drug utilization, costs, and medication safety goals.
• Provides appropriate drug information services, in-service education, and communication to keep pharmacy, physician, and nursing staff aware of important changes in pharmacy policy, procedure, or formulary status. Develop pharmacy education initiatives and development and/or improvement of the pharmacy clinical service model.
• Develop, recruit, train, and mentor Clinical Pharmacist, residents, and students.
• Serves as a preceptor for pharmacy students and/or residents from local colleges of Pharmacy, pharmacy…