Director of Pharmacy - Lifepoint Health

Columbus Springs East, part of Lifepoint Behavioral Health, nationally know healthcare organization with diversified delivery network with facilities from coast to coast, seeks passionate, patient-centric, and goal-oriented team members to join our team. We specialize in compassionate behavioral health services, including crisis stabilization, inpatient care, and outpatient treatment for acute mental health and substance use treatment. Our philosophy is built on a psychosocial model of care to decrease suicide rates, decrease addiction-related deaths, reverse the decline in life expectancy, and improve productivity in the communities we serve. We offer a collaborative work environment, competitive compensation, and flexible scheduling so you can focus on what matters–providing quality patient care. Join our team in Columbus, OH, to build a career that touches lives.

Members of our team Enjoy:

• Working with a highly engaged staff
• Healthy staffing levels
• Flexible scheduling
• Career growth
• Competitive compensation

• UKG Wallet – We’ve partnered with UKG Wallet, a voluntary Earned Wage Access benefit, to offer employees access to their pay on their own schedule.

What you will do in this role:

· Demonstrates administrative responsibilities related to daily operations management.

· Develops goals, objectives, policies, and procedures for departmental operation.

· Works to improve services provided and assure compliance with regulatory requirements.

· Keeps leadership informed of operational activities, needs and problems.

· Drives installation and implementation of new services, procedures, and pharmacy automation products.

· Fosters teamwork throughout the organization.

· Develops and executes Performance Improvement Programs involving pharmacy operations.

· Demonstrates skills in measuring, assessing, and improving organizational performance.

· Encourages professional development of departmental personnel through in-service education and external education.

· Manages the pharmacy team including hiring, training, scheduling, resolving performance issues, coaching, and mentoring.

· Reviews and approves Technician and Pharmacists schedules prior to distribution to staff.

· Meets regularly with pharmacy staff regarding pharmacy operations.

· Develops, implements, and monitors appropriate staffing plans based on factors such as acuity and census.

· Coordinates and facilitates the performance reviews within the organizations recommended time frame using appropriate methods of assessing staff competence.

· Provides oversight for purchasing and inventory management.

· Demonstrates understanding of and complies with JC/CIHQ Standards, HCFA, State and Facility Standards and monitors the facility’s compliance.

· Provides mentoring for pharmacy students on rotation consistent with college requirements.

· Verifies and dispenses physician medication orders with accuracy and timeliness.

· Monitors and evaluates the six critical processes of medication management; determines risk points and is an active participant with physicians and clinical staff in continuous quality and performance improvement.

· Verifies and approves the work of Pharmacy Technician(s).

· Responsible for the management and utilization of the computerized pharmacy system.

· Orders and stores medications, keeping them safe and effective.

· Monitors drug therapy for appropriateness and promotes/ evaluates rational drug therapy that improves pharmaceutical care. Performs anticoagulant monitoring.

· Maintains positive relationships with all customers.

· Provides information to the medical staff and administration regarding the cost effective use of pharmaceuticals.

· Works with physicians, specialists, and other clinicians to implement appropriate guidelines and protocols for drug use based on evidence-based medicine, national guidelines, and literature based protocols.

· Provides drug information to nurses, physicians, and other pharmacists to ensure current information on drug therapy.

· Recommends changes to drug therapy based on patient assessment.

· Provides and documents clinical interventions, therapy recommendations and other clinical activities according to department policy and procedure to maintain accurate and complete patient records.

· Participates in the Medication Reconciliation activities of the Pharmacy Department.

· Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

Education:

· Graduate of an accredited School of Pharmacy with Pharmacist degree. Pharm.D. preferred.

· MBA/MS or equivalent education/experience preferred

Licenses/Certification:

· Current State Certification/Licensure as required by state.

Experience:

· Minimum three years’ experience in hospital pharmacy is desirable.

· Demonstrated management/leadership skills and/or program management.