Director of Pharmacy Acute and Post Acute

Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System • Spartanburg, SC

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About The Position

The Director of Acute and Post-Acute Care Pharmacy Services provides strategic, operational, clinical, financial, and regulatory leadership for acute-care and post-acute pharmacy services across SRHS. The role ensures safe, effective, compliant, and fiscally responsible medication-use systems across assigned areas, including pharmacy operations, clinical pharmacy programs, medication safety, regulatory readiness, staffing, technology, quality improvement, and performance management.

The Director collaborates with pharmacy, hospital, medical staff, nursing, finance, compliance, supply chain, quality, and post-acute leaders to advance patient outcomes, operational consistency, care transitions, workforce development, and system pharmacy priorities.

Requirements

• RPh or PharmD.
• Ten years of acute-care pharmacy practice experience, including a minimum of five years of pharmacy leadership experience.
• Licensed or eligible for licensure as a registered pharmacist by the South Carolina Board of Pharmacy.

Nice To Haves

• PharmD preferred.
• MHA, MBA, MS, or related graduate degree preferred.
• Completion of ASHP-accredited PGY1 and/or PGY2 residency training preferred.
• Five or more years of progressive hospital or health-system pharmacy leadership experience, preferably in acute-care pharmacy operations.
• Experience leading inpatient pharmacy operations, clinical pharmacy services, medication safety, regulatory readiness, sterile and non-sterile compounding oversight, controlled substance accountability, pharmacy automation, staffing models, budget management, and interdisciplinary performance improvement.
• Experience supporting pharmacy services across related care settings, including post-acute, rehabilitation transitional care, or long-term acute care.
• Experience developing pharmacy leaders, advancing clinical pharmacy programs, supporting accreditation survey readiness, and using pharmacy performance metrics to improve safety, quality, efficiency, and financial performance.
• Board certification, advanced pharmacy leadership certification, or related professional certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide system-level leadership and oversight for acute and post-acute pharmacy services across SRHS.
• Direct pharmacy operations, clinical services, medication distribution, compounding, controlled substance management, automation, procurement, inventory, and medication-use systems.
• Develop and maintain policies, procedures, protocols, and standard work to ensure safe, compliant, and patient-centered medication management.
• Lead post-acute pharmacy services, ensuring medication safety, regulatory readiness, consultant-pharmacy coordination, and continuity of care.
• Develop staffing models, workforce strategies, succession plans, competency programs, and operational support plans to ensure reliable service delivery.
• Partner with organizational leaders to align pharmacy services with strategic, operational, regulatory, quality, and patient care priorities.
• Lead initiatives to improve medication safety, clinical outcomes, regulatory readiness, operational performance, cost stewardship, patient experience, and workforce engagement.
• Ensure compliance with applicable laws, regulations, accreditation standards, USP requirements, and organizational policies.
• Establish, monitor, and act on key performance indicators related to quality, safety, productivity, financial performance, inventory management, and service excellence.
• Recruit, develop, coach, and manage pharmacy leaders and staff while fostering a high-performance culture.
• Advance pharmacy practice, interdisciplinary collaboration, technology, informatics, analytics, automation, and workflow optimization; represent pharmacy in organizational and external forums.
• Manage operating and capital budgets, productivity expectations, and pharmacy expenses.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director