Director of Pharmacy

Select Medical•Yorktown, VA

10d•Onsite

About The Position

Riverside Rehabilitation Hospital, a joint venture with Select Medical, is seeking a full-time Director of Pharmacy in Yorktown, VA. This role ensures the provision of pharmaceutical services, including clinical pharmacy services, throughout the hospital and maintains necessary liaisons with outside groups. The Director is responsible for the training, support, and performance feedback of direct reports, focusing on departmental objectives, skill expansion, process improvement, and learning. Success is driven by employee engagement, talent assessment, continuous development, cross-training, and succession planning. The Director oversees daily pharmacy operations, reviews and improves operating procedures for quality, productivity, and cost-effectiveness, and performs all duties of a Staff Pharmacist. They develop and implement departmental objectives, determine departmental function and staffing within established standards (Joint Commission, DOH, Board of Pharmacy), and make budget recommendations for equipment and operational expenses, including revenue projections. The Director also serves on hospital committees and communicates pharmacy-related policies to hospital employees, maintaining systems for prescriber signatures and pharmaceutical supply records.

Requirements

Current state licensure as a pharmacist required.
A minimum of three (3) years of hospital experience within the last 5 years required.
Demonstrate ability of efficiently operate a pharmacy within a healthcare organization required.

Nice To Haves

One (1) year in a managerial role preferred.

Responsibilities

Ensures the provision of pharmaceutical services (including clinical pharmacy services) throughout the hospital.
Maintains liaisons with outside groups or agencies as needed.
Ensures that direct reports have received upon hire and continue to receive throughout employment the training, information and support to accomplish departmental objectives and meet job requirements.
Provides regular and accurate performance feedback to direct reports with focus on results, skill expansion, process improvement and learning.
Ensures success of department operations through building employee engagement, effective talent assessment, continual learning and development, cross-training and succession planning.
Initiates, schedules, directs and controls the daily operation of the Pharmacy Department through supervision of department supervisors and staff.
Works with supervisors to review and evaluate operating procedures, policies, methods and techniques and implement change to increase quality of service, productivity and cost effectiveness.
Performs all of the duties of a Staff Pharmacist.
Assures that pharmacy services are provided to patients by developing and implementing the objectives of the department.
Working within established standards (i.e., Joint Commission, DOH, Board of Pharmacy and others), determines the department's function, organization/employee complement.
Makes budget recommendations for capital equipment needs and operational expenses along with a projection of departmental revenues.
Serves on committees as outlined in the Hospital's Administrative Policies and Procedures.
Participates in staff, supervisory and special meetings or projects of committee as required.
Communicates hospital policies and procedures concerning pharmacy services to hospital employees.
Maintains system of identifying signatures for all authorized prescribers, including a system of records for the requisitioning and dispensing of pharmaceutical supplies.