Lead Pharmacist – Sharp Chula Vista – Variable Shift – Full Time

Sharp HealthCare•Chula Vista, CA

8h•$84 - $121

About The Position

This is a working supervisor position that provides management support, coordinates, and supervises the daily work activity of pharmacists and ancillary personnel during a shift.

Requirements

Education pursuant to licensure requirement.
3 Years experience in pharmacy environment or equivalent healthcare setting.
ACLS Certification (Advanced Cardiac Life Support) - American Heart Association -REQUIRED
California Pharmacist License - CA State Board of Pharmacy -REQUIRED
ACLS is required within 90 days of hire.

Nice To Haves

2 Years in a leadership role.
Geriatric experience.
Pharmacy-Based Immunization Delivery - Various-Employee provides certificate -PREFERRED

Responsibilities

Achieves patient and pharmacoeconomic outcomes
Demonstrates knowledge of and active participation in the retail pharmacy quality assurance program: medication error monitoring and reporting.
Demonstrates thoughtful and thorough identification, evaluation and analysis of triggers/medication use issues that might contribute to adverse drug events and medication errors.
Contributes to improving safe medication practice including the mandatory completion and submission of quality assurance data.
Committee work and participation in efforts to assist Sharp site in any area that would benefit from pharmacy expertise.
Clearly communicates goals and instructions to other staff members, including handoffs between shifts (written/oral); Participates in staff orientation and resident/student training programs.
Effectively intercepts and troubleshoots problems, as demonstrated by effective problem solving, prioritization of issues with respect to level of significance and impact to patient care, safety, workflow, and communication.
When faced with complex situations, has knowledge of and applies the appropriate policies and procedures; effectively evaluates ongoing workflow issues and directs daily workload to achieve efficiency and maximize resource utilization as business needs require; Attends and participates in staff meetings or reviews staff meeting communications; Reads work related email at a minimum on assigned workdays.
Answers phone in timely, friendly manner, stating department, name, and title; Fosters positive relationships through consistent, respectful, professional interactions with customers; Responds to requests in a timely, caring manner that is consistent with Sharp behavior standards, (i.e. attitude).
Effectively demonstrates leadership in the achievement of pharmacy goals by providing daily work direction and supervision of technical and ancillary staff.
Assures and completes assigned workload/projects.
Delegates additional task as needed to efficiently utilize time and quality of work.
Supervises employees for compliance with policy and procedure, disciplinary procedures and company guidelines.
Reconciles daily prescription reports for accuracy and assure pharmacist signature in accordance with State of California Board of Pharmacy (when applicable).
Willing and able to step into any technical role to help achieve a smooth pharmacy work flow during peak business hours.
Effectively troubleshoots actual and potential problems.
Develop and maintain Monitors seasonal trends and competitive activity to maximize sales and profits (when applicable).
Demonstrates good inventory control practices by taking a proactive role to maintain proper and financially responsible levels.
Maintains adequate inventory, takes the necessary steps to ensure an accurate inventory and monitors the inventory process.
Maintains close supervision of gross margins by reviewing daily reports.
Provides staffing at a level which provides excellent service while maintaining profit.
Ability to independently and selectively override cash prescription computer pricing to allow for regional variation or to meet competition (when applicable).
Assures staff performance appraisals are conducted on time.
Sets the agenda and conducts monthly site staff meetings.
Train staff on new procedures to streamline processing and increase productivity.
Participate in peer interviewing to hire new staff.
Ensures that medication dispensed has appropriate expiration date.
Ensures the monitoring and documentation of refrigerator/freezer temperatures daily.
Accurately inventories and orders prescription medications daily prior to end of shift.
Create daily orders of medications and supplies from wholesaler and transmit each morning and evening.
Maintains adequate inventory, takes the necessary steps to ensure an accurate inventory and monitors the inventory process.
Perform all opening and closing procedures and secures the pharmacy according to California State Board of Pharmacy.
Medications are prepared and dispensed accurately and in a timely manner in accordance with recognized standards of practice, legal and regulatory requirements, and pharmacy policies and procedures.
Reviews computerized patient medication profiles for appropriateness of drug therapy, therapeutic duplication, drug allergies, weight, height, minimum and maximum dosing guidelines, age specific requirements, drug interactions and other pertinent factors (when applicable).
Selects, assembles, and compounds all ingredients in the required amounts according to master formulas and special requests, using an extensive knowledge of ingredient properties and characteristics, computational accuracy, measuring systems and devices, and sterile techniques.
Understands and maintains knowledge of contracted third party formularies and plan limitations (when applicable).
Informs patients of any problems or delays of prescriptions including, but not limited to, medications not covered by third parties.
Responds to drug information requests promptly and professionally.
Counsels patients for proper dosage/usage, side effects, duration of therapy, and possible drug/food interactions with current medications consistent with professional standards and OBRA-90 regulations (when applicable).
Assures controlled substances are dispensed with accuracy.
Maintains integrity of all record keeping.
Assist with narcotic inventories as required.
Discovers and investigates discrepancies in narcotic inventory.
Prepares narcotic orders as a supplier to other Sharp pharmacy sites.
Compliance with regulations on controlled substance prescriptions is implemented and adhered to.
Maintains an organized, clean and safe working environment.
Assumes daily responsibility for maintaining financial performance within the department by effective inventory control, accurate cash transactions, assuring proper billing of third-party insurers, providing clinical input on cost-effective therapy and assuring daily flexing of staff hours.
Other assignments as assigned.
Proactively identifies potential medication safety improvement opportunities such as look alike, sound alike medication storage and packaging issues, delivery/storage/security related issues, inventory management issues, etc.
Proactively participates in medication safety event reporting and the development of medication safety initiatives to prevent occurrence or reoccurrence of medication safety events.
Demonstrates awareness of medication safety communications delivered by pharmacy management and the safe medication practice pharmacist.
Clarify and/or verify therapeutic issues or problems with prescribing physician and documents interventions in a timely manner.
Serve as foreign drug information source.
Attend meetings with clinic personnel as needed.
Provide site physician/nursing orientations as needed.
Presents in-services on pharmaceutical care.
Using a keyboard, required to type proficiently and accurately. Ability to type a minimum of 30 words per minute with 0-2 errors. Ability to proof work.