Vice President, Pharmacy Services

Carle Health•Urbana, IL

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Vice President of Pharmacy is responsible for coordinating the provision of pharmaceutical care across all provider facilities, both inpatient and outpatient. This role establishes the scope of services for pharmacy operations across the organization, evaluates operations on an ongoing basis utilizing principles of continuous improvement, and maintains the highest quality and an appropriate scope to meet local and regional patient care needs. The Vice President acts as a key contributor in providing high quality, cost-effective pharmaceutical care across all Carle sites, develops a strategic plan for pharmacy operations across the system aligned to meet the organization's strategic objectives, and develops and maintains practice standards for all professional staff. This position supports individual professional growth, ensures staff maintains necessary competencies to perform required duties, and collaborates with nursing leadership. The role ensures engagement of nurses within the Pharmacy Division with Magnet and other professional nursing practice tenets. Additionally, the Vice President develops and oversees the pharmacy purchasing strategy to maintain the pharmacy supply chain across all Carle entities, provides oversight for pharmacy contracting, and provides budgetary leadership and oversight for aggregated budgets for all pharmacy locations. The position ensures pharmacy service line accreditation readiness with medication management and pharmacy practice standards for DNV, ACHC, URAC, and other accrediting bodies as appropriate. The Vice President coordinates and oversees pharmacy automation across all Carle locations and coordinates 340B operations system-wide, including split-billing software, contracting, contracted pharmacy oversight, HRSA/OPA compliance management, internal and external auditing, and registration management.

Requirements

Licensed Pharmacist - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR)
Bachelor's Degree: Pharmacy or Master's Degree: Healthcare or Master's Degree: Business Administration or Doctorate: Pharmacy
Pharmacy Administrative - 5 years
Working knowledge of State and Federal Pharmacy Regulations.
Familiarity with the Federal 340B Program.
Creation and administration of pharmacy budgets

Responsibilities

Establishes the scope of services for pharmacy operations across the organization.
Evaluates operations on an ongoing basis, utilizing principles of continuous improvement
Maintains the highest quality and an appropriate scope to meet local and regional patient care needs.
Acts as a key contributor in providing high quality, cost-effective pharmaceutical care across all Carle sites.
Develops a strategic plan for pharmacy operations across the system
Is aligned to meet the organization's strategic objectives.
Develops and maintains practice standards for all professional staff.
Supports individual professional growth.
Ensures staff maintains necessary competencies to perform required duties.
Collaborates with nursing leadership
Ensures engagement of nurses within the Pharmacy Division with Magnet and other professional nursing practice tenets.
Develops and oversees pharmacy purchasing strategy to maintain pharmacy supply chain across all Carle entities.
Provides oversight for pharmacy contracting.
Provides budgetary leadership and oversight for aggregated budgets for all pharmacy locations.
Ensures pharmacy service line accreditation readiness with medication management and pharmacy practice standards for DNV, ACHC, URAC, and other accrediting bodies as appropriate.
Coordinates and oversees pharmacy automation across all Carle locations.
Coordinates 340B operations system-wide, including split-billing software, contracting, contracted pharmacy oversight, HRSA/OPA compliance management, internal and external auditing, and registration management.