Admixture Pharmacy Supervisor
Supervises promotes Clinic Infusion Services for patients requiring infusion therapies provides process compliance expertise in sterile product preparation, assures that pharmacists technicians provide appropriate, cost-effective pharmaceutical care to patients of Office Infusion Clinics.
Essential Functions:
- Supervises the day-to-day operations of Office Infusion Clinic pharmacy staff to ensure timely completion of workload completion of tasks.
- Manages the budget does benchmark analysis of Infusion Services which assures use of most technologically advanced cost efficient processes services; incorporates defined best practices into the service.
- Assists in providing recommendations implementation which assures regulatory compliance to sterile product preparation.
- Maintains policies procedures relating to Infusion pharmacy operations professional practice standards.
- Provides qualitative quantitative results related to operational areas contributes to organizational cost effectiveness performance.
- Helps manage the planning, operation, problem-solving guidelines to meet the required service levels, standards, goals of the department.
- Proactively provides accurate resolution to inquiries, concerns, potential complaints w/ a focus on quality, safety, member retention; continuously strives to improve provider satisfaction.
- Assists in development of performance standards on-going reporting mechanisms to evaluate staff operational performance.
- Assists in establishment implementation of departmental performance reports.
- Demonstrates adherence to universal precautions aseptic technique.
- Maintains increases standards of performance education.
- Assures customer/personnel safety by maintaining a safe therapeutic environment by adhering to company safety programs.
- Takes initiative to increase job knowledge through additional training, cross training skills development, continuing education.
- Manages staffing needs of the infusion pharmacy. Position will require routine staffing duties by the supervisor.
- Obtains, interprets, evaluates all physician medication orders for appropriateness, cost effectiveness, accuracy, safety, completeness.
- Accurately compounds checks compounded sterile products.
- Communicates clinical technical information monitoring to other members of the health care team.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Collaborates w/ facility personnel on infusion pharmacy services.
- Oversees pharmacists pharmacy technicians in the clinical activities of the infusion/oncology department.
Secondary Functions:
Qualifications:
Schedule Details:
- This position has a rotating schedule to include working at nights, weekends and holidays.
- This is a flex position with expectation to staff at all infusion pharmacies within the region when necessary.
Basic Qualifications:
- 2 years of experience mixing distributing intravenous therapy preferably in managed care settings required.
- BS or Pharmacy D. Degree from an accredited College of Pharmacy required.
- Pharmacist licensure in appropriate jurisdiction(s) required.
- Knowledge of technological business developments trends in Infusion Therapy Hospital relations, particularly as related to managed care environments, required.
- Familiarity w/ IV therapy procedures technologies; sterile technique infection control procedures software applications related to infusion customer satisfaction tracking required.
- Ability to set priorities for self staff in a rapidly growing, highly technical service.
- Ability to design manage processes systems to assure program efficiencies cost-effectiveness in a competitive business environment
- Knowledge of infusion pharmacy business practices qualitative quantitative practice measures.
- Demonstrated ability to build effective teams to delegate motivate appropriately to ensure success of the program.
- Demonstrated customer focus customer satisfaction success in previous work environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Management or supervisory experience demonstrated ability to manage budgetary resources in a cost effective manner preferred.
- Previous supervisory or experience in a lead position preferred.
- Oncology /or Home Infusion pharmacy experience preferred.
- Virginia, District of Columbia and Maryland Pharmacist licensure necessary (or obtain licensure in a given period of time after employment if not currently license in 3 juridictions)
- Salaried position with administrative and staffing duties.