Hospital Pharmacy Director New Orleans

Soliant Health is seeking a Director of Pharmacy for our growing team in Louisiana. 

Overview:

• Develops and enforces policies and procedures that promote cost-effective, appropriate, and safe medication use.
• Develops and maintains a medical staff-approved formulary.
• Supervises medication storage and preparation areas throughout the facility.
• Provides for the educational needs of health care professionals, patients, and their families.
• Ensures maintenance of an adequate medication supply.
• Ensures the integrity of the medication supply.
• Establishes specifications for the procurement of medications, chemicals, and biologicals.
• Ensures strict control and accountability for medications dispensed to patients or distributed to floor stock.
• Assures adequate control and documentation of controlled substances.
• Ensures applicable continuing education records and licensure are maintained in department files.
• Supervises all pharmacy personnel and recruits, interviews, promotes, disciplines, and terminates pharmacy staff.
• Develops job descriptions and performance standards. Evaluates and counsels staff on their performance.
• Prepares work schedules and monitors workload statistics. Maintains an appropriate staffing level.
• Provides for the educational needs of the pharmacy staff.
• Prepares a pharmacy budget annually.
• Reviews monthly financial statistics and plans expenditures within budget guidelines.
• Monitors and justifies all expenses exceeding budgeted targets.
• Ensures preparation and submission of patient charges and financial reports to administration in accordance with policy.
• Administers reports, documents, payroll records, statistical surveys, and other required data.
• Ensures compliance with health system policies and procedures that apply to pharmacy services. Ensures compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws, rules, and regulations.

 
Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in pharmacy required PharmD preferred
• Must be a licensed Pharmacist and eligible for licensure
• 1+ years hospital experience with 2+ years in a management position required
• Ability to negotiate, influence, and resolve customer/employee problems or conflicts to meet the needs of external and internal customers
• Ability to develop, implement and lead all aspects of pharmacy operation
• Licensure in other states preferred
• In-patient hospital pharmacy experience is required
• Computer savvy to learn and perform successful operation of multiple pharmacy information systems.
• Ability to hear, write, and speak clearly in order to communicate with customers and health care professionals
• Excellent planning, organizing and leadership skills
• Strong customer orientation and negotiation skills
• Pressure to perform in emergency situations
• Overall decision making responsibility
• Ability to work on call or be in an on call rotation.

 
Housing reimbursement, tax-free meal stipends, auto allowance, travel allowance, medical benefits and PTO.
 
Contact:
Thomas Tatham
Senior Recruiter
[email protected]
561-712-5572