Description
Supervisor Pharmacy
**Lebanon, NH, USA**
**New**
Allied Health
Post Date Apr 18, 2022
Requisition # 220001GD
**Purpose:**
Supervises staff and work load in assigned, specialized shop/section of the department to ensure a safe and efficient operation.
**Key Responsibilities:**
1. Supervises day-to-day activities of Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians.
2. Helps to hire, train and evaluate Pharmacy Department staff.
3. Schedules staff and ensures appropriate staff coverage.
4. Assists in the development and administration of departmental policies and procedures.
5. May prepare and dispense medication orders per physician request by interpreting and evaluating medication orders and transcribe to computerized patient medication profiles. Maintain medication profiles.
6. Ensures safe, appropriate, cost effective medication therapies for patients. Monitors medication therapy by assessment of:
7. Therapeutic appropriateness of the regimen (e.g. indication for use, drug selection, dosage).
8. Therapeutic duplication of the regimen.
9. Appropriateness of the route and method of administration.
10. Patient compliance with the regimen.
11. Medication/medication, medication/food, medication/laboratory test, and medication/disease interactions.
12. Clinical and laboratory data to evaluate the efficacy of therapy and to anticipate toxicity and adverse effects.
13. Physical signs and clinical symptoms relevant to therapy.
14. Reads, extracts, and interprets information in patient charts. Detects and reports suspected adverse drug reactions.
15. Sustains the formulary by minimizing non-formulary procurements, utilizing therapeutic substitution protocols, P&T committee approved drug use criteria; and promoting rational drug therapy selection.
16. Provides clinical consultation and clarification to practitioners. Suggests appropriate, cost-effective therapeutic alternatives to medical staff.
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18. Provides accurate, adequate, and timely drug information to the professional staff.
19. Assists in discharge planning. Counsels patient/families concerning proper drug administration, potential drug side effects and precautions, and discharge medication orders. Helps locate medication supplies not generally available.
20. Documents all clinical activities and interventions.
10. Participates in quality improvement and medicaiton use review activities of the department
11. Resolves patient complaints and works with staff to ensure excellent customer service.
12. Performs other duties as required or assigned.
**Minimum Qualifications:**
+ Bachelors degree in Pharmacy 3 years' experience as a Pharmacist.
+ Graduate of an ACPE accredited school of Pharmacy with 3 years of health care system experience (of which 1 must be pharmacy supervisory experience), or the equivalent required.
+ Demonstrated ability to work independently and possess the ability to set priorities and make critical decision.
+ Effective problem solving, and change management abilities desired.
+ Effective oral and written communication skills, as well as demonstrated interpersonal and team skills essential.
**Required Licensure/Certification Skills:**
+ Current unrestricted NH Pharmacist licensure.
+ BLS within 30 days of hire in the Retail or Specialty Pharmacy. For Specialty Pharmacy, if employee is designated as a full-time remote employee working outside of the states of NH/VT and does not maintain immunization endorsement, BLS is not required.
Board Certification in Specialty Pharmacy (CSP) within 3 years of hire in the Specialty Pharmacy
