Job Details
Manage retail pharmacy clerk, technicians and pharmacy operations to provide pharmacy services and medications to patients.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Manage and direct technician and clerk daily workflow to efficiently provide pharmacy services and medications including scheduling staff to efficiently meet operational needs. .
- Responsible for retail clerk and technician staff mentorship, improvement plans, and performance evaluations including establishing clerk and technician staff training and competency programs.
- Assist with creation and attainment of department goals that support organizational goals and strategic plan.
- Create retail technician staff assignments, duties, and performance expectations.
- Identify opportunities, priorities, exercises initiative and independent judgment to provide pharmaceutical services.
- Supervise compounding and preparation of sterile and non-sterile hazardous and non-hazardous products. including preparation, packaging, labeling, handling and storage to maintain product sterility and stability.
- Responsible for establishing and oversight of medication preparation, verification and dispensing.
- Implement policies and procedures to meet federal and state regulations and accreditation standards.
- Standardize and monitor retail pharmacy processes and procedures.
- Establish procedures to maintain inventory, manage drug shortages, pharmaceutical waste, and process expired, recall and quarantined medications.
- Assists in developing control and non-control policies and procedures to maintains medications security.
- Create and monitor procedures to maintain and stock equipment such as automated dispensing machines, robots, scales, and IV compounding hoods.
- Assess medication errors to improve processes.
- Decreases expenses/waste and increase revenue through activities such as inventory control, provider education, MUE, formulary management, and quality improvement efforts.
- Develop, implement and monitor quality improvement programs (CQI).
- Identify and promptly submit tickets for equipment and system issues and communicate issue(s) to leadership/staff.
- Actively participate and lead pharmacy and hospital committees. Completes pharmacy and organizational projects.
- Prepare lectures, demonstrations, and presentations for the community and hospital staff.
- Responsible for maintaining control and non-control substance medication records, and inventories according to federal and state regulations.
- Perform clinical pharmacist, technician and clerk functions.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- Bachelor of Science degree and/or Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) from an accredited school of Pharmacy
- PharmD preferred; 1-year residency (PGY1) preferred
- Current and active, unrestricted Pharmacist license; Arizona pharmacist license preferred
- Two (2) years of pharmacist experience; Minimum two (2) years in hospital or retail pharmacy practice
- BLS certification within 90 days of hire
- Licensed to administer immunizations, vaccines, and emergency medications, preferred
Indian Preference and Equal Employment Opportunity
SCAHC gives preference in hiring to San Carlos Apache Tribal members and other Native Americans in accordance with the San Carlos Apache Tribe's Tribal Preference Policy, as set forth in Section 402 of the Tribe's Human Resources Department Policies and Procedures Manual. Otherwise SCAHC does not discriminate in any way to deprive any person of employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect him/her because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, citizenship, veteran status, military or uniformed services, in accordance with all applicable governmental laws and regulations. In addition, SCAHC complies with all applicable federal, and Tribal laws governing nondiscrimination in employment.