ProMedica Bay Park Hospital caters to communities east of the Maumee River. Our campus includes a state-of-the-art community hospital with 91 private beds and a professional office building dedicated to doctors' offices and outpatient rehabilitation, as well as a treatment and diagnostic center. The hospital itself was designed with patient comfort and healing in mind, with wider hallways, single-patient rooms and an abundance of natural light.

POSITION SUMMARY

The director of pharmacy is responsible for overseeing all medication procurement, storage, and preparation in the health system or organization. The director of pharmacy ensures that the pharmacy provides optimal services; facilitates safe medication use; meets all legal, accreditation, and certification requirements; and complies with all applicable policies, procedures, codes, and standards of the organization.

 

ACCOUNTABILITIES 

1. Plans and implements services, programs, and processes designed to ensure safe and effective drug therapy outcomes while meeting the needs of the business unit’s external and internal customers based on system and business unit goals and objectives, consistent with system Mission and Values. 

2. Plan and budget for all department operational costs, provide expense projections for approval, understand and report ledger and productivity variances.

3. Actively participates as a member of the System Pharmacy Services leadership team. 

4. Assures that an ongoing process for monitoring and evaluating the quality and effectiveness of the services is in place and that identified opportunities for improvement are implemented using system recognized process improvement tools.  Activities to enhance the quality of services will be reported through appropriate channels as required. 

5. Ensures that the appropriate level of professional and technical staff are maintained to provide the services, and that the staff are effectively engaged in an environment that fosters staff satisfaction.  Ensures that all pharmacy professional and technical staff are adequately trained and competent to perform their clinical and patient care responsibilities.  This includes competencies to safely use hospital equipment and technology, comply with hospital and departmental policies and procedures.  Identifies staffing and resource needs to administration. 

6. Ensures that the pharmacy services provided meet the standards and regulations of a variety of regulatory and accrediting bodies, including among them, State Board of Pharmacy, DEA, The Joint Commission, Ohio Department of Health, Michigan Department of Public Health, Hospital Facilities Accreditation Program (HFAP), and others, as they apply.  Ensures that all licenses for the service locations and staff are current and in good standing with the agencies.  Maintains ability to serve as responsible pharmacist or a resource for the responsible pharmacist for state and federal licensing. 

7. Serves as an active member of the business unit’s leadership team in support of business unit goals, objectives, and other initiatives.  Keeps business unit leadership (matrix) informed on key performance measures and matters of importance.  

8. Demonstrate empathy, respect, integrity, and dignity in interactions with patients and coworkers. 

9. Strives for continuous improvement through the development and implementation of creative solutions. 

10. Collaborate with others to improve performance and enhance service. 

11. Strives for provision of healthcare providing high quality outcomes. 

12. Ensure health care is delivered using evidence based medicine. 

13. Function effectively within multi-disciplinary teams to foster open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient/ customer care. 

14. Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise in the provision of high quality care. 

15. Displays a high commitment to patient safety. 

16. Uses information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making. 

17. Complies with work schedule and attendance policies.

18. Able to work independently and handle stress appropriately. 

19. Effectively makes critical decisions to achieve desired outcomes.

20. Able to communicate effectively (orally and in writing).

21. Coaches and facilitates the growth and development of employees within the department as well as the organization.

22. Leads the department in providing a vision for its direction and embraces the change process to achieve the vision.

23. Takes fiscal responsibility for department budgets. 

24. Must be able to move about and between workstations.

25. Must be able to understand directions, communicate and respond to inquiries: requires effective interpersonal skills.

26. Is punctual and dependable; reports to work as scheduled; fulfills on-call obligations when necessary; absenteeism and tardiness are within policy guidelines

27. Must be able to input and retrieve information from computer.

28. Provides courteous, cooperative, and timely service to patients, visitors, and staff members; demonstrates good oral and written communication.