The Chief of Pharmacy is a clinical and administrative position that provides leadership and administrative control over the pharmacy programs and services provided under the umbrella of the VA Maryland Health Care System. The primary responsibility is for the planning, development, implementation, monitoring and improvement of the scope of pharmacy services.
Major Duties: Administration: Develops and implements both long and short-range policies and plans including budget and fiscal management; supply, service and equipment procurement; personnel and workforce utilization; contract negotiation; construction and renovation; and space utilization. Manages payroll for assigned time and leave accounts. Personnel Management: The Chief of Pharmacy has full supervisory authority over staff who provide clinical and administrative support to Pharmacy Service. Oversees the daily operation of the unit, ensures that agency policies and priorities are being followed. Supervisory work includes responsibility for planning and scheduling work; assigning work to employees; accepting, amending, or rejecting completed work; assuring that production and accuracy requirements are met; developing performance standards; evaluating work performance, recommending performance standards and ratings; and effecting disciplinary measures. Provides advice, counsel, and instruction to employees on both work and administrative matters. Manages minor complaints from employees and collaborates with Labor Relations to resolve group grievances and more serious complaints. Carries out Equal Employment Opportunity policies and program activities. Distributive Services: Manage the provision of outpatient and inpatient pharmaceutical services and approved products. This includes ordering, storing, disposal, distributing, supporting, administering, dispensing, and maintaining proper records for all pharmaceuticals, including but not limited to emergency drug caches, controlled substances, parenteral therapy, and investigational drugs. Establish and implement an ongoing quality assurance program that monitors performance of the Automated Pharmacy System, including a contingency plan in the event of a system, power, or process failure. Clinical Pharmacy Services: Has overall responsibility for Pharmacy Clinical Programs including patient education, medication therapy management, drug information and consultative services, patient assessment, drug administration, and prescriptive authority for those staff with a Scope of Practice functioning as mid-level providers. Ensure the Clinical Pharmacy Practitioners (CPP) scope of practice identifies the individual's general areas of responsibility to be performed, routine and non-routine professional duties, and prescriptive authority. Regulatory Compliance: Responsible for Pharmacy Service compliance with relevant standards of VA policy, the Joint Commission (JC); Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); Food and Drug Administration (FDA); the practice standards, guidelines, and technical bulletins of the American Society of Health System Pharmacists (ASHP); and the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) Chapter <797> (entitled "Pharmaceutical Compounding - Sterile Preparations) and Chapter <800>; the requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) as they pertain to patient privacy; and all applicable Federal and state laws (where adopted) and regulations concerning the dispensing of medications to hospitalized patients. Formulary Management and Medication Safety: Ensure the quality and access to educational drug information to include electronic drug literature databases. Responsible for formulary management processes. Drug Safety: Adverse drug event reporting program is in place and reviewed at the VAMHCS P&T Committee. Ensure appropriate Temperature Monitoring policy and procedure in the pharmacy are enforced for 24/7 monitoring of medications and provide the expert disposition of the medications store not under the management and control of pharmacy. Ensure safety and security of medication compounding areas. Investigational Drug Management: Responsible for the receipt, storage, security, labeling, dispensing, and disposition of all investigational drugs and supplies used in clinical investigations, and for ensuring that there is adequate pharmacy staffing and resources to safely conduct investigational drug studies in compliance with all rules and regulations. Emergency Pharmacy Services: Responsible for All Hazards Emergency Cache (AHEC). Ensure all inspections and inventories are completed and documented in accordance with criteria established by PBM. Training and Education: Ensure affiliation agreements are current with local schools of pharmacy and that VA pharmacy residency sites are accredited by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP). Appoint a Residency Program Director who meets ASHP Standards for each accredited residency. Work Schedule: 8am-4:30pm, Monday-Friday; see additional information section. Compressed/Flexible: Not Available Telework: Available; Ad-hoc Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Functional Statement #: 260402F Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
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