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Responsibilities and Essential Job Functions

• Model and hold team accountable to demonstrating health system mission vision and values.
• Mentor and motivate staff with the goals of retention of the best and brightest and development of staffing growth plans and leadership succession plans.
• Recommends strategic approaches and planning based on deep healthcare knowledge and experience related to management of Health Professions departments.
• Demonstrates a sound working knowledge of capital and space design needs regulatory and accreditation standards and laws for Health Professions departments through existing or acquired first-hand experiences direct observation and study of workflows and daily operations.
• Demonstrates effective communication direct engagement and the ability to initiate and maintain formal and informal partnerships with key internal and external customers including patients physicians clinical and non-clinical staff healthcare executives and administrative or academic leaders regulators policymakers patient advocates investors vendors and business partners.
• Problem-solves to maintain effective and efficient operations and highest possible quality of patient care and clinical and/or technical support through partnerships and collaboration with strategic planning finance information systems contracting billing compliance support services and all others.
• Is a key participant to ensure financial stewardship and sustainability of departments with involvement in budget planning and monitoring oversight of billing procedures and collections monitoring of overhead and equipment maintenance development and execution of cost containment/reduction strategies and other components of the revenue stream and expense management of the departments.
• Develop business tools to analyze and provide continuous improvement of workflows.
• Provides direct oversight hands-on management and coordinates additional resources needed to respond to circumstances requiring crisis intervention to maintain or restore operations in clinical professions departments.
• Effectively partners with physician leaders in the departments associated with Pharmacy and Health Professions.
• Develops maintains communicates and executes a vision and plan for continual improvement and provision of exceptional quality pharmacy service including; clinical patient care medication safety pharmacoeconomic operational and personnel dimensions.
• Leads the Pharmacy Departments to achievement of excellent pharmaceutical care by providing vision for the development of exceptional quality pharmacy services assuring accountability and facilitating effective communication relative to these initiatives.
• Participates in hospital committees and interdisciplinary efforts to enhance medication use and control medication costs by providing vision for quality and service initiatives to improve patient care.
• Upholds and promotes the patient-first culture of The University of Kansas Health System.
• As an executive of The University of Kansas Health System represents and participates in problem-solving strategy and performance improvement initiatives outside of primary areas of responsibility. Consistently supports and prioritizes health system goals and strategies even when not in primary areas of responsibility.
• Must be able to perform the professional clinical and or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.
• These statements are intended to describe the essential functions of the job and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities. Skills and duties may vary dependent upon your department or unit. Other duties may be assigned as required.

Required Education and Experience

• Masters Degree or higher in Business Pharmacy Healthcare Administration Public Health or Healthcare occupation
• 6 or more years of continuous experience in healthcare leadership roles of progressively higher-level responsibility.

Preferred Education and Experience

• Most recent 3 years in an executive position or a position directly reporting to an executive in an academic and/or large health system setting.

Required Licensure and Certification

• Licensed Pharmacist - State Board of Pharmacy

Required Language Skills

• English - Must be able to read write and speak English.

Knowledge Requirements

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

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Important information for you to know as you apply:

• The health system is an equal employment opportunity employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race color religion sex (including pregnancy gender identity and sexual orientation) national origin ancestry age disability veteran status genetic information or any other legally-protected status. See also Diversity Equity & Inclusion.

• The health system provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need to request reasonable accommodations for your disability as you navigate the recruitment process please let our recruiters know by requesting an Accommodation Request form using this link .

• Employment with the health system is contingent upon among other things agreeing to the and signing the agreement to the DRP.

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