Director of Pharmacy

CompleteRx is seeking a Director of Pharmacy to provide exceptional patient care at South Shore Hospital; approximately 135-staffed bed acute care hospital in South Chicago IL.

The Director of Pharmacy provides leadership and strategic direction at our partnered hospital while having the support and expertise of CompleteRxs operations team as a resource. Your positive leadership and innovation will enable the hospital to provide the best services to the local communities.

Compensation:

• Salary: $165000 - $185000 (Commensurate with experience.)
• Eligible Annual Company Bonus: $3000

Pharmacy Operating Hours:

• Monday Friday 7am 10pm
• Sat/Sun 7am 8pm

Hospital Overview:

Since 1912 South Shore Hospital is a not-for-profit acute care hospital serving Chicagos South Shore community. The hospital offers a broad range of inpatient outpatient emergency diagnostic surgical and community-based health services.

Why Join CompleteRx

At CompleteRx we believe healthcare should be about serving others. Thats why our mission is to deliver better care and better service through innovation. The goal of our exceptional teams is to perform like champions. This means we are committed to being the best at delivering quality care to the patients we serve. Each team members dedication is essential to meeting and exceeding the needs of our patients and families.

What You Will Do

Evaluates operations on an ongoing basis to ensure safe appropriate cost-effective care delivery

• Develops enforces and maintains policies and procedures that promote cost-effective appropriate and safe drug use.
• Evaluates operations on an ongoing basis using principles of continuous process improvement.
• Develops implements checks and retools action plans to address variances and improve efficiency.
• Supervises drug storage and preparation areas throughout the hospital.
• Ensures maintenance of an adequate drug supply. Ensures the integrity of the drug supply. Establishes specifications for the procurement of drugs chemicals and biologicals.
• Assures adequate control and documentation of controlled substances.

Supervises trains mentors and evaluates staff.

• Supervises pharmacy personnel.
• Develops job descriptions performance standards and performance goals.
• Prepares work schedules and monitors workload statistics. Maintains an appropriate staffing level.
• Provides for the educational needs of the pharmacy staff.
• Acts as a positive role model mentor and preceptor.

Prepares annual budget controls and reduces costs forecasts operational needs and reviews expenditures to ensure budget limits are not exceeded.

• Manages and oversees pharmacy purchasing.
• Prepares a pharmacy budget annually with the support of the CompleteRx operations team.
• Reviews monthly financial statistics and plans expenditures within budget guidelines.
• Monitors and justifies all expenses exceeding budgeted targets.
• Administers reports documents payroll records employee surveys and other required data.
• Ensures compliance with hospital policies and procedures that apply to pharmacy services.

Establishes the scope of services and develops annual implementation plans which contribute to the organizational strategic objectives.

• Develop implement and maintain a program that improves the quality of pharmacy services and supports the quality improvement plan of the organization.
• Establish productive collaborative relationships with physicians nursing administration and other hospital staff.

What You Will Need

• Bachelor of Science or PharmD degree required.
• Current license in good standing to practice pharmacy in the State of Illinois.
• Minimum 3 years of management experience.
• Minimum 3 years of hospital pharmacy experience is required.

Compensation & Benefits:

As an employee of CompleteRx your commitment to learning will be encouraged and supported through ongoing training and professional development. We nurture a collaborative high-performance culture and offer a challenging career along with a comprehensive benefits package.

• Medical dental and vision
• Flexible Spending Account or Health Savings Account
• Vacation and sick time and 1 personal day
• Six company paid holidays
• Continuing education: Eligible employees have access to a full complement of continuing-education courses as well as a wide variety of career development opportunities.
• 401(k) plans: CompleteRx offers a 401(k) plan with a company match.
• License Reimbursement
• Short and Long-Term Disability

Company Description:

Founded in 1998 as a service-driven organization with a strong sense of community CompleteRx embarked on a strategy to become the employer of choice in hospital pharmacy management and consulting. Since our founding we believe our success has been driven by our employees who are our most valuable resources. We believe the very best outcomes are accomplished when all employees share a sense of mutual ownership for successful results and where each employee accepts personal accountability for their individual contributions. These beliefs are the core of our Team Covenant which guides all of our actions to the patients we care for hospitals we support and fellow employees we work alongside.

CompleteRx is an Equal Opportunity Employer by choice.