The Pharmacy Facility Program Manager is responsible for managing all aspects of a distinct program to include policy development, quality resources and specialty functions unique to the program to optimize cost effectiveness (budget) and patient outcomes.

Duties

Participates in collaborative interdisciplinary practice through active participation in hospital committees (including Pharmacy, Nutrition & Therapeutics, Patient Safety, Medication Safety, etc). Coordinates ongoing, proactive processes to evaluate and improve safe medication management strategies. Manages or assists with management of data collection, analysis, and review of medication safety related events, Medication Safety Joint Patient Safety Reporting concerns and practices, including reports of Adverse Drug Events and medication errors. Participates in root-cause analysis of significant medication errors. Examines the systems failures and human factors contributing to medication errors. Identifies the extent of the health system's adherence to published best practices and guidelines relevant to medication-use safety. Identifies opportunities for proactive change in the medication-use system suggested by published events or recommendations focused on medication-use safety. Ensure health-system adoption of modifications to the medication-use system on the basis of comparison with best practices, guidelines, published events, and recommendations. Participates in medical center and pharmacy service quality improvement initiatives Ensures compliance with accreditation standards and with federal, state, and local regulations related to medication use. Ensures compliance with Risk evaluation and mitigation strategy medication policies and audits. Serves as a resource to pharmacy management and performance improvement departments on matters of medication safety Serves as a liaison representing the Pharmacy Service in safe medication practice issues. Assists the Chief of Pharmacy office in developing medication safety goals and objectives. Assists Chief of Pharmacy office and pharmacy service sections supervisors in development, approval, and implementation of policies and procedures that support medication safety. Coordinates interdepartmental and intradepartmental medication safety activities. Ensures that all patient-specific and medication-specific information needed to support effective medication-related patient care decisions is readily available in a useful form to physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other pertinent health care providers. Ensures that parenteral solutions, medication concentrations, doses, and administration items are standardized whenever possible. Minimizes the potential for errors associated with medication products due to labeling, packaging, or medication names that look or sound alike. Ensures that policies and procedures are established to maintain safe and secure medication storage throughout the Durham VA Healthcare system sites Ensures that processes for prescribing and monitoring medication therapy minimize the potential for medication errors. Ensures that methods for the communication and transcription of medication orders minimize the risk of errors. Ensures that processes for double-check and other verifications are in place to ensure the safety of medications requiring special preparation (e.g. medications requiring extemporaneous compounding, anti-neoplastics agents, and new medication with unique preparation requirements). Ensures that processes for medications delivery to patient care areas in a safe and secure manner and are available for administration within a timeframe that meets essential patient needs. Regularly reviews sources of new/revised laws and regulations, determines applicability to the system and each entity, develops policies to ensure compliance, and educates stakeholders on the levels of changes. Participates in the medication safety training and in-servicing of pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, pharmacy residents, pharmacy students, and other medical center personnel as required. Is skilled at using both written and verbal communication techniques in teaching others. May serve as a preceptor for pharmacy students and/or pharmacy residents. Has a good working knowledge of information resources such as Joint Commission standards, National Patient Safety Goals, ASHP recommendations, etc as related to medication safety. Provides timely and accurate responses to medication safety inquiries from all customers. Participation in research activities must be in accordance with FDA guidelines and regulations and VHA policy Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 8:00a-4:30p Telework: Not available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Requirements

Qualifications

Basic Requirements: United States Citizenship: Must be Citizen of the United States. English Language Proficiency: Pharmacists must be proficient in spoken and written English as required by 38 U.S.C. 7402(d), and 7407(d). Education: Graduate of an Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) accredited College or School of Pharmacy with a baccalaureate degree in pharmacy (BS Pharmacy) and/or a Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree. Licensure: Full, current, and unrestricted license to practice pharmacy in a State, Territory, Commonwealth of the United States (i.e., Puerto Rico), or the District of Columbia. Experience. In addition to the basic requirements, you must have 1 year of experience equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-12). AND Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs): In addition to the experience listed above, candidates must demonstrate the following Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs) listed below. Ability to communicate orally and in writing to persuade and influence clinical and management decisions. Expert understanding of regulatory and quality standards for their program area. Ability to solve problems, coordinate and organize responsibilities to maximize outcomes in their program area or area of clinical expertise. Advanced skill in monitoring and assessing the outcome of drug therapies, including physical assessment and interpretation of laboratory and other diagnostic parameters. Assignment. A Facility Program Manager in this assignment manages all aspects of a distinct program to include policy development, quality resources and specialty functions unique to the program to optimize cost effectiveness (budget) and patient outcomes. Coordinates a single program area of a complex pharmacy operation, or multiple program areas within a facility to develop, organize, manage, and control complex pharmacy programs. Develops, organizes, coordinates and manages single or multiple program areas within the medical facility; this may include a single program area at multiple facilities. The Program Manager title is reserved for those individuals who have one or more of the following: supervisory responsibilities for various sections within Pharmacy Service; a complex program requiring coordination of multiple locations such as medical center care facilities, Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs), rural health, telemedicine, etc; specialized areas of a complex nature such as nuclear pharmacy, quality assurance, pharmacy informatics, clinical applications coordinator, Home Based Primary Care, pharmacoeconomist or liaison pharmacist duties requiring the coordination of processes with other medical facilities or VISNs. References: VA Handbook 5005/55 Part II, APPENDIX G15. LICENSED PHARMACIST QUALIFICATION STANDARD GS-660 Physical Requirements: See VA Handbook 5019.

Education

IMPORTANT: A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.

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/.

Contacts

• Address Durham VA Medical Center 508 Fulton Street Durham, NC 27705 US
• Name: Therese Lowe
• Phone: 8038695875
• Email: [email protected]