40 Hours per week
Day Shift
The Specialty Pharmacy Manager is responsible for assisting in the coordination, quality, and cost effectiveness of the operations provided in the specialty pharmacy. The Specialty Pharmacy Manager oversees day to day operations of the specialty pharmacy and works with facility administration, pharmacy director, clinical pharmacy specialty pharmacists, and patient care coordinator to develop and maintain the goals and standards of practice to assure optimal outcomes. Assists the Director of Pharmacy in budget planning and staffing development. Responsibilities will also include ongoing support and training of staff utilizing specialty and ambulatory software to support specialty services.
Educate pharmacy students, residents, pharmacists, technicians, and other providers regarding specialty pharmacy.
The Specialty Pharmacy Manager supports the development, implementation, and maintenance of programs that promote desirable patient outcomes through safe, appropriate, cost-effective medication therapies. Ensures compliance with pharmacy regulatory standards. This pharmacist may also work on other projects as assigned.
Responsible for supervising and performing all pharmacy operations in accordance with hospital policies and procedures, ethical and professional practices, hospital accrediting agency standards, State and Federal requirements and National Patient Safety Goals regarding medication management
Specialty Clinic integration and coordination
Partners with providers and specialty pharmacy clinical staff on integration of the pharmacy team to coordinate care with patients
Maintains onsite specialty pharmacy services, operational policies and procedures, clinical pharmacy workflows and practice expectations
Participates actively in multidisciplinary committees, teams, working groups, and/or task forces related to the care of patients as the pharmacy representative as assigned
Ensures all state and federal regulatory requirements and accreditation standards are met and appropriately documented
Works with Pharmacy Director, Pharmacy Clinical Manager and other BHDM leaders to implement, integrate, and maintain evidence-based and regulatory standards of clinical/operational pharmacy services
Partners with Pharmacy Director and Pharmacy Clinical Manager to implement and lead system specialty pharmacy strategy
Assists the Pharmacy Director and other BHDM leaders to explore and implement 340B opportunities
Provides direction, expertise, and leadership to specialty pharmacy teams to optimize services and efficiencies in collaboration with retail pharmacy
Partners with appropriate internal teams to improve clinical resource utilization and drug therapy management
Completes internal audits of specialty clinical documentation and is responsible for oversight of clinical decisions impacting patients, including regular review of workflow processes
Works cooperatively with internal medical group personnel and external practices to promote and maintain good interpersonal and interdepartmental communication
Maintains knowledge of, and expertise in, leading edge developments in Pharmacy systems and automation and related information systems and technologies by participation in ongoing independent study and education-related professional activities as deemed necessary for program maintenance
Acts as a positive role model during change, supporting teams through specialty pharmacy IT enhancements, new operational resources, and changes to day-to-day operations to optimize efficiencies
Works to prevent and resolve medication related issues, monitors clinic quality measures
Supports specialty pharmacy staff selection and professional growth and development
Serves in the role of specialty pharmacist in absence of specialty staff
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.
Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.
Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.
Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.
Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
