PRN Pharmacist - San Antonio (19226)

Description

Job Summary:

The purpose of the Staff Pharmacist position is to support all daily pharmacy operations and ensure compliance with all applicable pharmacy laws, rules, regulations, policies, best practices, and standard operating procedures. The position will require supervision of technicians, business, and clerical staff along with performance of staff pharmacist duties.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• Graduate of an ACPE accredited School of Pharmacy with a BS Pharm or PharmD. degree.
• Licensed and registered pharmacist in Texas
• ACPE-accredited IV certification
• Pharmacy supervisory or management experience preferred.
• Long-term Care pharmacy experience preferred.
• Computer literacy is required.
• Must be able to handle potentially stressful situations and multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Ability to effectively communicate, direct, and at times, delegate tasks.
• Ability to read, write, and speak the English language is required.
• Must possess good organizational, problem solving and computer skills. Must possess good written and verbal communication skills for interfacing with all levels of staff, physicians, patients and other contacts.
  
  

Essential Functions:

The Staff Pharmacist is, at a minimum, responsible for the following functions, either directly or through delegation to qualified staff:

• Performance of staff pharmacist duties
• Ability to function as a Team Leader and Role Model of Cantex high ethical standards and code of conduct
• Ensures delivery of quality pharmacy services to all patients and facilities.
• Helps identify and resolve operational problems that impact productivity and pharmacy effectiveness.
• Assists in defining and implementing strategic plans for continued pharmacy growth and business evolution.
• Anticipates and interprets customer needs, identifies quality and service-oriented customer solutions, and shares key findings with staff
• Answers incoming communications in a timely manner and integrates other excellent customer service activities.
• Works with other pharmacy staff to anticipate and interpret customer needs and business challenges
• Ensure a working environment that promotes respect and dignity among patient and staff populations.
• Builds confidence and respect of others through a positive and energizing style
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with all pharmacy staff, superiors, other healthcare providers and the public.
• May assist with the recruitment, selection, verification, and training of competent and appropriately licensed, registered, and/or certified department staff.
• Helps supervise professional employees and/or supervisors, technical staff, clerical staff, and business support staff.
• Proactively assists with identifying talent internally and externally and actively cross-trains staff.
• Assists with employee evaluations on an annual basis or as otherwise required and provides counseling or disciplinary action when appropriate.
• Actively participates in pharmacy meetings to review departmental issues, expense control, labor control, and any other pertinent issues as appropriate or necessary.
• Makes periodic rounds of all areas/departments to ensure, via first-hand observation, that the environment is being maintained in a safe and sanitary fashion, that systems are in place, that physical assets of the Pharmacy are maintained in good condition, and that employees are appropriately attired and receiving appropriate supervision.
• Recognizes development needs and capability gaps in pharmacy and helps identify specific projects/assignments to address needs.
• Ensures that prescriptions are dispensed in accordance with all Federal and State laws and regulations, standard operating procedures and best practices, and internal policies and procedures.
• Supervises all pharmacy areas and departments, including receiving, filling, packaging, dispensing, delivery, inventory, record-keeping, loss prevention controls and security.
• Helps maintain appropriate inventories of pharmaceutical products and supplies, forms, and various office supplies
• Demonstrates experience and skill in sterile and non-sterile compounding procedures.
• Provides technical guidance to pharmacy staff in all areas of product preparation, clinical information management, and counseling activities.
• Able to use reference tools to evaluate patient care and answer questions posed by customers.
• Has accountability for managing pharmacys financial resources.
• Compiles data and provides cumulative reports on a routine or periodic basis as required by Pharmacy Manager.
• Assists the business office to ensure that adequate and timely financial records and cost reports are submitted to appropriate personnel, departments, or governmental agencies.
• Performs trouble shooting functions for third party discrepancies and other prescription filling issues
• Ability to keep records, prepare reports, estimate costs, and perform related clerical and administrative tasks involved in the operation of a pharmacy.
• Helps develop and maintain departmental computer systems and other emerging technologies.
• Sound working knowledge of all computer hardware and software in use, particularly the pharmacy operating system (POS), digital imaging software, automated dispensing systems, clinical references, other adopted medication management information systems, and Microsoft applications.
• After-hours availability and on-call duties as assigned.
• Maintains current knowledge of applicable rules, regulations, policies, laws, and guidelines that impact pharmacy operations and personnel.
• Responsible for assuring patient/resident safety.
• Performs other duties as directed by Pharmacy Manager.
  
  

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are at the heart of Cantex. We are committed to a culture that respects our differences and values the contributions of all people.

We are an Equal opportunity employer; We offer an excellent benefit plan to include 401K with match, CEU reimbursement, vacation, sick, holidays, medical, dental, and supplemental insurance Plans as well as a Highly competitive compensation package.