Manager, Pharmacy Care Delivery, Home Infusion Pharmacy
Primary Location Portland, Oregon
Worker Location Flexible
Job Number 1342129 Date posted 03/13/2025
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Description:
In addition to the responsibilities listed below, this position is also responsible for: guiding teams to evaluate facility infusion pharmacy spatial and design requirements for provision of optimum service based on established priorities; leading planning, management team leadership and operational oversight of Pharmacy infusion services including product preparation, Oncology, Home infusion, automated Dispensing Machines (ADM), Clinic Administered Medications (CAMS), USP 797/800 and hazardous drug handling requirements and other compliance and regulatory issues; managing and coordinating complex patient-use materials and devices at site of use (e.g., TPN compound machine) to ensure delivery to patient and facilitate appropriate use across multiple areas; overseeing collaboration with nursing entities (e.g., home health and hospice) to ensure adherence to guidelines in administration of patient drug therapy while in home; researching, defining, drafting, presenting, and establishing buy-in across organizations for expected and new guidelines in alignment with safety standards and committees (e.g., nursing, TPMG) for home use; synthesizing multiple objectives/strategic results and leading staff meetings, clinical practice meetings, and staff huddles to ensure alignment across teams; reviewing revisions and updates to compounding master formulas, manage formulary dispensing records and templates in Pharmacy dispensing programs; and leading multiple teams, approving, and reviewing wide-spanning One link orders, recharges, and inventory to ensure drug availability and mitigate supply shortages across multiple service areas.
Job Summary:
In addition to the responsibilities listed below, this position is also responsible for: guiding teams to evaluate facility infusion pharmacy spatial and design requirements for provision of optimum service based on established priorities; leading planning, management team leadership and operational oversight of Pharmacy infusion services including product preparation, Oncology, Home infusion, automated Dispensing Machines (ADM), Clinic Administered Medications (CAMS), USP 797/800 and hazardous drug handling requirements and other compliance and regulatory issues; managing and coordinating complex patient-use materials and devices at site of use (e.g., TPN compound machine) to ensure delivery to patient and facilitate appropriate use across multiple areas; overseeing collaboration with nursing entities (e.g., home health and hospice) to ensure adherence to guidelines in administration of patient drug therapy while in home; researching, defining, drafting, presenting, and establishing buy-in across organizations for expected and new guidelines in alignment with safety standards and committees (e.g., nursing, TPMG) for home use; synthesizing multiple objectives/strategic results and leading staff meetings, clinical practice meetings, and staff huddles to ensure alignment across teams; reviewing revisions and updates to compounding master formulas, manage formulary dispensing records and templates in Pharmacy dispensing programs; and leading multiple teams, approving, and reviewing wide-spanning One link orders, recharges, and inventory to ensure drug availability and mitigate supply shortages across multiple service areas.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Provides developmental opportunities for others; builds collaborative, cross-functional relationships. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; works closely with employees to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to drive performance improvement. Pursues professional growth; develops and provides training and development to talent for growth opportunities; supports execution of performance management guidelines and expectations. Leads, adapts, implements, and stays up to date with organizational change, challenges, feedback, best practices, processes, and industry trends. Fosters open dialogue amongst team members, engages, motivates, and promotes collaboration within and across teams. Delegates tasks and decisions as appropriate; provides appropriate support, guidance, and scope; encourages development and consideration of options in decision making.
- Manages designated work unit or team by translating business plans into tactical action items; oversees the completion of work assignments and identifies opportunities for improvement; ensures all policies and procedures are followed. Aligns team efforts; builds accountability for and measuring progress in achieving results; determines and ensures processes and methodologies are implemented; resolves escalated issues as appropriate; sets standards and measures progress. Fosters the development of work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; obtains and distributes resources. Removes obstacles that impact performance; identifies and addresses improvement opportunities; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly; influences teams to execute in alignment with operational objectives.
- Oversees drug education and training efforts by: leading team to provide complex pharmacy and provider education to positively impact patient compliance and provider prescribing practices.
- Provides pharmaceutical patient care and drug therapy by: managing productive relationships with care providers and members; leading teams workflow and execution of comprehensive pharmaceutical information e.g., drug therapy, adverse effects, compliance, appropriate use, and handling); supervising implementation of therapeutic regimens and/or programs applicable across patients in multiple services while integrating patient-specific disease and drug information, current practice standards, ethical issues, and quality-of-life issues, and pharmacoeconomic principles; leading development, implementation, and coordination of regional, hospital, hospital-based, or ambulatory drug initiatives, other formulary management activities, and/or KP-related drug trials; facilitating implementation process, evaluating, and reporting utilization, as appropriate, of targeted medications and medication classes to senior managers, monitoring impact of initiative and novel work to assure safe, rational and cost-effective prescribing; managing processes to understand clinicians or department-level decisions, support, and feedback, strategizing further support for the drug use process; and leading improvements to and coordination of complex pharmaceutical care and optimal utilization of resources to and from hospital, acute, and ambulatory patient-care settings.
- Leads team to monitor services in compliance with state and federal laws, all regulatory bodies, established quality standards and organizational service standards by: leading adherence to all regulatory rules and regulations (e.g., Drug Enforcement Administration [DEA], State Board of Pharmacy, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act [HIPAA]) and relevant internal regional and national policies; driving team and self to maintain knowledge with policies and procedures and performs in accordance with applicable regulatory requirements and accreditation standards as they relate to the assigned department; managing investigation of, responses to, and resolution of complex escalated member inquiries and concerns from teams with innovation and ingenuity; and leading team to collaborate with physicians, other medical professionals, and health plan personnel to assess, resolve, and assure complex quality and process outcome measures.
- Oversees multiple teams to carry out implementation and development of drug therapy by: overseeing efforts for proper drug use management across a team, other managers and/or multiple locations; evaluating and facilitating high-impact content about utilization of medicine to senior leaders; collaborating with senior health care providers to gather relevant sources on potential changes within the market and upcoming new drugs; collaborating across teams and senior leaders to provide input and oversee complex pharmacotherapeutic drug regimen guidelines and trainings; guiding teams to use strategies to ensure member, patients and/or healthcare providers understand appropriate use, application, and interactions of prescribed medication and provides drug information to relevant healthcare providers; driving application of strategies to ensure achievement of the member financial and therapeutic objectives; and evaluating service areas reports of member data to assess overall plan outcomes and carrying out actions plans to affect change.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Doctorate of Pharmacy or equivalent degree (e.g., Bachelors of Pharmacy from a School of Pharmacy) AND two (2) years of experience in pharmacy or directly related field AND Post-Graduate Year 1 (PGY1) residency or fellowship OR Doctorate of Pharmacy or equivalent degree (e.g., Bachelors of Pharmacy from a School of Pharmacy) AND Minimum four (4) years of experience in pharmacy or a directly related field.
- Minimum one (1) year of experience managing operational or project budgets.
- Minimum two (2) years of experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.
- Pharmacist License (Oregon) required at hire
- National Provider Identifier within 6 months of hire
Additional Requirements:
- Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs): Sterile Compounding Quality & Regulatory Adherence; Community Health; Stakeholder Management; Cost Optimization; Confidentiality; Service Focus; Direct Care - Medication Therapy
Two (2) years of experience in a leadership role of a large matrixed organization.
Primary Location: Oregon,Portland,Airport Way Pharmacy Refill Center
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
Shift: Variable
Workdays: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
Working Hours Start: 08:00 AM
Working Hours End: 04:00 PM
Job Schedule: Full-time
Job Type: Standard
Worker Location: Flexible
Employee Status: Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation: NUE-NW-01|NUE|Non Union Employee
Job Level: Manager with Direct Reports
Specialty: Pharmacy Care Delivery
Department: Airport Way Center - Home Infusion Phcy - 1008
Pay Range: $215000 - $248600 / year
Kaiser Permanente strives to offer a market competitive total rewards package and is committed to pay equity and transparency. The posted pay range is based on possible base salaries for the role and does not reflect the full value of our total rewards package. Actual base pay determined at offer will be based on labor market data and a candidate's years of relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills, and geographic location.
Travel: Yes, 5 % of the Time
Flexible: Work location is on-site at a KP location, with the flexibility to work from home.
Worker location must align with Kaiser Permanente's Authorized States policy.
At Kaiser Permanente, equity, inclusion and diversity are inextricably linked to our mission, and we aim to make it a part of everything we do. We know that having a diverse and inclusive workforce makes Kaiser Permanente a better place to receive health care, a more supportive partner in our communities we serve, and a more fulfilling place to work. Working at Kaiser Permanente means that you agree to and abide by our commitment to equity and our expectation that we all work together to create an inclusive work environment focused on a sense of belonging and wellbeing.
Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, parental status, ancestry, disability, gender identity, veteran status, genetic information, other distinguishing characteristics of diversity and inclusion, or any other protected status. Submit Interest
Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, parental status, ancestry, disability, gender identity, veteran status, genetic information, other distinguishing characteristics of diversity and inclusion, or any other protected status. Submit Interest