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All the benefits and perks you need for you and your family:

• Benefits from Day One for FT/PT positions
• Paid Days Off from Day One for FT/PT positions
• Student Loan Repayment Program for FT/PT positions
• Career Development
• Whole Person Wellbeing Resources
• Mental Health Resources and Support
• Debt-free Education (Certifications and Degrees without out-of-pocket tuition expense)

Our promise to you:

Joining AdventHealth is about being part of something bigger. It’s about belonging to a community that believes in the wholeness of each person, and serves to uplift others in body, mind and spirit. AdventHealth is a place where you can thrive professionally, and grow spiritually, by Extending the Healing Ministry of Christ. Where you will be valued for who you are and the unique experiences you bring to our purpose-minded team. All while understanding that together we are even better.

Schedule: Full Time

Shift:   Days

Location: AdventHealth Great Lakes Region

The role you’ll contribute:

The Medication Safety Manager (MSM) reviews, coordinates, administers, and implements medication safety initiatives.  The MSM oversees adverse drug event reporting activities and assists the Medication Safety Officer and other management staff in the administration, supervision and consolidation of medication safety initiatives.  The MSM serves as a resource to the Medication Safety Officer, pharmacy, risk management, quality and performance improvement departments on matters of medication safety and regulatory compliance.

This position serves the needs of neonatal, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients. Under the supervision of the Medication Safety Officer, the MSM performs all duties necessary to provide for the effective daily operation of all department services and programs.  The MSM actively participates in outstanding customer service and accepts responsibility in maintaining relationships that are equally respectful to all.

The value you’ll bring to the team:

Scope of Responsibility:

• Identifies opportunities for proactive change in the medication use-system to improve patient safety utilizing medication event-reporting data, published best practice standards, and published events or recommendations.  Reviews high volume, high risk, and problem prone or critical aspects of care processes for prioritization of potential medication safety improvements.
• Enhances professional growth and development through participation in educational programs, current literature, and research.  Systematically provides best practices and evidenced-based medication safety information to all pertinent stakeholders.
• Performs all other related duties as assigned by the supervisor.

Compliance/Regulatory Responsibility:

• Provides oversight that ensures all patient 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.
• Assesses and reports the status of efforts to improve medication-use safety to campus leaders, decision-makers, and staff.  Serves as a member of the Medication Safety Committee and other relevant Hospital Committees focused on medical error reduction. 
• Formulates an effective strategy for facilitating, through collaboration with other leadership, hospital compliance with all applicable federal, state, local, and organizational regulations and policies related to medication-use safety, as well as with the standards of accreditation organizations.
• Develops strategies to minimize the potential for medication errors associated with medication labeling, packaging, nomenclature, storage, standardization, preparation, distribution, dispensing, and administration.

Strategic Planning Responsibility:

• Responsible for the assisting the Medication Safety Officer in the development and execution of a strategic medication safety plan in both the short term and long term.

Performance Improvement Responsibility:

• Leads the review and evaluation of significant medication variances and recommends process/system changes.  In collaboration with the risk management team(s) and the pertinent healthcare providers, formulates a plan to address the suggestions for change resulting from root-cause analyses.  Follows up to assure plan is implemented and the intended outcome to reduce risk of future occurrences is achieved. Leads failure mode effects analysis on medication use systems, as necessary.

Community Relations Responsibility:

• Acts as a preceptor for pharmacy residents based on the guidelines of the ASHP residency accreditation standards and for pharmacy students on rotation consistent with academic requirements.

Staffing/Labor/Supervisory Responsibility:

• Works with clinical areas to ensure that medications are stored, prescribed, transcribed, prepared, dispensed, and administered in a physical environment reflecting careful consideration of the principles of human factors engineering.
• Ensures the proficiency of health care providers and other pertinent health system staff in safe medication use practices by utilizing appropriate analytical tools and process improvement techniques.  Assists in the implementation of training/orientation programs in safe medication practices and competency assessment for evaluating the staff's ability to perform tasks related to medication safety.  
• Supervises the Medication Safety Pharmacists within the region, oversees data analysts and the Medication-Use Safety and Policy Post-Graduate Year 2 Pharmacy Resident.

The expertise and experiences you’ll need to succeed:

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS REQUIRED:

• Strong organization skills
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Effective oral and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex information in

understandable terms to all levels of staff

• Effective computer skills, particularly Microsoft Office Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Ability to work well without supervision
• Initiative to keep abreast of developments in the provision of pharmacy services
• Ability to teach, precept and facilitate experiential training
• Ability to integrate clinical pharmacy services with quality improvement, teaching, research, and

professional development activities

• Application of Just Culture principles
• Strong operational knowledge of key medication safety technologies including medication dispensing systems, IV pumps, barcode medication administration, and computerized provider order entry

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS PREFERRED:

• Expertise with Project and Change management methodology
• Working knowledge of Cerner or Epic pharmacy solutions and services
• Working analytical and data management skills
• Expertise with Lean Process Management or Six Sigma Process Improvement

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• Doctor of Pharmacy degree
• PGY-1 pharmacy resident or equivalent experience
• Two (2) years of contemporary hospital pharmacy practice experience

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE PREFERRED:

• Masters of Health Administration, Business Administration or other advanced degree in pharmacy or healthcare leadership
• Medication safety training by the Institute for Safe Medicine Practices (ISMP) or the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)
• PGY1 Pharmacy Residency and PGY2 Specialty Residency or Fellowship, OR
• PGY2 Medication Use Safety & Policy Residency or Health-System Pharmacy Administration Residency
• Three (3) years of supervisory and teaching experience

LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION OR REGISTRATION REQUIRED:

• Current, valid State of IL Pharmacist license

LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION OR REGISTRATION PREFERRED:

• Medication safety certification by the American Society of Health System Pharmacists (ASHP) / Institute for Safe Medicine Practices (ISMP), the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)
• Eligible for registration as a pharmacist preceptor with the Illinois Board of Pharmacy and the various schools of pharmacy located within the State of Illinois

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

Supervises the Medication Safety pharmacists within the region

Co-Directs the Medication-Use Safety and Policy Post-Graduate Year 2 Pharmacy Resident

Oversees data analysts