Job Summary: The Drug Diversion Prevention Manager provides oversight and direction for the daily operations of the JPS Health Network Drug Diversion Prevention Team. This position is accountable for all aspects of the drug diversion education, prevention, monitoring, investigation and reporting. The Drug Diversion Prevention Manager works collaboratively to ensure timely and consistent reporting of events.
Essential Job Functions & Accountabilities:
- Maintains a comprehensive drug diversion program to support drug diversion prevention, surveillance, investigations, response, reporting and education across the health system.
- Supports processes that assure JPS meets local, state and national standards around drug diversion prevention, surveillance, and reporting.
- Establishes and maintains the structure and processes of a comprehensive Drug Diversion and Prevention Program.
- Provides leadership in multidisciplinary education activities related to drug diversion.
- Designs comprehensive surveillance and auditing programs to detect drug diversion.
- Creates awareness of current analytic systems for detection capabilities.
- Collects and tracks diversion-related data from across the institution.
- Maintains a diversion detection software system.
- Leads the investigation process of suspected drug diversion incidents.
- Leads Root Cause Analysis after diversion noted to gain insight into opportunities to mitigate risk in other similar areas.
- Ensures that internal and external regulatory reporting occurs as required following each diversion event, in collaboration with legal counsel.
- Convenes the diversion response team to analyze data of suspected diversion cases.
- Develops and maintains drug handling, diversion prevention, detection and reporting policies.
- Collaborates with all relevant departments on controlled medication and diversion issues and serve as a resource for all staff.
- Serves as a liaison to affiliates and to the community.
- Works collaboratively with internal audit and compliance to ensure a comprehensive and effective audit program.
- Develops direct reports by defining roles/responsibilities and expectations, assigning and communicating performance, and promoting professional growth and accountability. Communicates and aligns work priorities with the organizational vision, mission, values, and service standards.
- Job description is not an all-inclusive list of duties and may be subject to change with or without notice. Staff are expected to perform other duties as assigned
Required Qualifications:
- MUST HAVE A Doctorate of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) or equivalent from an accredited College of Pharmacy.
- 5 plus years of relevant experience.
- Prior leadership experience.
- Must have current pharmacist licensure from the Texas State Board of Pharmacy or proof of reciprocity of licensure between the State of Texas and another state or eligible for Texas Pharmacist license.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working on-call.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Knowledge of regulatory requirements related to Drug Diversion detection and prevention.
- Skill in facilitation and teaching to provide effective educational programs to persons of varied levels of educational and learning skills.
- Skill at exercising tact and diplomacy in dealing with sensitive, complex, and confidential issues and situations involving department employees, patients, and visitors.
- Skill in time management, including prioritizing, organizing, and coordinating multiple work areas and assignments under fast-paced and changing conditions to meet deadlines.
- Ability to maintain a professional demeanor with both internal and external customers and to promote good interpersonal relationships.
- Ability to work in a fast paced, high stress environment.
- Ability to facilitate change and work collaboratively with diversion, multidisciplinary teams.
- Demonstrates the ability to effectively communicate in a well-organized, courteous, and effective manner (verbal and written) with both internal and external customers. Demonstrates the ability to adapt communication style to respond to different audiences and actively listens and considers the ideas of others.
- Takes personal responsibility for the quality and timeliness of work and achieves results with little oversight. Acknowledges and corrects mistakes while balancing the quality of work with meeting deadlines.
- Ability to recruit and retain competent staff utilizing coaching skills that will foster employee development, productivity, growth, satisfaction, loyalty, commitment, and teamwork.
- Ability to foster open communication, trust, support, and active departmental participation.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $135,200.00 - $145,600.00 per year
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
Ability to Relocate:
- Fort Worth, TX 76104: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Fort Worth, TX 76104