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Inpatient Pharmacy Manager
Macpower Digital Assets Edge Private Limited
🇺🇸 United States
On-site
Manager or above
5 days ago
$149,600 – $224,500 / year
- Epic
- PharmD
- BLS
- ACLS
5 days ago
- The Inpatient Pharmacy Operations Manager provides comprehensive leadership for both the operational and clinical functions of inpatient pharmacy services in a small rural hospital with advanced clinical care. This role is responsible for ensuring safe, efficient medication distribution and high-quality, evidence-based medication therapy. The position directly manages pharmacy technicians and pharmacists, supports advanced clinical services, and serves as a pharmacy lead for Epic Willow inpatient workflows.
- This role requires a hands-on leader who can balance operational demands with clinical excellence while supporting education and professional development in a resource-limited environment.
- Oversee daily inpatient pharmacy operations, including medication distribution, sterile compounding, automated dispensing cabinets (ADCs), controlled substances, and inventory management
- Ensure compliance with USP<797> /<800> , Joint Commission standards, and all applicable state and federal regulations
- Lead optimization of medication distribution systems, including ADC configuration, cart fill workflows, and Epic–ADC integration
- Oversee drug purchasing, shortage mitigation, medication waste reduction, and budget stewardship
- Develop, maintain, and enforce standard operating procedures (SOPs) aligned with regulatory, safety, and operational best practices
- Lead operational quality improvement initiatives and track performance and safety metrics
- Provide direct operational support during staffing shortages, off-hours, or high-volume periods
- Support inpatient clinical pharmacy services across all service lines to ensure safe, effective, and evidence-based medication use.
- Lead medication safety initiatives, including adverse drug event review, root cause analysis, and process improvement
- Support formulary management, medication utilization evaluations, and Pharmacy & Therapeutics (P&T) Committee activities
- Provide hands-on clinical pharmacist support during high-acuity periods or staffing shortages
- Serve as a pharmacy lead for Epic Willow Inpatient, including both operational and clinical workflows
- Oversee medication records, order routing, dispense workflows, inventory functionality, and reporting
- Lead clinical decision support (CDS), order sets, pharmacist documentation tools, and intervention tracking
- Collaborate with IT and clinical stakeholders on Epic upgrades, optimization, and issue resolution
- Ensure Epic workflows align with regulatory requirements, patient safety goals, and rural staffing realities
- Directly supervise pharmacy technicians and pharmacists, including hiring, onboarding, scheduling, training, competency validation, and performance management
- Lead initial and ongoing education for pharmacy staff related to operational workflows, clinical protocols, medication safety, and Epic functionality
- Promote technician skill advancement and cross-training to support both operational and clinical needs
- Support pharmacist professional development, clinical skill advancement, and practice at the top of license
- Provide medication-related education to nursing staff, providers, and interdisciplinary teams as needed
- Support precepting of pharmacy students, residents, or learners when applicable
- Collaborate with nursing, medical staff, quality, supply chain, IT, and hospital leadership to resolve medication-related issues
- Serve as the primary point of contact for inpatient medication-use processes
- Represent pharmacy leadership on hospital committees and interdisciplinary initiatives
- PharmD required.
- Active pharmacist license in CO.
- Hospital pharmacy experience required; rural hospital experience strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated leadership in both pharmacy operations and clinical pharmacy services.
- Experience managing pharmacy technicians and pharmacists.
- Epic Willow Inpatient experience strongly preferred.
- Strong regulatory knowledge, clinical judgment, communication, and teaching skills.
- BLS from AHA.
- ACLS from AHA.
Inpatient Pharmacy Manager · Macpower Digital Assets Edge Private Limited