Pharmacy Supervisor

Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center is an 1,045 bed facility located in the Texas medical center. A joint venture with Baylor College of Medicine, Baylor St. Luke’s is an internationally recognized leader in research and clinical excellence that has given rise to breakthroughs in cardiovascular care, neuroscience, oncology, transplantation, and more. The hospital is home to the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, a nationally-accredited and NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center. Our new McNair Campus is designed around the human experience—modeled on evidence-based practices for the safety of patients, visitors, staff, and physicians. The 27.5-acre campus represents the future of healthcare through a transformative alliance focused on leading-edge patient care, research, and education. 

As our Pharmacy Supervisor, you will be a vital leader and clinical expert, ensuring safe, efficient, and compassionate pharmaceutical care delivery, while guiding your team to uphold medication management standards.

Every day, you will lead pharmacy operations, including workflow and performance. You'll meticulously review prescriptions for safety (interactions, dosing, allergies), authorize them for technicians, and perform final dispensing checks, ensuring expert oversight. You'll also collaborate with doctors/nurses, providing expertise to optimize patient treatment and enhance services.

To be successful in this role, you will combine comprehensive clinical knowledge with proven leadership, team management, and problem-solving skills. Your ability to foster learning, drive operational excellence, and deliver innovative, patient-focused care is essential.

• Plans and evaluates the day-to-day operations of the department to meet the financial objectives in labor, revenue and gross margins.
  • Oversees daily workload and ensures the department is adequately and appropriately staffed.
  • Monitors labor budget/expenses, identifies variances and takes corrective action to remedy within designated scope of authority.
  • Develops, in conjunction with manager, programs, policies and procedures to maximize pharmacy usage and enhance customer service.
  • Ensures inventory control measures are being followed in accordance with department standards.
  • Ensures staff are compliant with policies and procedures.
  • May serve as the Pharmacy representative in management, administrative and/or interdisciplinary meetings.
  • Handles customer service/provider complaints.
• Coordinates and oversees pharmacy aspects related to compounding and dispensing of drugs in accordance with medication orders issued by authorized medical care providers.
  • Ensures the timely distribution of medications.
  • Oversees pharmacist and pharmacy technician workflows and works with staff to create efficiencies
• Supervises, instructs and mentors pharmacist staff, interns, residents, externs, students, technicians and nonpharmacy staff in the execution of duties and ensures adherence to policies and procedures in a positive, constructive and motivating  manner.
  • Responsible for hiring staff, performance management, and discipline of staff.
  • Promotes education and development of team members.
  • Orients employees and holds regular staff meetings to keep employees apprised of all matters relevant to successful job performance.
  • This position may serve as the Residency Program Director as applicable.
• Assists employees with complex/unprecedented/ambiguous matters, reviews elevated issues/situations and takes action consistent with assigned scope of authority.
  • Approves timecards; communicates performance standards and evaluates employee performance; counsel employees, and provides constructive feedback; develops additional mentors/preceptors from the specialty pharmacy team.
• Participates in the development and administration of the annual department budget.
  • Identifies financial objectives relating to labor, revenue and gross margins and implements tactics for achieving them; takes appropriate action to address and resolve variances.

Required

• Bachelors of Science in Pharmacy or Doctor of Pharmacy Degree (PharmD) and minimum of 2 years related experience, upon hire or
• Registered Pharmacist with the Texas State Board of Pharmacy in good standing-(RPH)

Preferred

• 1+ year of supervisory or lead experience or successful completion of a Pharmacy Administrative Residency