AVP Clinical Pharmacy Services

RXinsider LTD.; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work from Home

Total rewards package

401(k) with company match

Tuition and certification support

Fertility and family building support

Job summary

HealthTrust, in collaboration with HCA Healthcare, seeks an AVP of Clinical Pharmacy Services to establish and lead the enterprise strategy for clinical pharmacy across the health system. The role partners with safety, quality, informatics, and operations to standardize practice and drive measurable improvements in patient care.

The AVP will guide governance, set standards, and oversee transformational initiatives, including technology adoption and medication alignment, while traveling up to 25%

Qualifications

• Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) or Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from an accredited school of pharmacy is required; Advanced degree in pharmacy, healthcare administration, business administration, public health, or a related field is preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive health-system pharmacy experience, including significant clinical pharmacy leadership experience is required.
• 5+ years of leadership experience with responsibility for clinical pharmacy programs, teams, or services is required.
• Demonstrated experience leading clinical pharmacy strategy, practice transformation, and standardization within a large, complex health system or multi-hospital organization is required.
• Demonstrated experience leading interdisciplinary initiatives involving pharmacy, physicians, nursing, patient safety, quality, informatics, and operations is required.
• Ability to travel up to 25% is required.

Responsibilities

• Develops and leads the enterprise strategy, vision, and multi-year roadmap for clinical pharmacy services in alignment with the Chief Pharmacy Officer and organizational priorities.
• Establishes enterprise clinical pharmacy practice standards, models, policies, and expectations to reduce unwarranted variation while supporting appropriate local adaptation.
• Establishes and leads clinical pharmacy governance for evaluating practices, prioritizing initiatives, approving standards, measuring adoption, and driving accountability.
• Partners with patient safety, quality, pharmacy operations, medical staff, nursing, and other stakeholders to identify medication-related risks and implement standardized safety strategies.
• Provides clinical leadership for centralized pharmacy order entry and related workflows to support medication safety, clinical effectiveness, standardization, and operational efficiency.
• Provides senior pharmacy clinical leadership for MEDITECH Expanse acceleration, adoption, and optimization, including medication workflows, clinical decision support, order sets, and pharmacist workflows.
• Provides executive oversight for medication alignment initiatives to promote evidence-based medication use, formulary alignment, standardization, and reduction of unnecessary variation.
• Ensures close integration between clinical pharmacy strategy and pharmacy operations so standards are operationally executable, scalable, measurable, and sustainable.
• Leads development and advancement of enterprise clinical pharmacy programs based on evidence, patient needs, regulatory requirements, and opportunities to improve quality, safety, outcomes, and value.
• Establishes clinical pharmacy performance measures, dashboards, and outcome metrics to evaluate effectiveness, adoption, variation, medication safety, operational impact, and value.
• Establishes processes to evaluate emerging evidence, professional guidelines, medication-use trends, and new clinical practices and translate findings into enterprise pharmacy practice.
• Partners with pharmacy informatics, IT, clinical informatics, and operational teams to optimize technology, automation, analytics, and clinical decision support.
• Builds partnerships with physician, nursing, quality, safety, and other clinical leaders to advance medication-use initiatives and integrate pharmacists into interdisciplinary patient care.
• Leads complex enterprise clinical transformation initiatives across corporate, division, and facility teams and establishes accountability for adoption, sustainability, and measurable results.
• Provides leadership, coaching, development, and performance oversight for the Director of Clinical Services, Division Directors of Clinical Pharmacy, Director of Medication Alignment, Clinical Specialists, and other assigned team members.
• Maintains awareness of evolving pharmacy practice standards, accreditation and regulatory requirements, medication safety priorities, technology capabilities, and national health-system pharmacy trends.
• Advises the Chief Pharmacy Officer and senior leaders regarding clinical pharmacy strategy, performance, risks, opportunities, resource requirements, and emerging trends.

Job description

This position is incentive eligible.

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Job Summary And Qualifications

The Associate Vice President (AVP), Pharmacy Clinical Services is responsible for establishing and leading the enterprise strategic direction for clinical pharmacy services.

• Reporting to the Chief Pharmacy Officer, the AVP provides executive leadership for the development, standardization, implementation, measurement, and continuous advancement of clinical pharmacy practice across the organization.
• Establishes an integrated clinical pharmacy strategy that promotes safe, evidence-based, efficient, and patient-centered medication use while reducing unwarranted variation in practice.
• Partners with pharmacy, medical, nursing, patient safety, quality, informatics, technology, and operational leaders to ensure alignment of clinical pharmacy services with patient safety, centralized order entry, MEDITECH Expanse acceleration and optimization, medication alignment, pharmacy operations, and other pharmacy transformation priorities.
• Provides leadership for the Director of Clinical Services, Division Directors of Clinical Pharmacy, Director of Medication Alignment, and Clinical Specialists and establishes the governance, standards, performance expectations, and measurement framework needed to advance a consistent and scalable clinical pharmacy model.

Major Responsibilities

• Develops and leads the enterprise strategy, vision, and multi-year roadmap for clinical pharmacy services in alignment with the Chief Pharmacy Officer and organizational priorities.
• Establishes enterprise clinical pharmacy practice standards, models, policies, and expectations to reduce unwarranted variation while supporting appropriate local adaptation.
• Establishes and leads clinical pharmacy governance for evaluating practices, prioritizing initiatives, approving standards, measuring adoption, and driving accountability.
• Partners with patient safety, quality, pharmacy operations, medical staff, nursing, and other stakeholders to identify medication-related risks and implement standardized safety strategies.
• Provides clinical leadership for centralized pharmacy order entry and related workflows to support medication safety, clinical effectiveness, standardization, and operational efficiency.
• Provides senior pharmacy clinical leadership for MEDITECH Expanse acceleration, adoption, and optimization, including medication workflows, clinical decision support, order sets, and pharmacist workflows.
• Provides executive oversight for medication alignment initiatives to promote evidence-based medication use, formulary alignment, standardization, and reduction of unnecessary variation.
• Ensures close integration between clinical pharmacy strategy and pharmacy operations so standards are operationally executable, scalable, measurable, and sustainable.
• Leads development and advancement of enterprise clinical pharmacy programs based on evidence, patient needs, regulatory requirements, and opportunities to improve quality, safety, outcomes, and value.
• Establishes clinical pharmacy performance measures, dashboards, and outcome metrics to evaluate effectiveness, adoption, variation, medication safety, operational impact, and value.
• Establishes processes to evaluate emerging evidence, professional guidelines, medication-use trends, and new clinical practices and translate findings into enterprise pharmacy practice.
• Partners with pharmacy informatics, IT, clinical informatics, and operational teams to optimize technology, automation, analytics, and clinical decision support.
• Builds partnerships with physician, nursing, quality, safety, and other clinical leaders to advance medication-use initiatives and integrate pharmacists into interdisciplinary patient care.
• Leads complex enterprise clinical transformation initiatives across corporate, division, and facility teams and establishes accountability for adoption, sustainability, and measurable results.
• Provides leadership, coaching, development, and performance oversight for the Director of Clinical Services, Division Directors of Clinical Pharmacy, Director of Medication Alignment, Clinical Specialists, and other assigned team members.
• Maintains awareness of evolving pharmacy practice standards, accreditation and regulatory requirements, medication safety priorities, technology capabilities, and national health-system pharmacy trends.
• Advises the Chief Pharmacy Officer and senior leaders regarding clinical pharmacy strategy, performance, risks, opportunities, resource requirements, and emerging trends.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

• Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) or Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from an accredited school of pharmacy is required; Advanced degree in pharmacy, healthcare administration, business administration, public health, or a related field is preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive health-system pharmacy experience, including significant clinical pharmacy leadership experience is required.
• 5+ years of leadership experience with responsibility for clinical pharmacy programs, teams, or services is required.
• Demonstrated experience leading clinical pharmacy strategy, practice transformation, and standardization within a large, complex health system or multi-hospital organization is required.
• Demonstrated experience leading interdisciplinary initiatives involving pharmacy, physicians, nursing, patient safety, quality, informatics, and operations is required.
• Ability to travel up to 25% is required.

Licenses, Certifications, & Training

• Current pharmacist licensure in at least one U.S. state is required
• Eligible to obtain additional licensure as required by organizational responsibilities is required.
• Board certification through the Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS), preferred.
• Completion of an ASHP-accredited pharmacy residency or equivalent health-system pharmacy experience, preferred.
• Advanced leadership or healthcare management training, preferred.

Benefits

Work from Home, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Learn More About Employee Benefits

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

In today's challenging business environment of cost pressures, supply disruptions, and workforce shortages, it is crucial for providers to efficiently manage expenses and enhance performance. HealthTrust, in collaboration with 1,800 hospitals and health systems, offers a specialized group purchasing organization (GPO) membership model designed to deliver immediate and sustainable cost savings. Their team of experts provides tailored value acceleration engagements to address specific needs, delivering unparalleled benefits. With nationwide purchasing power and a focus on overall spending management, HealthTrust offers unmatched pricing advantages on supplies, along with industry-leading benchmarks and best practices. The dedicated team is committed to guiding and implementing performance enhancements in cost, quality, and outcomes.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years. HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in costs for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

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