AVP, Clinical Pharmacy Strategy & Transformation

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

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%