Community Pharmacy Manager

Optum; Bakersfield (CA); On-site; USD 154,291,000 - 265,877,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on bonus: $20,000

Healthcare benefits

Job summary

Genoa Healthcare is opening a new Pharmacy inside a Behavioral Health and Recovery clinic in Bakersfield, CA. This Pharmacist Manager will oversee daily operations, counsel patients, and partner with clinic staff to ensure optimal care and adherence to regulations.

The role emphasizes leadership, coaching, and talent development, with a $20,000 sign-on bonus and competitive benefits. Hours are Monday–Friday, 8am–5pm, at the Bakersfield site.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy or PharmD.
• Completion or proof of CA Pharmacist-in-Charge Overview and Responsibility training.
• Current California pharmacist license.
• Certified immunizer or willingness to become one within 3 months.

Responsibilities

• Creates a great consumer and clinic partner experience and builds relationships.
• Counsels and educates patients on medication usage and adverse effects.
• Oversees daily pharmacy operations and staff development.
• Ensures compliance with state and federal laws.
• Drives profitability and identifies opportunities to grow the pharmacy.

Skills

Leadership

Coaching

Patient counselling

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy or PharmD

CA Pharmacist-in-Charge training

California pharmacist license

Immunizer certification

Job description

***$20,000 Sign-On Bonus***

Opportunities with Genoa Healthcare. A career with Genoa Healthcare means you're part of a collaborative effort to serve behavioral health and addiction treatment communities. We do more than just provide medicine: we change lives for the better. People with serious mental or chronic illness - and those who care for them - have moving stories, and at Genoa we become their voice, their partner. Working as part of a coordinated care team, we partner with community-based providers and others to ensure that people with complex health conditions get the right medications and are able to follow their treatment plans. Our personalized services - in-clinic pharmacies, medication management and more - are leading the way to a new level of care.

Genoa is a pharmacy care services company that is part of Optum and UnitedHealth Group's family of businesses. We are part of a leading information and technology-enabled health services business dedicated to making the health system work better for everyone. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

The Pharmacist Manager is a key position that has a substantial impact with our consumers and clinic partners by partnering and advising both on our pharmaceutical care services and benefits. This individual is responsible for the financial, clinical and quality for pharmacy services and will oversee the daily operations of a pharmacy including dispensing prescription medication and spending one-on-one time with the consumers. Coaching, developing and managing pharmacy staff is also a key responsibility of this role. The manager will act as a talent steward and proactively seek top talent for the pharmacy roles.

Tour a Genoa Pharmacy at the following link: Genoa Healthcare On-site Pharmacy Tour (youtube.com)

This will be for our NEW Pharmacy located inside the Behavioral Health and Recovery clinic located in Bakersfield, CA. Hours will be Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Creates a great consumer and clinic partner experience and continually builds solid relationships with both groups to proactively meet their needs


• Serves as an expert to the clinical staff and proactively meets with their team on meeting their clinical outcomes


• Counsels and educates patients on the usage of medications, adverse effects, schedules and any personal questions from the consumers


• Ensures the pharmacy and team members follow policies and standards in accordance with state and federal laws


• Performs wellness services such as immunizations, flu shots and other preventive services


• Responsible for financial profitability and identifies opportunities to drive growth in the pharmacy


• Motivates, develops and coaches all pharmacy staff to ensure they are meeting their potential and delivering exceptional service


• Creates an engaging team environment which promotes compassion and models our core values and culture amongst the team


• Proactively promotes opportunities and recruiting top talent at our pharmacies


• Reviews key performance indicators with pharmacy staff and identifies trends and opportunities for improvement


• Conducts workforce planning and business planning to have operational excellence at the site


• Builds solid relationships with the community, stakeholders and clinic partners to ensure we are meeting all needs and promote the pharmacy business


• Drives marketing plans and materials to promote all pharmacy offerings

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy or PharmD


• Candidates must complete CA Board's Pharmacist-in-Charge Overview and Responsibility training course or provide proof of completion prior to starting


• Current pharmacist's license in the state of California


• Certified immunizer or willing to become an immunizer within 3 months of hire

Preferred Qualification:

• 3+ years of pharmacist leadership experience

ManagementSuccessPractices:

• Being customer centric: These leaders are finding out what their customers want, then design processes and plan the work to create a better customer experience


• Developing Others: Managers need to make sure that the right talent is in the right job, with capabilities aligned to the demands of the work. Managers who set the conditions for development act as talent stewards. By providing ongoing coaching and feedback and supporting mobility into other roles or development experiences, they help employees achieve fulfilling results


• Communicating enterprise purpose: This includes communicating vision, values, culture, strategy, objectives and goals. The manager and the team then have to translate the purpose into the specific tasks of the team, so everyone know where everything fits


• Creating high performing teams: Creating and fostering high-performing teams is essential. An effective team has task clarity and right assembly of talent to do the job. Team members have accountabilities and know what to do. The team culture is collaborative. Measures are in place to monitor progress, including feedback loops to add corrective advice and counsel


• Assuring results: Managers must deliver through others. They keep their teams on task, focusing on specific goals and targets. Managers will execute on plans while leveraging internal and external customer and stakeholder feedback to make adjustments


• Technical and functional skills: These leaders know their industry, technical platform, key function of all roles and is a life-long learner

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The hourly pay for this role will range from$54.18 to $92.88 per hour based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.