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Kaiser Permanente

Integrated healthcare provider and payer platform

Manager Pharmacy Care Delivery - Clinical Pharmacy

PharmacyPosted on Nov 10
Full-timeReno, NV, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A Doctorate of Pharmacy or equivalent degree, such as a Bachelor's of Pharmacy from a School of Pharmacy, is required, along with either completion of a Post-Graduate Year 1 residency at hire and at least two years of pharmacist or pharmacist-intern experience in pharmacy or a directly related field, or at least four years of that experience.
  • At least one year of experience managing operational or project budgets is required.
  • At least two years of experience in a leadership role, with or without direct reports, is required.
  • A National Provider Identifier is required within six months of hire.
  • A Nevada pharmacist license is required at hire.
  • Knowledge of cost optimization, commercial customer quality, confidentiality, stakeholder management, service focus, and external health care compliance is required.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with leading physicians to develop, maintain, and implement complex clinical practice standing orders, drug therapy management protocols, and guidelines, including collaborative protocols with providers.
  • Lead teams providing complex direct patient care, drug utilization, and ambulatory-care educational programs to improve patient adherence and outcomes and provider prescribing practices.
  • Manage the team or clinic and, as needed, provide direct patient care involving medication selection, dosage titration, drug monitoring, patient engagement, medication-adherence counseling, side-effect management, and medication discontinuation in line with strategic priorities.
  • Develop and maintain long-term provider relationships to align drug conversion, tapering, and discontinuation initiatives and identify opportunities.
  • Ensure teams implement initiatives; measure follow-up and minimize gaps to implement processes and workflows for assigned service areas.
  • Resolve or escalate complex formulary concerns and influence formulary adherence across multiple teams.
  • Lead initiative and clinical-services development, engage physicians to reduce practice variation, and monitor progress of complex new and existing initiatives.
  • Evaluate and develop services for a disease state, care grouping, or specialty, such as medication therapy management, and oversee service-area results after changes are applied.
  • Provide employee development opportunities; build cross-functional relationships; solicit and act on performance feedback; set goals; coach employees to improve performance; provide training and development; and support performance-management guidelines and expectations.
  • Lead organizational change and foster team dialogue, engagement, motivation, and collaboration; delegate tasks and decisions while providing guidance and supporting employee decision-making.
  • Manage a designated work unit or team by translating business plans into tactical actions, overseeing assignments, identifying improvement opportunities, and ensuring compliance with policies and procedures.
  • Align team efforts, establish accountability and measures, implement processes and methodologies, resolve escalated issues, set standards, and monitor progress.
  • Develop work plans, obtain and distribute resources, remove obstacles, address improvement opportunities, guide performance, develop contingency plans, and align team execution with operational objectives.
  • Oversee multiple teams' implementation and development of drug therapy, including drug-use management across teams, managers, and locations.
  • Evaluate and present high-impact medicine-utilization content to senior leaders; collaborate with senior health care providers on market changes and upcoming drugs; and oversee cross-team development of pharmacotherapeutic guidelines and training.
  • Guide strategies that help members, patients, and providers understand appropriate use, application, and interactions of prescribed medications, and provide drug information to relevant health care providers.
  • Drive strategies that achieve member financial and therapeutic objectives; evaluate service-area member data and implement action plans to affect outcomes.
  • Oversee drug education and training, including complex pharmacy and provider education to improve patient compliance and provider prescribing practices.
  • Manage relationships with care providers and members and lead team workflow and delivery of comprehensive pharmaceutical information on drug therapy, adverse effects, compliance, appropriate use, and handling.
  • Supervise therapeutic regimens and programs across multiple services, integrating patient-specific disease and drug information, current practice standards, ethical and quality-of-life issues, and pharmacoeconomic principles.
  • Lead development, implementation, and coordination of regional, hospital, hospital-based, or ambulatory drug initiatives, formulary management activities, and Kaiser Permanente-related drug trials.
  • Facilitate implementation, evaluate and report utilization of targeted medications and medication classes to senior managers, and monitor initiatives to support safe, rational, and cost-effective prescribing.
  • Manage processes for understanding clinician and department decisions, support, and feedback, and develop further support for the drug-use process.
  • Lead improvements and coordination of complex pharmaceutical care and optimal resource use across hospital, acute, and ambulatory patient-care settings.
  • Lead compliance with state and federal laws, regulatory bodies, quality standards, and organizational service standards, including Drug Enforcement Administration, State Board of Pharmacy, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, internal policies, and accreditation requirements.
  • Maintain knowledge of applicable policies and procedures and ensure work follows regulatory and accreditation requirements.
  • Manage investigations, responses, and resolutions of complex escalated member inquiries and concerns.
  • Lead collaboration with physicians, other medical professionals, and health-plan personnel to assess and resolve complex quality and process-outcome measures.

Desired Qualifications

  • Board of Pharmacy Specialties board certification.
  • Post-Graduate Year 2 residency or fellowship.

About the Company

Kaiser Permanente

Integrated healthcare provider and payer platform

Kaiser Permanente runs an integrated healthcare platform that lets members manage and pay medical, premium, and pharmacy bills online. It serves Medicare Advantage, Individual and Family, and non-employer plans, offering options to pay as a guest or set up payment plans. The platform works by presenting a centralized online portal where users can view bills, choose how to pay, and handle multiple types of charges in one place. Revenue comes from premiums and medical services fees, while the service aims to reduce administrative work for both providers and patients and encourage on-time payments. What sets Kaiser Permanente apart is its combination of healthcare services with a single billing experience across multiple plan types, focusing on a user-friendly, centralized payment process rather than handling billing through separate systems. Its goal is to provide a straightforward, reliable way for members to manage and pay their bills, improving convenience and payment timeliness.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Grant
Total funding
$7.5M
Headquarters
Oakland, CA
Founded
1945

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