The salary range for this position is CAD $54.16 - $77.86 / hour
Job Summary
Are you motivated to join a dedicated team of health care providers in this dynamic and rewarding role? Are you interested in a career where you can make an impact on the well-being of others?
Get to know Lower Mainland Pharmacy Services:
We are a collaboration of four premier health employers Fraser Health, Provincial Health Services, Providence and Vancouver Coastal Health and provide an integrated approach to pharmaceutical care and service excellence patients, residents and clients committed to investing in your professional development in building an environment where you can advance your career.
Position Highlights:
We currently have an exciting Full Time opportunity for a Manager, Pharmacy Information & Automation to join our team at Vancouver General Hospital and the Langley Fulfillment Centre located in Vancouver and Langley, BC.
If this sounds like the perfect role for you, here’s why we believe you should apply:
- A career that offers you the opportunity to work in a fast growing and exciting organization with professionals who are eminent in their respective fields.
- Competitive salary package, including comprehensive health benefits coverage.
Our pharmacy team always aspires to improve and achieve the best possible care for our patients and improve their quality of life.
We hire great people for outstanding jobs and need your help to expand the ability to deliver prompt and professional service.
We aim to build an environment where you love the work you do, the place where you work, and the people around you. From the financial advisor handling our health care resources, to the IT professional enabling life-saving data, to the nurse and physician on the front line of patient care, everyone plays a role in the care continuum. Together, we build outstanding workplaces.
We invite you to apply today and find out why employees recommend Fraser Health to their friends as an exceptional place to work.
Apply now to join our excellent team!
One team, best pharmacy care, better lives.
Detailed Overview
The Manager, Pharmacy Informatics & Automation is responsible and accountable for providing leadership and direction in the planning, design, strategies, integration, implementation and maintenance of pharmacy information systems, downstream automation and informatics for Lower Mainland Pharmacy Services (LMPS) which includes Fraser Health Authority, Provincial Health Services Authority, Vancouver Coastal Health Authority and Providence Health Care; ensures informatics and automation policies and procedures comply with professional, legal and privacy standards established for LMPS.
Directs the planning, implementation, maintenance and evaluation of the practice model and standards for informatics including educational programs; manages the development of a pharmacy informatics model to optimize desired patient/client/resident care outcomes and pharmacy operations for information systems and automation across the Lower Mainland.
Responsibilities
- Develops and evaluates the short and long term goals/service objectives for Pharmacy Informatics & Automation portfolio, in support of the strategic direction/objectives of LMPS.
- Manages the planning process for the Pharmacy Informatics & Automation portfolio and facilitates the integration of all service area plans to ensure high quality and cost effective pharmacy services are provided to patients/clients/residents across the Lower Mainland.
- Develops, implements, reviews and evaluates department policy and procedures to ensure compliance with professional, legal, privacy and LMPS standards; monitors and evaluates the achievement of service objectives for the department; implements corrective actions, as needed to meet service objectives.
- Consults and negotiates with user areas to improve pharmacy informatics services by providing professional advice, reducing costs, facilitating consensus and resolving issues.
- Provides leadership and direction to Pharmacy Informatics & Automation staff for the portfolio by determining staff complement, providing continuing staff development, education and training to ensure current skill sets and knowledge base of staff.
- Selects, hires, directs, supervises and evaluates staff to ensure the effective performance of duties; disciplines and initiates employee terminations, as required.
- Interprets and administers applicable collective agreement provisions; investigates and responds to employee grievances including grievances of a confidential manner; represents management up to and including Stage 3 of the grievance process; attends third party meetings as the Employer representative, as needed.
- Prepares the annual operating and capital budget for assigned portfolio/area and new automation projects; monitors portfolio/project activities and ensures expenditures are within approved budgets; performs corrective action, as required and identifies efficiencies; promotes the optimal use of available resources by recommending current/future program requirements to the Director, LMPS.
- Manages and/or oversees pharmacy informatics and automation projects from inception to completion within allocated resources and specified timelines; assigns staff, as required to work on different aspects of the project to ensure project milestones are met and the projects moves forward; develops business cases, operational and risk management strategies, arranges for approvals to ensure adequate resources and manages project budgets to ensure projects/programs are effectively designed, continuously evaluated and changes are implemented based on evaluations of the project.
- Prepares and/or provides statistics and information on workload management, portfolio activity, quality assurance and clinical use on a schedule or requested basis.
- Reviews all interdisciplinary or external requests for medication-related information from LMPS databases for the department and forward requests to Information Privacy, as needed; participates on and/or leads internal and external committees, as assigned.
Qualifications
Education and Experience
Completion of recognized pharmacy residency program.
Master's degree in Pharmacy, Clinical Informatics, Business Administration, Health Administration and/or related discipline. Seven (7) years' recent related experience with clinical/pharmacy information systems and automation including two (2) years' experience in a supervisory/leadership role, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
Current registration as a Licensed Pharmacist with the College of Pharmacists of BC and active membership in the Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists.
Competencies
Demonstrates the leadership practices of the Fraser Health Leadership Framework of Clear, Caring and Courageous and creates the conditions for people to succeed.
Professional/Technical Capabilities
- Ability to recommend, implement, monitor and evaluate therapeutic programs
- Ability to integrate administrative, professional and operational aspects of the designed portfolio
- Ability to manage and implement practice changes including leading and supporting change
- Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to develop and nurture a culture of continuous quality improvement
- Ability to design, conduct and publish research
- Working knowledge of applicable legislation, regulations and collective agreements
- Ability to operate related equipment including applicable software applications
- Physical ability to perform the duties of the position
About Fraser Health
Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.
People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 48,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.
We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the work force. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.
Together, we are the heart of health care.
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