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Job Summary: In addition to the responsibilities listed below, this position is also responsible for leading implementation and driving market and/or organization wide adoption of pharmacy medication safety and quality system projects; leveraging quantifiable results of medication safety and quality initiatives to promote sustainable and repeatable medication safety behaviors; implementing standardized processes and best practices to achieve and prioritize quality goals and safety, and proactively avoid risk; executing risk assessments using medication safety reporting systems and performing medication error analysis (e.g., Root Cause Analysis, Gap Analysis, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis) to assess, plan, and help implement process improvements; collaborating with pharmacy leadership to recommend and implement risk reduction strategies; serving as a medication safety subject matter expert by being an educational resource and facilitating educational opportunities; supporting creation of policies pertaining to medication safety; active involvement, leadership, and communication with interregional and national medication safety committees, forums, professional associations, and other committees supporting medication and patient safety agendas; creating a culture of safety and risk management to maintain and improve medication safety practices; ensuring regulatory and accreditation compliance for medication safety through regular safety audits. Essential Responsibilities: + Promotes learning in others by proactively providing and/or developing information, resources, advice, and expertise with coworkers and members; builds relationships with cross-functional/external stakeholders and customers. Listens to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; proactively provides actionable feedback to others and to managers. Pursues self-development; creates and executes plans to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; leads by influencing others through technical explanations and examples and provides options and recommendations. Adopts new responsibilities; adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback; demonstrates flexibility in approaches to work; champions change and helps others adapt to new tasks and processes. Facilitates team collaboration to support a business outcome. + Completes work assignments autonomously and supports business-specific projects by applying expertise in subject area and business knowledge to generate creative solutions; encourages team members to adapt to and follow all procedures and policies. Collaborates cross-functionally and/or externally to achieve effective business decisions; provides recommendations and solves complex problems; escalates high-priority issues or risks, as appropriate; monitors progress and results. Supports the development of work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; identifies resources to accomplish priorities and deadlines. Identifies, speaks up, and capitalizes on improvement opportunities across teams; uses influence to guide others and engages stakeholders to achieve appropriate solutions. + Applies strategies and concepts to independently support pharmacy and healthcare professionals by: independently leveraging systems and implementing programs and tools related to analytics and informatics to track prescription use data and support relevant patient-facing teams; collaborating with and co-leading meetings and relevant committees to support front-line operations; and exercising a patient focus throughout ones technical expertise and activities and identifying patient related issues, challenges, possible improvements and taking action to ensure the downstream patient impacts are being followed up on. + Supports various functions within operations and may support operations in a specific area or set of pharmacies by: collaborating with interdisciplinary teams to implement pharmacotherapy safety practices and initiatives; implementing pharmacy operations initiatives and programs that directly support the day to day functioning of a specified set of pharmacies or locations and orchestrates across relevant groups on the rollout, staffing, education, etc. requirements; and maintaining various operational needs (e.g., workflow management, policy management, systems improvement, etc.), ensuring policy compliance, and identifying possible process or system improvements. + Contributes to service, affordability, people, quality of care, and regulatory pharmacy goals by: leading efforts to create, design, and help implement strategic plan to support improvements to service, quality, people, affordability, and regulatory initiatives; evaluating data trends from and may being aiding in creation of tools and dashboards to enable implementation of new programs and initiatives; reviewing and mentoring others to conduct sweeps of new laws and rules from regulatory agencies and ensures application into operations (e.g., FAQs to markets); building and socializing new tools to ensure awareness and use; evaluating accuracy of inputs into and may be building accountability dashboard to ensure rules are followed; and aligns own operations goals to and assists junior colleagues to adhere to key affordability metrics. + Serves as a subject matter expert for quality improvement processes and regulations within assigned area by: maintaining awareness of current internal policies and relevant external laws, regulations, and standards and serves as a source of expertise within certain defined areas; independently coordinating committees and projects that provide input and guidance on various improvement initiatives; developing, conducting, coordinating, and identifying quality improvements related to medication safety for assigned clinical area; researching and reporting related material; and anticipating issues, weighing practical considerations in addressing issues and seeking input from engagement manager/sponsor to resolve; leveraging knowledge of a wide array of drugs and their uses and how they impact clinical practices; guiding members, patients and/or healthcare providers to understand appropriate use and application of prescribed medication and providing drug information to relevant healthcare providers; applying advanced strategy to ensure achievement of member financial and therapeutic objectives; and analyzing, tracking, and reporting detailed member data to help assess plan outcomes. Minimum Qualifications: + Minimum four (4) years of experience in Pharmacy Improvement, Quality Assurance, or Medication Safety. + Doctorate of Pharmacy or equivalent degree (i.e., Bachelors of Pharmacy from a School of Pharmacy). + Minimum one (1) year of experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports. + Pharmacist License (Hawaii) within 12 months of hire OR Pharmacist License (Georgia) within 12 months of hire OR Pharmacist License (Oregon) within 12 months of hire OR Pharmacist License (District of Columbia) within 12 months of hire OR Pharmacist License (California) within 12 months of hire OR Pharmacist License (Colorado) within 12 months of hire OR Pharmacist License (Washington) within 12 months of hire OR Pharmacist License (Maryland) within 12 months of hire OR Pharmacist License (Virginia) within 12 months of hire + Pharmacist License (from any state) required at hire Additional Requirements: + Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs): Medication Safety; Medication Risk Analysis; Negotiation; Applied Data Analysis; Trend Analysis; Work Process Design; Pharmaceuticals Distribution Compliance COMPANY: KAISER TITLE: Pharmacy Operations Specialist IV, Medication Safety - Mail Order - *Locations Preferred: CA, OR, WA, VA, MD, or DC* LOCATION: Downey, California REQNUMBER: 1352259 External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, state and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran, or disability status.

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