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The Pharmacy Manager of Clinical Operations and Accreditation serves as a key leader within UVA Health’s Specialty Pharmacy, providing oversight of clinical pharmacist services and ensuring full compliance with accreditation and regulatory standards. This role is responsible for managing and developing the clinical pharmacist team, overseeing chronic disease management programs, and fostering strong clinic relationships to support provider collaboration. The manager ensures that pharmacists in clinic settings deliver high-quality services such as evidence-based prescribing support and patient education. The manager also leads all accreditation activities, including URAC, ACHC, and payer-specific program requirements, to maintain UVA’s position as a trusted specialty pharmacy provider. Through close collaboration with providers, clinical teams, and health system partners, the manager drives process improvement initiatives, advances new clinical service offerings, and ensures high-quality, patient-centered care that aligns with UVA Specialty Pharmacy’s mission of delivering accessible and affordable care to all patients.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the Clinical Pharmacist team, providing supervision, coaching, and professional development to ensure consistent delivery of high-quality patient care in clinic settings.

• Oversee clinical operations by ensuring pharmacists effectively manage chronic disease programs, conduct patient education, support providers with evidence-based prescribing, and collaborative practice agreements.

• Build and maintain strong relationships with clinics, providers, and health system leaders to support collaboration and integration of clinical pharmacy services.

• Ensure compliance with URAC and ACHC Specialty Pharmacy accreditations as well as payer-specific requirements, serving as the primary lead for all accreditation activities.

• Develop and refine standardized clinical workflows that promote consistency, efficiency, and measurable patient outcomes across all clinic-based pharmacy services.

• Partner with the Specialty Pharmacy medication access team by providing pharmacist oversight and clinical guidance to support benefit investigations and reduce patient access delays.

• Monitor performance through defined metrics, scorecards, and quality assurance reviews to drive continuous improvement.

• Establish credible relationships with stakeholders and health system partners including clinic leadership, providers, and pharmacy teams to identify opportunities for clinical service expansion and integration with health system initiatives.

• Support the growth of UVA’s specialty pharmacy services by ensuring readiness to capture volume from new payer & LDD contracts and programmatic growth.

+ Oversees daily pharmacy operation.

+ Complete essential human resource functions associated with staff supervision and team leadership.

+ Performs and monitors drug distribution procedures in compliance with state and federal laws and regulations as well as The Joint Commission, Medical Center and departmental policies, and all applicable regulatory bodies.

+ Serves as the team leader to provide leadership in the delivery of pharmacy services.

+ Supports educational mission through training of pharmacy residents, students, and pharmacy technician trainees and continuous professional growth.

+ Enhances the quality of delivery of care.

+ In addition to the above duties, additional duties may be assigned.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Education: Pharmacy degree (B.S. and/or Pharm.D.) from an ACPE accredited College of Pharmacy required. Master's degree preferred.

Experience: 1 year of experience required, management experience preferred. Specialized residency training in pharmacy administration will be considered in lieu of experience.

Licensure: Commonwealth of Virginia State Board of Pharmacy License required.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

This is primarily a sedentary job involving extensive use of desktop computers. The job does occasionally require traveling some distance to attend meetings, and programs.

Position Compensation Range: $115,827.00 - $231,655.00 Annual

Benefits

+ Comprehensive Benefits Package: Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

+ Paid Time Off, Long-term and Short-term Disability, Retirement Savings

+ Health Saving Plans, and Flexible Spending Accounts

+ Certification and education support

+ Generous Paid Time Off

UVA Health (https://jobs.virginia.edu/why-uva-health) is a world-class Magnet Recognized academic medical center and health system with a level 1 trauma center. 2023-2024 U.S. News & World Report “Best Hospitals” guide (https://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/area/va/university-of-virginia-medical-center-6344000) rates UVA Health University Medical Center as “High Performing” in 5 adult specialties and 14 conditions/procedures. We are one of 70 National Cancer Institute designated cancer centers. UVA Health Children’s (https://jobs.virginia.edu/uva-childrens) is named by 2023-2024 U.S. News & World Report (https://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/area/va/university-of-virginia-childrens-hospital-PA6344000) as the best children's hospital in Virginia with 9 specialties ranked among the best in the nation. Our footprint also encompasses 3 community hospitals and an integrated network of primary and specialty care clinics throughout Charlottesville, Culpeper, Northern Virginia, and beyond.