Pharmacy Supervisor
retail_hospitality › Pharmacy · M1 — M1 — Manager (Team Lead) · Management
Frontline supervisor overseeing daily pharmacy operations and a small team of pharmacists and technicians.
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What this role is
Frontline supervisor overseeing daily pharmacy operations and a small team of pharmacists and technicians. At the Manager (Team Lead) (M1) level, the role owns a single team, day-to-day delivery and people issues, and drives team output and health. Direct people management of one team.
What this level does
- Supervise day-to-day dispensing workflow for a single pharmacy unit, overseeing technicians as they stock inventory shelves, keep patient profiles up-to-date, answer telephone calls, and maintain pharmacy-related records
- Ensure staff correctly use pharmacy automation and medication-use information systems, including bar code scanning, to safely and efficiently prepare medications for patients
- Assign and balance daily technician tasks (labeling, medication assembly and storage, insurance claim processing) so prescriptions move through the queue accurately and on time
- Monitor drug inventory within automated dispensing systems, flag near-outages, and escalate potential drug interactions and dispensing errors to the pharmacist for professional review
- Provide on-the-job coaching to technicians on accuracy with names, strengths, quantities, directions, and dates against established practices
- Knowledge applied
- Applies functional pharmacy-operations expertise to a single unit; oversees dispensing workflow, records, automation and bar-code use within established practices.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Limited scope; resolves routine dispensing, stocking, and staffing issues using established procedures and escalates clinical judgment to the pharmacist.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Daily interaction with technicians, staff pharmacists, and patients; coordinates with prescribers' offices on transactional issues.
- Typical experience
- Functional pharmacy expert (senior technician/staff pharmacist) with some leadership exposure.
Skills at this level
- Pharmacy Operations Management
- — Runs day-to-day pharmacy dispensing workflow — queue balancing, medication assembly and storage, and record-keeping — so prescriptions are prepared accurately and on time.
- Regulatory Compliance
- — Ensures pharmacy records, controlled-substance handling, and dispensing practices comply with all federal and state requirements and reflect current legal best practices.
- Drug Inventory and Shortage Management
- — Purchases drugs, identifies and manages drug shortages, and modifies inventory within automated dispensing systems to keep a diverse, adequately stocked selection available.
- Pharmacy Automation Systems
- — Uses and oversees pharmacy automation and medication-use information systems, including bar-code scanning, to prepare and verify medications safely and efficiently.
- Insurance Claims Processing
- — Processes and troubleshoots pharmacy insurance claims and rejections, ensuring billing accuracy and resolving coverage issues for patients.
- Staff Training and Development
- — Trains and onboards technicians and pharmacists on labeling, claim processing, medication assembly, ordering, and customer interaction, and supervises interns.
- Fiscal and Budget Management
- — Manages pharmacy operating budgets, labor costs, and contracts, using volume and turnover data to adjust staffing and purchasing.
- Attention to Detail
- — Maintains accuracy with names, strengths, quantities, directions, dates, and records throughout the dispensing and verification process.
- Communication
- — Communicates effectively with patients, pharmacists, prescribers' offices, and team members to resolve prescription and service issues.
- Strategic Program Planning
- — Develops pharmacy program goals, represents the program in strategic planning, and coordinates program development across state, federal, and local agencies and partners.
- Computer Literacy
- — Works confidently with POS systems, pharmacy management software, patient records, and barcode tools used in retail pharmacy operations.
- Contract Management
- — Manages pharmacy vendor and payer contracts as part of directing program fiscal operations and service delivery.
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