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Posted: 17-Oct-25
Location: Galveston, Texas
Type: Full Time
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About UTMB Health
UTMB Health is a Houston-area, four-institution health system home to the oldest medical school in Texas. The main academic medical center campus is on 84 acres overlooking the Gulf of Mexico in beautiful Galveston, Texas. It is also designated as a Level 1 Trauma Center, Level IV NICU, and comprehensive stroke center and is home to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Hospital. An integrated electronic medical record, Epic, is utilized in both the inpatient setting and the ambulatory clinics.
This is an exciting time to join the UTMB Health System! We are expanding our services and teams and are seeking highly motivated individuals to join our team and contribute to the growth of our organization.
Position 1: Director of Pharmacy Clinical Services
The Director of Pharmacy Clinical Services provides enterprise-wide leadership for the development, implementation, integration, and evaluation of clinical pharmacy services across UTMB Hospitals and Clinics, including acute care, ambulatory, specialty, infusion, and population health. This position ensures the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based, and cost-effective medication therapy management, aligning with organizational goals for clinical excellence, patient safety, quality outcomes, financial stewardship, and regulatory compliance.
The Director is responsible for strategic planning, program development, and operational oversight of all clinical pharmacy programs. This includes leadership of formulary management, medication-use evaluation, and clinical program innovation, as well as fostering interprofessional collaboration to optimize patient care. The role also drives integration of clinical services across all sites of care, ensuring consistency in medication-use practices, clinical effectiveness, and cost optimization. The Director champions a culture of innovation, professional growth, continuous improvement, and measurable outcomes in clinical pharmacy practice.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
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- Develop and execute strategic plans for clinical pharmacy services, aligning with UTMB’s mission, vision, and system-wide goals.
- Lead the design, implementation, and evaluation of clinical programs across acute care, ambulatory, specialty, infusion, and population health.
- Expand pharmacist-led services in areas such as transitions of care, chronic disease management, oncology, infusion therapy, and ambulatory care clinics.
- Drive standardization and integration of clinical services across all sites of care, ensuring consistent practice standards and optimal resource use.
- Lead formulary management processes, ensuring evidence-based, cost-effective medication use through the Pharmacy & Therapeutics (P&T) Committee.
- Oversee medication-use evaluations (MUEs), therapeutic interchanges, and targeted drug utilization programs to improve outcomes and reduce cost.
- Collaborate with clinical and operational leaders to address drug shortages, utilization trends, and system-wide therapeutic policy.
- Provide leadership for UTMB’s pharmacy residency programs (PGY1 and PGY2), ensuring ASHP accreditation compliance and program excellence.
- Oversee system-wide clinical training and competency development for pharmacists, residents, students, and other pharmacy staff.
- Serve as senior liaison to affiliated colleges of pharmacy; maintain strong partnerships for IPPE/APPE experiential education, ensuring a high-quality learning environment in coordination with program leadership.
- Promote scholarly activity, research, and professional growth opportunities that advance pharmacy practice at UTMB.
- Establish and monitor clinical performance metrics that demonstrate value in patient outcomes, safety, and cost optimization.
- Lead or support quality improvement projects related to medication therapy management and clinical practice.
- Collaborate with the Medication Safety Officer and other leaders to ensure clinical services contribute to safe and effective medication use.
- Work closely with pharmacy operations, nursing, medical staff, informatics, and other stakeholders to integrate pharmacists into care teams and clinical workflows.
- Foster a collaborative environment that supports innovation, practice advancement, and patient-centered care.
Position 2: Director of Pharmacy Infusion Services
The Director of Infusion Pharmacy Services provides enterprise-wide leadership for the medication management of UTMB’s ambulatory infusion services, ensuring safe, efficient, compliant, and patient-centered infusion care. This includes oversight of existing and expanding infusion pharmacies, with responsibility for strategic planning, operational management, revenue optimization, and compliance with regulatory and accreditation standards. The Director partners with clinical, financial, and operational leaders to optimize patient access, expand infusion therapies, and align with payer site-of-care strategies.
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- Lead strategy and operations for ambulatory infusion pharmacy services across UTMB Health.
- Oversee sterile compounding and infusion workflows with adherence to USP <797>/<800> standards.
- Collaborate with the Medication Access team to ensure streamlined prior authorization and financial navigation.
- Supports patient access processes in collaboration with the Medication Access team.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory standards (TJC, CMS, Texas Board of Pharmacy, USP).
- Partner with Finance and Revenue Cycle to optimize reimbursement and maintain 340B compliance.
- Standardize pharmacy infusion practices, policies, and staffing models across UTMB’s ambulatory infusion network.
- Collaborate with medical and nursing leaders in Oncology, Hematology, ID, Neurology, and other specialties to ensure seamless patient care.
- Support the expansion of infusion service lines (oncology, immunology, neurology, gene therapy, etc.) within ambulatory settings.
- Monitor KPIs such as throughput, patient experience, safety events, financial performance.
- Foster staff development, research, and practice advancement in infusion services.
Position 3: Director of Pharmacy - Acute Care Services
Director of Pharmacy oversees, plans, and directs all pharmacy operations in the assigned areas provided by the organization for all assigned UTMB Health Campuses
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in pharmacy plus six (6) years of related pharmacy experience to include three (3) years of related pharmacy management and supervisory experience with progressive responsibility.
- Licensed to practice pharmacy in the state of Texas or eligible for licensure from the Texas State Board of Pharmacy. Must be licensed with the Texas State Board of Pharmacy within 90 days of hire.
Preferred Qualifications:
- PharmD or Advanced degree (M.S., MBA, or MHA).
- PGY2 residency in a clinical specialty or Health-System Pharmacy Administration & Leadership (HSPAL) or equivalent experience.
- Experience with operating a hospital based 340B program.
- Prior leadership of enterprise-level clinical pharmacy programs.
- Experience managing multi-site clinical services and academic partnerships.
- Board certification through the Board of Pharmacy Specialties.
Position 4: Pharmacy Manager
Pharmacy Manager provides direction and coordination of all activities of an assigned area in the Department of Pharmacy.
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- Performs all pharmaceutical care and drug distribution duties required of Clinical Staff Pharmacist and Senior Clinical Staff Pharmacist.
- Supervises and manages the operation of the assigned pharmacy areas, including inventory control, controlled substances record keeping, and maintenance of drug information reference materials.
- Supervises, manages, orients, trains, and evaluates all assigned professional and supportive personnel.
- Addresses quality improvement opportunities while participating in various hospital patient care committees.
- Develops and maintains departmental policies and procedures.
- Ensures completion of monthly unit/clinic audits.
- Prepares personnel work schedules and ensures adequate staffing when absences occur.
- Interviews/hires job applicants for vacant positions.
- Develops proposals for new pharmaceutical care services.
- Prepares work measurement reports and makes budget recommendations to the Director.
- Identifies appropriate internal controls for department; provides mechanisms to monitor and enforce compliance.
Equal Employment Opportunity
UTMB Health strives to provide equal opportunity employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by institutional policy or by federal, state or local laws unless such distinction is required by law. As a VEVRAA Federal Contractor, UTMB Health takes affirmative action to hire and advance women, minorities, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities.
Position 1: Director of Clinical Pharmacy Services
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Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in pharmacy.
- Three (3) years related pharmacy experience.
- Three (3) years of management experience including one (1) year of supervisory experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- PharmD
- Advanced degree (M.S., MBA, or MHA)
- PGY2 residency in a clinical specialty or Health-System Pharmacy Administration & Leadership (HSPAL) or equivalent experience
- Experience with operating a hospital based 340B program
- Prior leadership of enterprise-level clinical pharmacy programs.
- Experience managing multi-site clinical services and academic partnerships.
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Position 2: Director of Pharmacy Infusion Services
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Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in pharmacy.
- Minimum 5 years of progressive pharmacy leadership.
- Experience managing infusion pharmacy operations and sterile compounding.
Preferred Qualifications:
- PharmD
- Advanced degree (M.S., MBA, or MHA)
- PGY2 in Health-System Pharmacy Administration & Leadership (HSPAL) or Oncology Pharmacy.
- Experience with operating a hospital based 340B program
- Experience with payer site-of-care strategies and home infusion program development.
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Position 3: Pharmacy Supervisor
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- Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy or Doctor of Pharmacy degree
- Licensed to practice pharmacy in the state of Texas
- Immunization Certification within six months of hire
- Three years of related experience
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Preferred Qualifications:
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- Five years of related experience
- PGY1 or PGY2 Pharmacy Residency
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Position 4: Pharmacy Manager
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- Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy or Doctor of Pharmacy degree
- Licensed to practice pharmacy in the state of Texas
- Five years of related experience
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Preferred Qualifications:
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- ACPE approved IV (sterile products) certification
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