WHO WE ARE

London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) is a world-class academic health sciences centre located in the southwestern Ontario city of London. Just two hours from Toronto and two hours from Detroit, London features a beautiful and walkable downtown core located on the Thames River, a vibrant culinary scene and scores of activities that highlight local arts, culture and music. As one of Canada’s largest acute-care teaching hospitals, LHSC delivers world-class care and experiences, built on our commitment to excellence in research, innovation, and learning. In partnership with our communities, we design and advance healthcare to support the wellness of the populations we serve. LHSC delivers both local and regional services, including the Children’s Hospital, within a large geographic area. LHSC is known for its great people and great care, with a workforce of close to 15,000, dedicated to delivering the highest quality patient care while partnering with communities to transform health, one life at a time.
LHSC is a leader in progressive hospital pharmacy practice and has a strong history of innovation to the profession. Each member of the pharmacy team supports the goal of improving the quality of life for all patients. Through innovation and collaboration, the pharmacy team is dedicated to providing pharmaceutical care and supportive practices with an emphasis on excellence in service, training, education and research.

Clinical pharmacists provide direct patient care throughout the institution. These practitioners are active, integral members of interdisciplinary teams providing services including:

• Medication history documentation and assistance with medication reconciliation drug selection
• Pharmacokinetic assessment and drug dosing
• Drug information
• Patient medication counseling and education
• Other patient-focused services to optimize drug therapy outcomes

The Department of Pharmacy provides extensive services including drug and disease state information, drug preparation and distribution, and dosage monitoring services for all patients.
Annually, pharmacy processes over 2 million medication orders; dispenses over 4.9 million unit doses; 18,000 TPN bags, 15,000 inpatient chemotherapy admixtures and 600,000 parenteral admixtures.

WHAT SKILLS ARE NEEDED

• Planning and executing action plans that deliver results and motivate individuals for greater performance excellence
• Strong business acumen
• Values-based leadership and a proven track record for developing and sustaining healthy work environments and effective teams while leading in a performance-driven culture
• Lead and drive system transformation
• Develop self and others through teaching, coaching, mentoring and formal development processes
• Strong analytical skills that contribute to effective problem solving and decision-making

IMMUNIZATION REQUIREMENTS:

Before beginning employment at LHSC, all new hires must provide documentation related to LHSC’s Health Review Requirements. For more information and a detailed list of requirements, please visit Health Review Requirements | LHSC.
Your interest in this opportunity is appreciated. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. Successful candidates, as a condition of job offer, would be required to provide a satisfactory police information check (original document) completed in the last 6 months

The Manager, Pharmacy - Inventory & Technology has responsibility for Pharmacy inventory management and technology and equipment system projects, workflows, and data analytics. Working closely with the Inventory Specialist and Inventory Team, the Manager will develop and implement new processes to ensure optimal and cost-effective inventory management across all areas of the Pharmacy department. Working closely with the Technical Pharmacy Specialists at each site, the Manager will collaborate with team members within Pharmacy and on clinical units to provide oversight, and to optimize processes and support the planning and implementation of new technology and/or equipment.
Reporting to the Director, Pharmacy, the Manager, Pharmacy - Inventory & Technology directs, controls and evaluates the delivery of department services related to inventory management and technology. They are responsible for translating decisions of the program leadership into execution, by utilizing relationship management and working with internal and external stakeholders to achieve the necessary outcomes. The Manager ensures their team and department operations are aligned with our mission, vision and values, while working together to successfully achieve our strategic objectives.
This role is accountable for day-to-day department activities, including the management of human and material resources, day-to-day staffing and scheduling, development and support of a healthy workplace, risk and utilization measurements, and facilitation of improvement initiatives and change management, while operating within approved operational budgets and financial guidelines and controls. A major focus of the role is fostering effective working relationships and networks within the team/unit and with other teams across the organization. In addition, this role will be a key leader in an upcoming expansion of dispensing equipment and technology at LHSC.
NOTE: this role is required to be on-call, evenings, nights and weekends on a rotational basis, for approximately 1 week every 7 weeks.