Director of Pharmacy

Title: Director of Pharmacy

Job Type: Full Time

Your experience matters!

At Central Texas Rehabilitation Hospital, we are driven by a profound commitment to prioritize your well-being so you can provide exceptional care to others. Here, you're not just valued as an employee, but as a person.

Central Texas Rehabilitation Hospital is a 50-bed inpatient acute rehabilitation facility located at 700 W 45th Street in Austin, Texas. It's designed to help individuals recover from serious injuries or illnesses that have significantly impacted their ability to function independently.

Here's what makes it stand out:

• Specialized Rehabilitation Programs: Tailored care for patients recovering from stroke, brain injury, spinal cord injury, amputation, orthopedic trauma, and other neurological or complex conditions.
• Intensive Therapy Model: Patients typically receive at least three hours of physical, occupational, and/or speech therapy per day, five days a week, under the supervision of a rehabilitation physician.
• State-of-the-Art Facility: Offers modern therapy equipment, private rooms, and a dedicated team focused on maximizing recovery and quality of life.
• 24/7 Medical Support: Around-the-clock nursing and physician oversight ensure continuous care and safety throughout the rehabilitation process.

As a Director of Pharmacy joining our team, you're embracing a vital mission dedicated to making communities healthier. Join us on this meaningful journey where your skills, compassion, and dedication will make a remarkable difference in the lives of those we serve.

How you'll contribute

Leads the hospital pharmacy department, overseeing daily operations, staffing, and clinical and regulatory performance. Establishes goals, policies, and procedures; ensures safe, effective, and compliant medication-use processes; partners with medical and nursing leadership on evidence-based formularies, guidelines, and medication safety; and drives continuous quality and performance improvement.

Essential Functions

• Provide day-to-day operational leadership for the pharmacy, ensuring safe, timely, and compliant services.
• Develop, implement, and maintain departmental goals, objectives, policies, procedures, and performance standards.
• Measure, assess, and improve organizational performance using data, audits, and quality metrics.
• Ensure compliance with Joint Commission (JC), CMS/HCFA, CARF, and state regulations; monitor and close regulatory gaps.
• Manage pharmacy team (hiring, onboarding, training, scheduling); coach, mentor, and resolve performance issues.
• Coordinate and complete competency assessments and performance reviews within required timeframes.
• Collaborate with physicians and clinicians to implement evidence-based guidelines, protocols, and formulary management for safe, cost-effective drug therapy.
• Serve as a drug information resource for nurses, physicians, and pharmacists; disseminate current literature and guidance.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Additional Information

Oversees medication safety initiatives, adverse drug event review, and corrective action plans. Manages inventory, purchasing, automation/ADC systems, controlled substance accountability, and cost stewardship. Partners with quality, risk, and infection prevention on stewardship and regulatory readiness. Prepares reports and communicates outcomes to hospital leadership and committees.

What we offer

Fundamental to providing great care is supporting and rewarding our team. In addition to your base compensation, this position also offers:

• Comprehensive Benefits: Multiple levels of medical, dental and vision coverage - tailored benefit options for part-time and PRN employees, and more.

• Financial Protection & PTO: Life, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity insurance, short- and long-term disability, paid family leave and paid time off.

• Financial & Career Growth: Higher education and certification tuition assistance, loan assistance and 401(k) retirement package and company match.

• Employee Well-being: Mental, physical, and financial wellness programs (free gym memberships, virtual care appointments, mental health services and discount programs).

• Professional Development: Ongoing learning and career advancement opportunities.

Qualifications and requirements:

Education: BS in Pharmacy required; PharmD and/or MBA/MS (or equivalent education/experience) preferred.

Licensure: Current state pharmacist license required.

Experience: Minimum five (5) years of hospital pharmacy experience desirable; demonstrated leadership and/or program management experience.

Competencies: Regulatory compliance (JC, CMS/HCFA, CARF, state), performance improvement, guideline/protocol development, data analysis, team leadership, effective communication, and collaboration across disciplines.

About us
Central Texas Rehabilitation Hospital is located in Austin, TX, and is part of Lifepoint Health, a diversified healthcare delivery network committed to making communities healthier® with acute care, rehabilitation, and behavioral health facilities from coast to coast. From your first day to your next career milestone-your experience matters.

EEOC Statement

"Central Texas Rehabilitation Hospital is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Central Texas Rehabilitation Hospital is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity for all applicants and employees and complies with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination and harassment in employment."

Lifepoint Health is a leader in community-based care and driven by a mission of Making Communities Healthier. Our diversified healthcare delivery network spans 29 states and includes 63 community hospital campuses, 32 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, and more than 170 additional sites of care across the healthcare continuum, such as acute rehabilitation units, outpatient centers and post-acute care facilities. We believe that success is achieved through talented people. We want to create places where employees want to work, with opportunities to pursue meaningful and satisfying careers that truly make a difference in communities across the country.