Director of Medication Safety and Regulatory Compliance - UHealth

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Current Employees: If you are a current Staff, Faculty or Temporary employee at the University of Miami, please click here to log in to Workday to use the internal application process. To learn how to apply for a faculty or staff position, please review this tip sheet . CORE JOB SUMMARY The Director, Pharmacy Regulatory Compliance assumes responsibility for the UHealth System's medication safety and regulatory compliance program. This position reports to the Chief Pharmacy Officer with quality, regulatory compliance, safety outcomes, and performance improvement initiatives that aligns with the goals of the system. CORE JOB FUNCTIONS 1. Leads and oversees enterprise medication safety programs by assessing safety processes, identifying risks, developing improvement strategies, and implementing initiatives that enhances staff and patient safety across the organization. 2. Develops, reviews, and maintains pharmacy policies, procedures, safety records, competency tools, orientation materials, and patient education resources to supports medication safety, regulatory compliance, and best practices. 3. Designs, coordinates, and delivers medication safety and regulatory education programs for pharmacy staff, clinicians, leaders, and hospital personnel; serves as a subject matter expert and mentor on safety initiatives, teaching strategies, and clinical implementation. 4. Monitors medication safety activities, performance improvement outcomes, and quality metrics; analyzes data trends and develops targeted interventions and educational programs to drives continuous improvement. 5. Collaborates with pharmacy leadership, clinical teams, and hospital departments to ensures compliance with medication management standards, accreditation requirements, licensure regulations, and applicable state and federal laws. 6. Conducts gap analyses, tracers, risk assessments, and audits to identifies compliance issues, strengthens internal controls, and supports audit readiness and regulatory preparedness. 7. Interprets and communicates evolving regulatory and medication management practice standards to leadership, managers, and staff to ensures organization-wide awareness and adherence. 8. Leads and coordinates the controlled substance surveillance program, ensuring accountability, diversion prevention, and compliance through collaboration with Nursing, Anesthesia, Risk Management, Compliance, Human Resources, and other key stakeholders. 9. Supports patient-centered care by ensuring medication safety practices and education responds to the unique needs of diverse patient populations and care settings. 10. Ensures internal control oversight and compliance with laws and regulations, safeguarding of assets, compliance with University policies and procedures, reliability of internal and external reporting, and efficiency and effectiveness of operations. Creates an effective control environment, conducts risk assessment, implements and monitors controls. This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties or responsibilities as necessary. CORE QUALIFICATIONS Education: Bachelor’s degree in relevant field required Experience: Minimum 7 years of relevant experience required Certification and Licensing: Valid State of Florida Registered Pharmacist license required Refer to department description for applicable certification requirements Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: Strategic Alignment: Skilled in aligning departmental goals with enterprise-wide strategy and develops comprehensive strategic plans. Financial Management: Ensures fiscal responsibility, and optimization of financial performance. Resource Management: Ability to allocate resources and drive innovation and growth. Adaptability: Proven ability to adjust to changes and leads/inspires transformational change. Team Leadership: Ability to build and lead high-performing teams, manage complex projects, and ensure successful project delivery. Technology & Analytics: Understanding of technology, data analytics, and performance measurement to drive strategic decisions and identify opportunities. Communication: Ability to influence others, articulate strategic vision, and ensure clear and persuasive communication. This is a core job profile description and is not reflective of all duties that may be assigned to a specific position in each individual department. The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and primary responsibilities of this core job profile. Specific duties and tasks may vary based upon departmental needs. Other duties may be assigned to the above consistent with the knowledge, skills, and abilities required for the job. The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, tuition remission and more. UHealth-University of Miami Health System, South Florida's only university-based health system, provides leading-edge patient care powered by the ground breaking research and medical education at the Miller School of Medicine. As an academic medical center, we are proud to serve South Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean. Our physicians represent more than 100 specialties and sub-specialties, and have more than one million patient encounters each year. Our tradition of excellence has earned worldwide recognition for outstanding teaching, research and patient care. We're the challenge you've been looking for. The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination based on certain categories protected by Federal law. Job Status: Full time Employee Type: Staff