Director of Pharmacy

Overview

Director of Pharmacy - Full Time

Join our world-class team of driven, passionate healthcare professionals who are focused on service excellence and providing top quality care!

Advanced Care Hospital of Montana in Billings, Montana is a freestanding critical care and inpatient rehabilitation hospital providing advanced interdisciplinary care to patients with critical, complex, and recovery-focused medical needs. As the region’s leading specialty hospital, we care for individuals who have survived serious illness, trauma, or surgery but require extended recovery time and a higher level of medical attention than typically provided in a traditional hospital setting. Our dual mission includes both long-term acute care and comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation. We offer specialized services such as ventilator weaning and respiratory therapy, cardiac monitoring and recovery, complex wound and infection treatment, and intensive rehabilitation for patients regaining strength, mobility, and independence after prolonged ICU stays. Our rehabilitation program includes Physical Therapy (PT), Occupational Therapy (OT), and Speech‑Language Pathology (SLP), tailored to each patient’s unique goals for recovery. With all private rooms and a highly skilled team—including physicians, ICU/critical care nurses and respiratory therapists—we deliver individualized, compassionate care that supports both medical stability and functional progress. Advanced Care Hospital of Montana is Joint Commission accredited and nationally recognized for quality care. We proudly serve patients and families from across Montana, Wyoming, and South Dakota, offering a healing environment where progress is measured not just in milestones—but in moments of regained independence.

Billings, Montana - Montana’s largest city, Billings is a gateway to Yellowstone and the Beartooth Mountains. With low unemployment, a growing downtown, and stunning natural beauty, Billings offers a high quality of life and wide‑open opportunity. Billings is growing into a vibrant community with a diverse mix of urban and rural activities and amenities to fit your lifestyle. Although Billings is the largest city in the state, it still has a smaller‑town feel, offering quick commutes, good schools, friendly neighbors, and so much more. Billings has what you want, whether you want to be, grow, or play in the great state of Montana.

We are seeking a Director of Pharmacy to join our team of passionate patient caregivers!

As a participating hospital of Ernest Health, we offer robust recognition, wellness, and retention programs. These programs focus to enhance the employees’ work experience, recognize, and celebrate achievements. We also encourage employees to share their work experience through “My Ernest Journey” and through our Engagement Survey, where our approach is “You Spoke, We Listened”. These platforms provide additional avenues for employees to give feedback about their work experience and share what is important to them.

Our hospital offers comprehensive benefits, designed to support your health and financial well‑being.

Benefits:

• PPO and High Deductible Medical Plan options
• Flexible Spending and Health Savings Account options available
• Dental and Vision coverage
• 401K with employer matching
• Life insurance
• Short‑and‑long term disability

Wellness & Work Life Balance:

• Employee Assistance Program
• Wellness Program with quarterly wellness challenges with participation incentives
• Earned Time Off - start accruing vacation time on start date

Professional Growth:

• Continuing education opportunities and reimbursement

Qualifications

Required Skills:

• Graduate of an accredited School of Pharmacy with a B.S. or Pharm.D. Degree required.
• Current, valid, and active license as a Registered Pharmacist in the state of employment required.
• Two years’ related experience required.
• Supervisory experience preferred.

Additional Qualifications/Skills:

• Knowledge of and adherence to national pharmacist regulations and standards of practice
• Knowledge of clinical operations and procedures.
• Demonstrates general computer skills including: data entry, word processing, email, and record management.
• Demonstrates an understanding of treatment costs and financial support as they relate to quality and efficiency.
• Demonstrates and utilizes the appropriate leadership skills in delegating, organizing, and educating coworkers and staff.
• Effective organizational and time management skills.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to maintain proper levels of confidentiality.
• Ability to work closely and professionally with others.
• Ability to maintain quality, safety, and infection control standards.
• Ability to interpret department policies and procedures to personnel, patients/family members, etc. as necessary.
• Ability to utilize concepts of age/developmental stages in interactions with patients and families

Responsibilities

The Director of Pharmacy is the primary individual responsible for the full operation and management of the Pharmacy Department. While occasional assistance with pharmacist duties may occur, the Director of Pharmacy is expected to spend the large majority of his or her time managing and directing the operations of the Pharmacy Department and supervising the work of personnel in the Pharmacy Department. In the course of managing and directing the operations of the Pharmacy Department, the Director of Pharmacy is expected to demonstrate compliance with the hospital’s mission and “Guiding Principles”.

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