Summary
Location
City of Yonkers
Salary
$205k - $215k
Type
full-time
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About this role
TITLE: Senior Director, Pharmacy Services
DEPARTMENT: Pharmacy Services
REPORTS TO: Chief Operating Officer (COO)
JOB SUMMARY
The Senior Pharmacy Director is responsible for the overall operations, direction, leadership, and management of Saint Joseph's Medical Center and Saint Vincent's Medical Center Department of Pharmacy. The Senior Director of Pharmacy works collaboratively with institution leadership to implement and maintain pharmacy progress, best practices, and financial operations. The Senior Director of Pharmacy directs pharmacy personnel, ensures quality assurance, maintains distribution and technology systems, and provides fiscal oversight of Pharmacy cost center budgets and related forecasting of financial pharmacy initiatives.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBITITIES
- Collaborating with healthcare executives to foster and build relationships aimed to align interdisciplinary services with initiatives such as quality metrics and financial performance.
- Provides direction and coordinates day-to-day operations.
- Advancing patient care services through the promotion of pharmacy best practices by the creation and adoption of emerging technologies and innovative services.
- Oversees and adjusts all workflow systems processes, as needed, to meet operational requirements.
- Monitors, analyzes and reports on established performance metrics on a regular basis.
- Participates in staff meetings, planning meetings and other meetings as needed.
- Actively participates as a member of the Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee and other various committees that impact medication management.
- Develops and implements management reporting systems for statistical and quality control documentation (metrics and dashboard oversight).
- Oversees the work of all pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and clerks including recruiting, hiring, disciplinary action, scheduling, team building, performance evaluation, etc.
- Assures that all pharmacy staff are appropriately trained to perform necessary functions.
- Ensures compliance with all licensure and governing body requirements including, but not limited to: Board of Pharmacy, Office of Pharmacy Affairs (340B Program), The Joint Commission (TJC).
- Maintains responsibility for assuring that the Department of Pharmacy is operating in accordance with the laws and regulations set forth by accrediting organizations and regulatory agencies.
- Responsible for managing the operational budget of the Pharmacy departments.
- Develops policies and procedures as they relate to medication management.
- Maintains responsibility for assuring that the Department of Pharmacy is adequately serving the patients and clinical staff of the institution.
- Maintains clinical pharmacy competencies commensurate to the Director of Pharmacy position ensuring the ability to train, education, and evaluate pharmacy staff for optimal oversight of the medical center's pharmacy program.
- Develops and implements innovative systems and procedures designed to increase the efficiency, effectiveness and scope of pharmacy services.
- Maintains responsibility for the financial management of the Department of Pharmacy hospital formulary.
- Develops and implements training for staff to keep them abreast of advances in pharmacy technology and pharmacology.
- Maintains control over the requisitioning and dispensing of all drugs and pharmaceutical supplies.
- Attends conferences, seminars, and meetings as required.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
- NYS Registered Pharmacist
- Graduation from an accredited College of Pharmacy
- Eight (8) years of satisfactory, full-time experience as a Licensed Practicing Pharmacist, of which at least four (4) years shall have been in an administrative, managerial and supervisory capacity in a Hospital Pharmacy
- Ability to formulate, develop and implement pharmacy service programs and to direct and supervise pharmacy service personnel and staff activities
- Ability to work effectively with administrative staff, medical and nursing personnel
- Possession of a Master's degree in Hospital Administration; Business Administration; or Doctor of Pharmacy
PHYSICAL AND MENTAL FACTORS
Physical: Computer accessibility. Walking throughout Hospital areas and clinics, moving medications
Mental: Must be able to effectively communicate with management and staff
Salary Range: $205K-$215K
Saint Joseph's Medical Center is an equal opportunity employer.
Other facts
About St. Vincent's Health Partners
Since 1888, Saint Joseph’s Medical Center has served Yonkers and the surrounding communities of lower Westchester and northern Bronx with patient-centered, quality-focused inpatient and outpatient care, including specialized programs such as orthopedics, cardiology, family medicine and geriatrics; advanced emergency treatment, state-of- the art diagnostic imaging and ambulatory surgery; inpatient and outpatient behavioral health services; and a network of primary care services serving Westchester, the Bronx and northern Manhattan.
Affiliated with Saint Joseph's Medical Center, Saint Joseph's Medical Practice, PC is a multi-specialty physician medical practice in New York, with offices in Yonkers, the Bronx, Riverdale and Manhattan. Our team includes experts in cardiology, internal medicine, family medicine, primary care, gynecology and gastroenterology at 9 convenient office locations.
St. Vincent’s Hospital Westchester offers inpatient and outpatient mental health and addiction treatment services at its campus in Harrison and at off-site locations in White Plains, Tuckahoe and Port Chester. As a division of Saint Joseph’s Medical Center, St. Vincent’s also provides mobile crisis services for Westchester County, manages residential services for more than 1,300 individuals in Westchester County and New York City and operates three opioid treatment centers in New York City.
What you'll do
- The Senior Director of Pharmacy is responsible for the overall operations and management of the Pharmacy Department, ensuring quality assurance and fiscal oversight. They collaborate with healthcare executives to implement best practices and advance patient care services.
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