Assistant Director Pharmacy Services, Corporate Pharmacy

About NYC Health + Hospitals:

Empower Every New Yorker — Without Exception — to Live the Healthiest Life Possible

NYC Health + Hospitals is the largest public health care system in the United States. We provide essential outpatient, inpatient and home-based services to more than one million New Yorkers every year across the city’s five boroughs. Our large health system consists of ambulatory centers, acute care centers, post-acute care/long-term care, rehabilitation programs, Home Care, and Correctional Health Services. Our diverse workforce is uniquely focused on empowering New Yorkers, without exception, to live the healthiest life possible.

At NYC Health + Hospitals, our mission is to deliver high quality care health services, without exception. Every employee takes a person-centered approach that exemplifies the ICARE values (Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence) through empathic communication and partnerships between all persons.

Job Description:

The Assistant Director of Clinical Pharmacy Services under the direction of the Senior Director, Clinical Pharmacy Services, supports the objective of delivering safe, cost effective and optimal medication therapy. They are responsible for overseeing and running, on a system level, clinical based pharmacy meetings such as but not limited to, Enterprise Pharmacy and Therapeutics, Medication Safety, Antimicrobial Stewardship, and the Pharmacy Clinical Committee. They will collaborate with central, site, nursing and medical leadership on medication formulary development, adherence, and support formulary standardization efforts, across inpatient and outpatient areas. The Assistant Director of Clinical Pharmacy Services will attend, on a regular basis, local site P&T meetings in order to help ensure consistency and observance to corporate P&T decisions. They will support coordination of all clinical pharmacy services and programs to help obtain desirable patient outcomes through the use of safe, appropriate, and cost-effective medication therapies. They assist in overseeing clinical pharmacy operations across the system for both Ambulatory and Acute Care Clinical Pharmacy Services, promoting standardization and advancing clinical pharmacy practices.

The Assistant Director of Clinical Pharmacy Services will maintain expert working knowledge of The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG), Department of Public Health (DPH), American Society of Health system Pharmacists (ASHP), Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) and Centers for Medicare/Medicaid Services (CMS) medication-related and pharmacy practice standards and metrics and relates them to current departmental and organizational policies and procedures.

SUMMARY OF DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Manages activities related to the Enterprise Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee and Subcommittees

a. Support in planning and execution of meeting agendas and related material

b. Coordinates with presenters to ensure proper material is received and appropriate review is performed

i. Works with Clinical Pharmacy Council to review all material in an unbiased manner to develop a formulary monograph for P&T or Subcommittee presentation

ii. Works with IT and Epic team to facilitate the proper Epic build

c. Works with procurement in assisting with all cost analysis for formulary considerations

d. Ensures that committee members receive all pertinent material prior to the meeting

e. Performs all required follow-up such as;

i. Working with IT to ensure proper Epic build of any new formulary addition

ii. Revisits any closes any open-ended items

iii. Ensures any recommendations from the committee are followed through

f. Works on any education regarding formulary additions and standardization efforts to help ensure proper use

2. Maintaining and reviewing the enterprise system formulary across inpatient and outpatient areas to help ensure the most cost-effective therapies are available.

3. Reviews, with site pharmacy directors, local formularies to ensure adherence to Enterprise formulary.

4. Prepare content for and supports leadership of the Clinical Pharmacy Committee in order to:

a. Identify and implement quality improvement programs and continuous quality assurance initiatives to advance the medication use systems and promote optimal patient outcomes.

b. Identify best practices and help ensure the health system maintains the highest level of patient care

c. Identify and execute processes to complete medication related standardization efforts across the Enterprise

5. Facilitates leadership of the Medication Safety Council in order to:

a. Ensure the safe usage of medication throughout the health system

b. Perform root cause analysis (RCAs) when an event occurs to prevent such occurrences in the future

c. Perform analysis of current process to help reduce the chances of errors

d. Identify best practices and implement such practices

6. Works with IT to ensure that medication builds within Epic are correct and appropriate

7. Participates in the department’s educational affiliations with external academic institutions. Identifies targets for and participates in in-service education for medical, nursing, pharmacy, and support staff aimed at correcting problems in drug utilization

8. Contributes to the effective operation of the department by enforcing and complying with institutional and departmental policies and procedures

9. Serves as the clinical liaison to assist in the management of drug expense to budget by monitoring drug utilization, identifying opportunities for improvement and initiating cost avoidance programs to achieve planned savings and/or cost avoidance

10. Works with pharmacy directors, clinical coordinators, and pharmacists at each facility in the delivery of pharmaceutical care and appropriate use of clinical workflow software

11. Complies with all aspects of the health system’s patient and customer relations programs. Demonstrates the highest level of professionalism in all activities, as measured by a concern for patient care, the ability to listen and cooperate, demonstrating flexibility under stress, the ability to help others within and across departments and teams, and the ability to set and achieve goals

12. Performs related duties, as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

1. Valid license and current registration to practice as a Pharmacist issued by the New York State Department of Education (NYSED); and

2. Four (4) years of satisfactory full-time experience as a licensed practicing Pharmacist, of which at least two (2) years shall have been in an administrative, managerial or supervisory capacity in a Pharmacy in a hospital, health or medical facility.

Department Preferences

Education/License:

• Graduate of an accredited College of Pharmacy

• Advanced degree (PharmD) in Pharmacy

• Completion of a PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency Program

• Completion of a PGY2 Pharmacy Practice Residency Program

• NYS Pharmacist Licensure eligible

Experience:

• Minimum of 2 years clinical pharmacy experience - required

• Minimum of 2 years formulary management -required

• Demonstrable experience with project management and oversight - required

• Experience in an academic healthcare hospital setting - preferred

Education:

• Graduate of an accredited College of Pharmacy

• Advanced degree (PharmD) in Pharmacy

• Completion of a PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency Program

• Completion of a PGY2 Pharmacy Practice Residency Program

Knowledgeable in:

• Formulary management

• Clinical pharmacy program development

• Pharmacy metrics

• Pharmacy regulatory and compliance requirements related to hospital pharmacy practice

• Pharmacy automation technologies

• Project management

Preferred skills:

• Six Sigma

• Other validated quality improvement certification

• Project management

NYC Health and Hospitals offers a competitive benefits package that includes:

Comprehensive Health Benefits for employees hired to work 20+ hrs. per week

Retirement Savings and Pension Plans

Loan Forgiveness Programs for eligible employees

Paid Holidays and Vacation in accordance with employees' Collectively bargained contracts

College tuition discounts and professional development opportunities

Multiple employee discounts programs