System Assistant Director Of Pharmacy, Qa​/Medication Safety​/Compliance

LOCATION

JOHN H. STROGER, JR. HOSPITAL OF COOK COUNTY

PHARMACY ADMINISTRATION

8:00 AM - 4:00 PM (Flexible)

This position is exempt from Career Service under the CCH Personnel Rules.

The System Assistant Director of Pharmacy oversees the Cook County Health (CCH) Pharmacy quality improvement program, regulatory compliance, and staff development, under director of the Senior Director of Pharmacy. This position also serves as the Medication Safety Office for the System Pharmacies and as such is responsible for coordination the adverse drug reaction reporting program and assuming a leadership role in the medication error reporting program.

This position requires collaboration with health care providers with medication-related responsibilities at each of the System facilities, in order to measure and improve the safety of the System's medication systems.

• Review applicable Collective Bargaining Agreements and consult with Labor Relations to generate management proposals.
• Participate in collective bargaining negotiations, caucus discussions and working meetings.

• Document, recommend and effectuate discipline at all levels.
• Work closely with labor relations and/or labor counsel to effectuate and enforce applicable Collective Bargaining Agreements.
• Initiate, authorize and complete disciplinary action pursuant to CCH system rules, policies, procedures and provision of applicable collective bargaining agreements.

• Direct and effectuate CCH management policies and practices.
• Access and proficiently navigate CCH records system to obtain and review information necessary to execute provisions of applicable collective bargaining agreements.

• Contribute to the management of CCH staff and CCH’ systemic development and success.
• Discuss and develop CCH system policy and procedure.

• Consistently use independent judgment to identify operational staffing issues and needs and perform the

following functions as necessary; hire, transfer, suspend, layoff, recall, promote, discharge, assign, direct or discipline employees pursuant to applicable Collective Bargaining Agreements.

• Work with Labor Relations to discern past practice when necessary.

• Oversees the development/assessment of a pharmacy quality program that monitors and ensures the integrity

and safety of the services provided by CCH pharmacies.

• Assimilates the mission statement, goals and objectives of CCH into the departmental quality program.
• Assess departmental compliance with quality indicators through review of audits performed on these

indicators.

• Alerts pharmacy management to significant problems identified during audits.
• Recommends improvement strategies to pharmacy management regarding issues identified in audits and

provides assistance for action plan implementation.

• Reviews, revises, adds, and deletes audits or indicators as needed.
• Provides direction for the safety of CCH's medication systems.
• Coordinates a medication system monitoring program for the ordering, distribution, administration, and

monitoring of medication used. This monitoring system to include indicator development auditing evaluation

and feedback process improvement recommendations and staff education initiatives.

• Directs involvement in ensuring the ongoing safety of the computerized provider order entry system for

electronic ordering of patient medications.

• Reviews medication error/adverse drug event literature, including the Institute of Safe Medication Practice's

Medication Safety Alerts, to proactively address potential issues in the medical center.

• Reviews Medication Occurrence reports and Adverse Drug Reaction Reports to identify potential system

improvements and educational needs.

• Identifies potential issues that may warrant root cause analysis (RCA) or failure mode and effects analysis

(FMEA) and bring to the attention of the Drug and Formulary Committee (D&F) for authorization.

• Performs a Root Cause analysis at the direction of the D&F Committee or a FMEA as recommended.
• Oversees the development of new or revision of existing medication - related policy and procedures.
• Provides medication safety information for inclusion in newsletters and other educational efforts for staff

education.

• Evaluates and procure commercially available medication and patient safety related educational materials

including video and audio tapes, computer-assisted instructional…