Assistant Director-Pharmacy Services

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NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue is America’s oldest public hospital, established in 1736. Affiliated with the NYU School of Medicine, the 844-bed hospital is a major referral center for highly complex cases, with its 6,000 employees including highly skilled, interdisciplinary clinical staff. It sees more than 110,000 emergency room visits and 700,000 outpatient visits annually. Bellevue is an academic medical institution of international renown.

We have served as an incubator for major innovations in public health, medical science, and medical education. Bellevue is a Level I Trauma Center delivering around-the-clock care in adult, pediatric, psychiatric and pediatric psychiatric emergencies as well as in the nationally-designated categories of cardiology, neurology, toxicology, and neonatology. In addition to providing comprehensive inpatient and outpatient state-of-the-art care Bellevue is a city-wide medical specialty referral source.

Bellevue’s clinical centers of excellence include:
Emergency Medicine and Trauma Care;
Cardiovascular Services;
Designated Regional Perinatal Center and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (ICU);
Comprehensive Children’s Psychiatric Emergency Program; and Cancer Services.

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.

Purpose of Position

Under the direction of the Director of Pharmacy Services, assists in formulating, planning, directing, administering, coordinating and evaluating Pharmacy services and programs in a health care setting. Promotes effective functioning and operations of inpatient, outpatient and satellite pharmacies in coordination with other professional and administrative disciplines. Assists the Director of Pharmacy Services in creating an environment that promotes growth, leading pharmacy staff to perform within regulatory guidelines, and ensuring compliance with company policies and procedures.

Assumes full responsibility and authority in Director’s absence.

• Directs pharmaceutical personnel with respect to compounding and dispensing of drugs, in accordance with prescribed policies and standards and legal requirements, requisitioning and procurement of drugs and pharmaceutical supplies, inventory control and maintenance, storage of supplies and their issuance and maintenance of such controls and standards, orderliness and cleanliness of Pharmacy area, and inspection programs.
• Participates with the health care setting in formulation and development of policies regarding the evaluation, selection, procurement, storage, distribution, use, and all other matters relating to drugs in the hospital, with consideration being given to the following:
  Drug Formulary;
  Evaluations or clinical data on new drugs;
  Investigational drug protocols; and Drugs to be stocked and other related services.
• Assists in developing, recommending and implementing pharmaceutical service programs consistent with the medication needs of the patients, including control and accountability of drug products throughout the health care setting.
• Collaborates in the development, makes recommendations and implements programs of records management, whereby records are correlated with other health care setting records, in accordance with the health care setting’s procedures and practices, such as:
  Transactions of the Pharmacy;
  Record systems and bookkeeping, in accordance with accounting department standards; and Controls over requisitioning and dispensing of drugs and pharmaceutical supplies.
• Assists in formulating, developing, implementing and…