Job Description
The Director of pharmacy is responsible for providing overall and day to day administrative and operation oversight. The Director is responsible for the operational compliance with federal and state rules and regulations surrounding pharmacy practice.
Qualifications
Graduate from an accredited school of Pharmacy (ACPE)
Advanced degree, Graduate of a PGY1 residency preferred
Board certification in Oncology or Sterile Compounding preferred
Active NY Registered Pharmacist License in good standing.
Experience Requirements
4+ years pharmacy and/or clinical experience, with strong preference for experience in infusion pharmacy management.
Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Excellent organizational skills and the ability to prioritize multiple tasks, projects, and assignments.
Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy
Proven leadership skills with the ability to manage and mentor a pharmacy team
Licensing and Certification Requirements
Name: NY Registered Pharmacist License Issuing Agency:
Compensation Statement
The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides a salary range to comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for this role is $153,723.00 - $230,584.00 Annually. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.
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Responsibilities
The Director of Pharmacy is responsible for overseeing the daily operations of the infusion pharmacies.
The Director of Pharmacy is responsible for the proper safeguarding of controlled substances and for ensuring that the processes and systems are in place to detect and prevent diversion.
The Director of Pharmacy ensures operational compliance with federal and state rules and regulations surrounding pharmacy practice and tactical implementation of pharmacy initiatives and maintain the highest quality of patient care.
The Director oversees the pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and other support staff who provide patient care or supportive services for respective areas of oversight.
Partners with site nursing, medical, and administration leaders to optimize patient care through pharmacy infusion services and ensures appropriate drug storage, preparation, and patient monitoring to meet the needs of patients.
Ensures all protocols and procedures are in compliance with USP 797 and USP 800 Compounding Standards.
Ensures compliance and oversees all regulatory inspections; makes appropriate modifications as required with changes in regulations. Develops a plan of action to citations when necessary.
Actively participates, supports, and leads system initiatives that are focused on quality, medication safety, medication use and formulary related activities.
Assists with meeting financial and budgetary goals; and with policy and procedure development, implementation, review and revision.
Participates in preparing and monitoring operating and capital and expense budgets.
Sets goals and provides strategic direction for the pharmacy infusion services.
Provides oversight to the development and implementation of efficient workflows within the pharmacy
About Us
Strength Through Diversity
The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:
Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.
At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization. We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients. We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally.
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“About the Mount Sinai Health System:
Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.
The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.”
EOE Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans
Compensation Statement
Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides a salary range to comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $153723 - $230584 Annually. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.
