Pharmacy Quality & Safety Coordinator

Holy Name Medical Center; Teaneck Township (NJ); On-site; USD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading medical center in New Jersey seeks a Coordinator of Pharmacy Quality & Safety to oversee pharmacy compliance and safety initiatives. This role demands a PharmD degree, substantial hospital pharmacy experience, and a commitment to educating staff. The successful candidate will play a key role in enhancing medication safety and quality standards across the organization.

Qualifications

• Doctorate of Pharmacy (PharmD) required.
• Minimum 3 years' hospital pharmacy experience required.
• Pharmacy Quality & Safety experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Serve as Pharmacist-in-Charge, ensuring compliance with NJ State Board of Pharmacy.
• Develop quality assurance programs for the pharmacy department.
• Coordinate training for pharmacy staff and healthcare professionals.

Skills

Self-Motivation

Project Management

Strong communication

Education

Doctorate of Pharmacy (PharmD)

Completion of an ASHP-accredited PGY-1 Residency

Job description

Welcome to Holy Name, a medical center where innovation is not just a goal — it's a commitment. Here, medical excellence thrives, allowing hope to reign supreme and leaving no room for fear. At our hospital, every patient is cared for with undivided attention — because healing every soul is our sole focus.

Holy Name is New Jersey's only independent Catholic health system, comprising a 361-bed acute care hospital, a renowned cancer center, a state-of-the-art fitness center, a residential hospice, a prestigious nursing school, and an extensive physician network. Healing at Holy Name goes beyond medicine and technology – it is infused with faith, conviction, compassion, and a commitment to educating the next generation of healthcare professionals through graduate medical education, a Pharmacy Residency Program, and our Institute for Simulation Learning. Our mission to provide care for the body, mind, and soul spans education, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, and overall wellness. This is at the core of who we are and what we do, and we've done it this way across generations, every single day, for nearly 100 years. Every innovation, medical breakthrough, and groundbreaking treatment is powered by some of the best minds in medicine, ensuring nothing is left on the table or the road to recovery.

A Brief Overview:
The Coordinator of Pharmacy Quality & Safety is responsible for ensuring pharmacy and medication management compliance with regulatory agencies and is the medication safety pharmacist. He/she is responsible for proactive performance improvement activities related to compliance, quality and medication safety in the pharmacy and throughout the health system. This coordinator will serve as the Pharmacist-In-Charge on record with the NJ Board of Pharmacy (NJBOP) and fulfill relegated requirements as such.

What you will do:

• Serves as the Pharmacist-in-Charge on record with the NJBOP and CSOS coordinator, fulfilling all responsibilities as dictated in the New Jersey Administrative Code Title 13, Law & Public Safety, Chapter 39, State Board of Pharmacy.
• Ensures continual compliance and remains up-to-date with all standards, laws and regulations governing the physical structure and personnel performance in the institutional pharmacy department and related to medication management enterprise wide.
• Coordinates closely with Manager, Pharmacy Inpatient Services and Manager, Clinical Pharmacy related to controlled dangerous substance oversight, medication storage and security and personnel oversight related to quality, compliance and safety.
• Develops, maintains and coordinates quality assurance and performance improvement programs for the pharmacy department and medication management system.
• Reviews and responds to medication events, trends and reports to committees as assigned.
• Leads development, maintenance and performance improvement of key medication safety initiatives to promote a safe medication use system.
• Maintains and updates the Pharmacy Policy and Procedure Manual, medication-related policies in the hospital manuals, and Pharmacy regulatory educational materials to ensure compliance with the regulatory requirements.
• Leads and participates in education of pharmacy staff, pharmacy students, nursing, and other healthcare professionals.
• Serves on the pharmacy leadership team with direct reports which may include and are not limited to the Pharmacy Project Coordinator, Procurement team.
• Leads and participates in hospital wide committees and activities related to area of practice.
• All other duties as assigned.

Education Qualifications:

• Doctorate of Pharmacy (PharmD) required.
• Completion of an ASHP-accredited PGY-1 Residency +/- completion of PGY-2 in Pharmacy Administration highly preferred.

Experience Qualifications:

• Minimum of 3 years' experience in a hospital pharmacy required.
• Pharmacy Quality & Safety experience preferred.
• Pharmacy leadership experience preferred.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Self-Motivation.
• Project Management.
• Strong communication.

Licenses and Certifications:

• PHARMD - Licensed Pharmacist Registered Pharmacist in the State of New Jersey upon hire required.

Holy Name is a mission-driven facility whose quality standards and philosophy are rooted in the principles of its founders, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace. Those principles are exercised daily by the Medical Center's dedicated and talented team of physicians, nurses, allied health employees, and a wide variety of non-clinical administrative and operational staff members. Holy Name is an Equal Opportunity Employer.