Clinical Pharmacist

HCA Houston Healthcare; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

401(k) with match

Tuition assistance

Job summary

The Woman's Hospital of Texas, part of HCA Houston Healthcare, is seeking a Clinical Pharmacist to interpret, fill, and check orders, compound IVs, and ensure adherence to policies and laws. You will provide clinical services for all patient populations and supervise pharmacy staff while maintaining drug safety and accuracy.

Responsibilities include reconciling MARs, advising medical staff, and ensuring supply readiness, with focus on safety, quality, and regulatory compliance in a busy hospital

Qualifications

• Pharmacist licensed as required by state law.
• Complies with hospital, pharmacy, and governing body policies.

Responsibilities

• Interpret, fill, and check physician orders for accuracy.
• Compound and check IV admixtures and ensure sterility.
• Adhere to policies, standards, and applicable laws.
• Provide clinical services to patient populations across all ages.
• Direct and supervise pharmacy staff and daily operations.
• Advise medical staff and patients on medications and safety.
• Reconcile MARs and review antibiotic sensitivities regularly.
• Ensure floor stock, inventory, and frame checks are up to date.

Skills

Pharmacist

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Do you want to join an organization that invests in you as a Clinical Pharmacist? At The Woman's Hospital of Texas, you come first. HCA Healthcare has committed up to $300 million in programs to support our incredible team members over the course of three years.

Job Summary And Qualifications

Responsible for interpreting, filling and checking physician orders. Also, responsible for compounding and checking IV admixtures. Responsible for adherence to hospital policies, standards of practice of the profession and State and Federal laws. Responsible for clinical activities as determined by pharmacy director or lead pharmacist. Responsible for the provision of services for all populations of patients (infant, child, adolescent, adult, and geriatric).

What you will do in this role

• Directs and coordinates the timely filling a delivering of drugs and IV solutions from the pharmacy.
• Accurately compounds/checks/supervises the mixing of IVs according to physician orders.
• Checks, dispenses, and documents issuances of controlled substances according to applicable laws and hospital policies.
• Enters orders, fills, and checks all medication distribution processes, including prepackaging of medications.
• Ensures that all drugs, IV solutions, and supplies are adequately stocked.
• Recommends changes and ensures that all policy and procedure changes are communicated and followed.
• Consults with and advises Medical Staff and patients, when appropriate, concerning information obtained on medications, such as warning issued on drugs currently on the market, incompatibility of certain drugs, or contraindications of drugs or other pharmaceuticals.
• Reconciles MARs and reviews antibiotic sensitivities on a regular basis.
• Checks and insures that all floor stock medications are filled and charges reconciled.
• Assists in Acudose/Robotic/Meditech maintenance and upgrades
• Performs quality-monitoring functions as requested.
• Provides hands-on, day-to-day supervision and direction for all pharmacy support staff.
• Promotes positive customer services with internal and external customers.
• Perform all other job related duties as assigned.

What qualifications you will need

• Pharmacist
• Bachelors Degree

No Travel Required

Benefits

No experience Required Years of Experience

The Woman's Hospital of Texas, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Learn More About Employee Benefits

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

At The Woman’s Hospital of Texas, our care philosophy is Woman First. It’s in our name, and it’s in our founding mission. Our 420+ bed hospital was founded in 1976 by 29 physicians who recognized a need in Houston for a facility focused solely on women in all stages of life. We were the first women's hospital in Houston and first facility in Texas dedicated to the health of women and newborns. Today, we are the state’s premier facility dedicated to the health of women and children offering expertise and an outstanding level of care in breast health, imaging, gynecology, minimally invasive surgery, infertility, obstetrics, high-risk pregnancy, and pediatrics. We deliver 800+ babies a month, more than any other hospital in Texas, and care for more multiple births than any other hospital in the region. Our Level IV NICU provides the highest level of care for premature babies and we have the area's only March of Dimes NICU Family Support program. As a member of HCA Houston Healthcare, the most comprehensive healthcare provider in the region, we are a part of a network that delivers stronger, smarter and more accessible care to women than any other medical system across the Houston area.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

“Good people beget good people.”- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.

HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.