Clinical Pharmacist - ED

HCA Houston Healthcare West; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Wellbeing support

Time away from work

Savings and retirement resources

Education support

Additional benefits

Job summary

HCA Houston Healthcare West is seeking a Clinical Pharmacist to lead and coordinate clinical pharmacy services within a 300+ bed hospital in West Houston. You will provide clinical guidance to patients, physicians, employees, and visitors, supporting high-quality, efficient care and program development.

Responsibilities include developing clinical programs, evaluating drug usage processes, and participating in Pharmacy and Therapeutics activities.

Qualifications

• Pharmacist license required.
• Bachelor's Degree or Doctorate Degree.
• No travel required.
• IV certification required.
• Minimum 2 years of experience.

Responsibilities

• Provides clinical pharmacy services with leadership and accountability to patients, physicians, staff and stakeholders.
• Develops, coordinates, and evaluates clinical pharmacy programs to improve practice and patient outcomes.
• Evaluates drug-use processes to identify quality and financial improvement opportunities.
• Initiates new programs pertaining to clinical operations of the department.
• Participates in Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee and related committees and coordinates activities with the chair and director of pharmacy.
• Integrates clinical services with distributive pharmacy functions.
• Performs distributive duties as needed to maintain operations.

Skills

Pharmacist

Education

Bachelor's Degree, or Doctorate Degree

Tools

IV Certification

Job description

Do you want to join an organization that invests in you as a Clinical Pharmacist? At HCA Houston Healthcare West, 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

Performs the clinical functions for the Department of Pharmacy. Will provide structure, guidance, and accountability from a clinical standpoint to customers (patients, physicians, employees, visitors, and investors) who receive pharmacy services in a professional and efficient manner.

What you will do in this role:

• Develops and coordinates the clinical functions of pharmacy practice and drug usage. Takes a proactive approach to pharmaceutical services paying attention to key industry trends and dynamics, population demographics, and local market dynamics. Recognizes customer preference and need for new product development and implements processes to support the initiative of providing high quality, effective and efficient health care services.
• Assess the needs of the department from a clinical skills standpoint. Designs, develops, and implements programs to improve the clinical skills of the departmental staff as identified by assessment processes.
• Assess the drug usage process within the facility to identify opportunities for improvement from both a quality and financial perspective. Designs, develops, and implements changes in the drug usage process to address the opportunities identified.
• Initiates and evaluates new programs to be implemented by the department of pharmacy as they pertain to the clinical operation of the department.
• Participates in all meetings of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee, Medication Safety Committee, Infection Control Committee and any other committee deemed appropriate by Administration or the Medical Staff as they relate to pharmaceutical services. Will coordinate all activities of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee with the chairperson of the committee and the director of pharmacy.
• Assists in the integration of clinical services with the distributive functions of the department.
• Performs distributive functions of the department with staff pharmacists and technicians when deem necessary to maintain effective operations.

What qualifications you will need:

• Pharmacist
• Bachelors Degree, or Doctorate Degree
• No Travel Required
• IV Cert

• 2 years experience Required Years of Experience

Benefits

HCA Houston Healthcare West, 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

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

HCA Houston Healthcare West is a full-service, 300+ bed hospital that has been offering exceptional care to the West Houston communities for over 30 years. We proudly provide Houston residents with exceptional healthcare, including a vast-array of medical services from board-certified doctors and nationally accredited departments. We are recognized as a Certified Primary Stroke Center by the Joint Commission and under an affiliation agreement with The Woman's Hospital of Texas, we are able to bring our community The Woman's Hospital of Texas at West Houston, a three-story cardiac and critical care tower. The Sugar Land Cancer Center and the Sugar Land Diagnostic Center, departments with HCA Houston Healthcare West, provide additional services to meet the needs of our community. We are members of HCA Houston Healthcare, the most comprehensive family of hospitals in the region and part of the leading provider of healthcare in the country, HCA Healthcare. Together we are stronger, smarter and more accessible in providing the patient-centered care you need close to home.

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.