Community / Retail Pharmacist - PRN Floater

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; Elizabethtown (KY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Baptist Health is seeking a Community Staff Pharmacist (PRN Float) to support pharmacy operations across our Hardin, Hardin Pavilion, and Bardstown locations. This role includes dispensing, clinical duties, immunization administration, and ensuring 340B and regulatory compliance.

The position requires KY Pharmacist license, BLS, and immunization certification within 6 months, with travel to KY sites as needed. PRN float coverage offers flexibility within our community network.

Qualifications

• Kentucky Board of Pharmacy license in good standing.
• Pharmacy degree (Pharm.D. or B.Pharm) required.
• Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
• Immunization certification to be obtained within 6 months.
• Must be willing to travel to other KY locations as needed.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Community Pharmacy Manager with oversight of pharmacy operations and personnel.
• Support orientation, training, and development of community staff.
• Ensure compliance with Baptist Health policies, 340B program (if applicable), accrediting bodies, REMS, payers, audits, and state/federal regulations.
• Complete claim and invoice reconciliation as needed by the Community Pharmacy Manager.
• Ensure controlled substance ordering, receiving, inventory, and dispensing comply with regulations.
• Maintain immunization protocols and ensure staff have current training including BLS.
• Ensure medication storage meets proper conditions and security.
• Monitor drug shortages and implement solutions to avoid delays.
• Help develop strategies to reduce medication errors.
• Coordinate safe transitions of care from hospital to patients, caregivers, and pharmacies.
• Provide prompt, friendly service prioritizing patient well-being.

Skills

Pharmacy license

BLS certification

Travel readiness

Immunization certification

Education

Pharmacy degree (Pharm.D. or B.Pharm)

Job description

Summary

Summary This position assists the Community Pharmacy Manager with the direction and development of pharmacy staff to optimize patient experience and delivery of services. The Community Staff Pharmacist provides direct patient care services including but not limited to drug regimen review, disease state management, medication counseling, adherence monitoring, discharge medication reconciliation, prescription dispensing, and immunization administration. Proficient with all steps of dispensing and verification workflows. This position is responsible for performing all pharmacy operations in accordance with accredited policies and procedures, ethical and professional practices, Board of Pharmacy, and State and Federal requirements. The Community Staff Pharmacist maintains appropriate patient record documentation for clinical and dispensing services. Adheres to best practices for medication safety and ensures appropriate documentation of medication events. The Community Staff Pharmacist is responsible for inventory management functions, including maintaining 340B program integrity as applicable to practice site.

Job Description

Baptist Health is looking for a Community Retail PRN Float Pharmacist to join our Pharmacy team! The float locations will be Baptist Health Hardin, Hardin Pavilion and Bardstown as needed.

• Assists the manager with oversight of pharmacy operations and personnel.
• Supports the orientation, training, and development of community pharmacy staff.
• Ensures compliance with Baptist Health policies, 340B program (if applicable), accrediting bodies, REMS compliance, third-party payers (including audits), and state and federal regulations.
• Ensures timely completion of all claim and invoice reconciliation as needed by the Community Pharmacy Manager.
• Ensures adequate control and documentation of controlled substance ordering, receiving, inventory management, and dispensing in compliance with state and federal regulations.
• Maintains compliance with immunization protocols and ensures all staff have current training, including BLS CPR certification.
• Ensures the integrity of medications by assuring storage under proper conditions (e.g., refrigeration) and security.
• Monitors drug shortages and implements solutions to avoid therapy delays.
• Supports the development and implementation of strategies to eliminate or minimize medication errors.
• Reports Good Catches, Adverse Drug Events, and Medication/Fluid errors.
• Coordinates safe transitions of care from the hospital with patients, caregivers, other institutions, providers, and pharmacies.
• Ensures prompt and friendly service, prioritizing the patient's well-being in all functions and duties.
• Performs responsibilities of Community Pharmacy Manager during their absence.

Minimum Requirements

• Kentucky Board of Pharmacy license in good standing.
• Bachelor's Degree in Pharmacy or Doctorate of Pharmacy required.
• Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required.
• Community Pharmacy experience preferred.
• Must obtain Immunization certification within 6 months.
• Must have and maintain a valid driver's license.
• Must be available to travel to other community pharmacies within KY as needed (Baptist Health Hardin, Hardin Pavilion and Bardstown).

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410‑bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40‑bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama. Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet or Pathway to Excellence designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

EEO Statement

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law. Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team.

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