Pharmacist

Park Ridge Pharmacy; Park Ridge (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee discounts

Paid time off

Health insurance

Job summary

Park Ridge Pharmacy is seeking a Pharmacist-in-Charge designate to lead retail, long-term care, and compounding operations in Park Ridge, NJ. You’ll start as staff pharmacist and transition to PIC after a 90‑day readiness plan, with pay steps up on designation.

Responsibilities include dispensing, LTC coordination, and non‑sterile compounding oversight, with a fixed 70 hours over two weeks and two-pharmacist workflow.

Qualifications

• Active NJ pharmacist license and CDS registration in good standing.
• Immunization certification with NJ administration authority; current BLS.
• 5+ years as a pharmacist; comfortable at high daily prescription volumes with technician support.
• Has supervised, led, or run a pharmacy operation, shift, or program.

Responsibilities

• Verify and dispense prescriptions for retail patients; counsel patients and caregivers.
• Long-term care: verify cycle fills and blister/unit-dose packaging for contracted facilities; handle new admits and dose changes.
• Oversee non-sterile compounding with a trained technician.
• Administer immunizations in-store and support seasonal facility clinics.
• Within 90 days: PIC policies, self-audit, CDS inventory, Board filing.
• Address prescriber, patient, and staff issues directly and decisively.

Skills

Active NJ pharmacist license

CDS registration

Immunization certification

5+ years as a pharmacist

Leadership/management experience

Education

PharmD or BS Pharm

Tools

PioneerRx

Job description

Benefits:

• Employee discounts
• Paid time off

Pharmacist-in-Charge Designate — Retail, Long-Term Care & Compounding

Park Ridge Pharmacy — Park Ridge, NJ (Bergen County, 15 minutes from Rockland County, NY)

Full-time · 70 hours per two weeks · Alternating Saturdays

About Us

Park Ridge Pharmacy is an independent, multi-service pharmacy in Bergen County serving retail patients, long-term care facilities and LTC‑at‑home residents, and non‑sterile compounding (USP 795/800) patients. We are also a New York‑registered non‑resident pharmacy. Roughly a third of our growth plan is long‑term care; another third is compounding, with a 3D printer arriving for the lab.

The owner is moving from the bench to running the business. We're hiring the pharmacist he hands the pharmacy to.

Who We're Looking For

You don't need to have been a Pharmacist‑in‑Charge before. You need to want to be one, and to have run something well — a hospital shift, an outpatient pharmacy, an immunization program, a clinic. You make decisions and hold them. You'd rather own the standard than follow someone else's. If you're leaving a health system or a chain for a place where the decisions are actually yours, this is that job.

The Role

You join as staff pharmacist. On completing a defined 90‑day readiness plan — authoring the pharmacy's PIC policies, a Board‑checklist self‑audit, taking over the CDS inventory — you file as Pharmacist‑in‑Charge and your pay steps up. The store manager and LTC operations manager run daily operations; you set the clinical and compliance standard they work to.

Schedule

70 hours per two weeks. Four fixed weekday shifts per week (9:00–5:00 or 11:00–7:00, alternating), plus every other Saturday 10:00–3:00. One weekday off every week, every other weekend off. Two‑pharmacist model with a protected daily production window. No 12‑hour solo shifts. No Sundays.

Responsibilities

• Verify and dispense prescriptions for retail patients; counsel patients and caregivers
• Long‑term care: verify cycle fills and blister/unit‑dose packaging for contracted facilities and LTC‑at‑home residents; handle new admits, dose changes, and STAT orders; work with facility nursing and the LTC operations manager
• Oversee non‑sterile compounding with a trained technician
• Administer immunizations in‑store and support seasonal facility clinics
• Within 90 days: PIC policies, self‑audit, CDS inventory, Board filing
• Address prescriber, patient, and staff issues directly and decisively

Qualifications

• Active NJ pharmacist license and CDS registration in good standing; PharmD or BS Pharm
• Immunization certification with NJ administration authority; current BLS
• 5+ years as a pharmacist; comfortable at 150 prescriptions/day with a technician team
• Has supervised, led, or run a pharmacy operation, shift, or program
• New York pharmacist license strongly preferred — the PIC becomes our NY supervising pharmacist of record. Without one, eligible for reciprocity and willing to apply in the first 90 days.
• Helpful: long‑term care / blister‑card experience, non‑sterile compounding (we train on our system), NY immunization certificate, PioneerRx

Compensation and Benefits

• Compensation at the top of the New Jersey independent pharmacy range, with a defined increase on assuming PIC and a 12‑month retention bonus. Numbers shared on the first call.
• Fixed schedule; one weekday and every other weekend off
• Professional liability premium reimbursed; license renewal and CE covered
• [Health / PTO / 401(k) — insert]

How We Hire

Phone screen, in‑person interview, and a paid three‑shift working trial before offer. We hire on what we see.