Pharmacist - Full-Time - UHealth Kendall

The University of Miami; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Miami Health System seeks a licensed pharmacist to compound, dispense, and manage medications in a clinical setting. This full-time position emphasizes accuracy, safety, and patient care within a university-affiliated health system in South Florida.

Responsibilities include reviewing prescriptions, advising on drug interactions, and maintaining patient records and inventories. Strong communication is required for collaboration with healthcare teams.

Qualifications

• PharmD degree required for licensure in Florida.
• Minimum 1 year of relevant pharmacy experience.
• Valid State of Florida Pharmacist license required.

Responsibilities

• Implements procedures for mixing, packaging, and labeling pharmaceuticals per policy and law.
• Compounds and dispenses medications as prescribed by doctors and dentists.
• Calculates medication volumes to ensure proper dosages.
• Assesses identity, strength, and purity of medications.
• Reviews prescriptions for accuracy and needed ingredients.
• Provides information on drug interactions, side effects, dosage, and storage.
• Analyzes prescription trends to monitor compliance and avoid harmful interactions.
• Maintains records, patient profiles, inventories, and controlled-substances registries.
• Advises customers on medication brands, equipment, and healthcare supplies.
• Adheres to university policies and safeguards assets.

Skills

Learning Agility

Teamwork

Technical Proficiency

Communication

Education

PharmD

Job description

Location: Kendall

CORE JOB SUMMARY

The Pharmacist compounds and dispenses prescribed drugs in a healthcare facility environment. Also, an employee in this position transfers prescriptions, handles incoming physician calls, logs data into applicable databases, and performs drug utilization review.

CORE JOB FUNCTIONS

1. Implements and maintains procedures for mixing, packaging, and labeling pharmaceuticals, according to policies and legal requirements, to ensure quality, security, and proper disposal.
2. Compounds and dispenses medications, as prescribed by doctors and dentists, by calculating, weighing, measuring, and mixing ingredients.
3. Calculates the volume of medication required to produce the desired results to ensure proper dosages.
4. Assesses the identity, strength, and purity of medications.
5. Reviews prescriptions to ensure accuracy, ascertain the needed ingredients, and evaluate suitability.
6. Provides information and advice regarding drug interactions, side effects, dosage, and storage.
7. Analyzes prescription trends to monitor patient compliance and prevent inappropriate usage or harmful interactions.
8. Maintains records, such as pharmacy and system files, patient profiles, inventories, control records for radioactive nuclei, and registries for poisons, narcotics, and controlled drugs.
9. Advises customers on the selection of medication brands, medical equipment, and healthcare supplies.
10. Adheres to University and unit-level policies and procedures and safeguards University assets.

This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties or responsibilities as necessary.

CORE QUALIFICATIONS

Education:

Doctorate degree - Pharmacy (PharmD) required

Experience:

Minimum 1 year of relevant experience required

Certification and Licensing:

Valid State of Florida Registered Pharmacist license required

Refer to department description for applicable certification requirements

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Learning Agility: Ability to learn new procedures, technologies, and protocols, and adapt to changing priorities and work demands.
• Teamwork: Ability to work collaboratively with others and contribute to a team environment.
• Technical Proficiency: Skilled in using office software, technology, and relevant computer applications.
• Communication: Strong and clear written and verbal communication skills for interacting with colleagues and stakeholders.

This is a core job profile description and is not reflective of all duties that may be assigned to a specific position in each individual department. The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and primary responsibilities of this core job profile. Specific duties and tasks may vary based upon departmental needs. Other duties may be assigned to the above consistent with the knowledge, skills, and abilities required for the job.

• The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, tuition remission and more.

UHealth-University of Miami Health System, South Florida's only university-based health system, provides leading-edge patient care powered by the ground breaking research and medical education at the Miller School of Medicine. As an academic medical center, we are proud to serve South Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean. Our physicians represent more than 100 specialties and sub-specialties, and have more than one million patient encounters each year. Our tradition of excellence has earned worldwide recognition for outstanding teaching, research and patient care. We're the challenge you've been looking for.

The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination based on certain categories protected by Federal law.

Job Status: Full time

Employee Type: Staff