Staff Pharmacist I

North Mississippi Health Services, Inc.; Tupelo (MS); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Continuing Education

403B Retirement Plan with Employer Mat

Medical Benefits

Relocation Assistance

Paid Time Away

Job summary

North Mississippi Health Services, Inc. seeks a Staff Pharmacist I to deliver comprehensive pharmaceutical care, patient education, and medication therapy monitoring across care settings. The role emphasizes safe drug distribution, education, and impact on patient outcomes.

The Pharmacist will work with health care professionals to ensure quality, efficiency, and regulatory compliance while supporting cost-effective therapies and ongoing patient safety initiatives.

Qualifications

• Provide and document pharmaceutical care to improve patient outcomes.
• Educate patients and healthcare professionals on medications.
• Monitor medication therapy and ensure safety and effectiveness.
• Collaborate with healthcare teams to optimize drug use and distribution.

Responsibilities

• Clinical care and drug information services.
• Quality assurance and regulatory compliance in dispensing.
• Education of pharmacy staff, students and new hires.
• Participation in community programs for medication safety.

Skills

Pharmaceutical care

Drug information

Patient education

Medication therapy monitoring

Interprofessional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Pharmacy

Pharmacist License

Job description

We believe a career is more than just a career — it's a calling. Our teammates' "True North" is what calls them to health care; it’s their passion. At North Mississippi Health Services, we believe in helping you leverage and connect that passion with a much greater purpose that impacts people you know and love.

Job Description

JOB SUMMARY The Staff Pharmacist I role at North Mississippi Health Services encompasses a broad range of responsibilities including clinical care, education, operational efficiency, and financial impact. This position involves providing pharmaceutical care, drug information, patient education, and medication therapy monitoring. The Staff Pharmacist collaborates with various healthcare professionals and plays a key role in maintaining medication safety, efficient drug distribution, and positive patient outcomes.

JOB FUNCTIONS

• Clinical: Provide and document pharmaceutical care: the direct, responsible provision of medication-related care for the purpose of achieving definite outcomes that improve a patient’s quality of life.
• Perform the following services: drug information and research; patient/family education; medication use.
• Evaluation and quality assurance activities; medication history and assessment; monitoring for adverse drug reaction, stop orders, drug allergies, drug interactions; drug therapy monitoring and therapeutic intervention.
• Educational: Assist with education of pharmacy staff, students and other health care professionals regarding safe and effective use of medications including drug distribution, drug information and drug therapy monitoring and evaluation.
• Provide teaching and experience to pharmacy students and new hires.
• Participate in community programs that help people make the best use of their medications.
• Operational: Participate in the departmental performance improvement program.
• Assist in ensuring departmental compliance with accreditation, legal, regulatory, and safety requirements.
• Assist in prevention, detection and resolution of medication use problems. Financial.
• Impact departmental costs by recommendations for changes in therapy to improve patient outcomes; provide adequate documentation of interventions accepted.
• Impact cost of operations.
• Distributive: Design and implement approaches to support and enable delivery of pharmaceutical care.
• Assist with implementation of policies and procedures concerning all drug distribution systems (including primarily unit dose medication dispensing for inpatients, IV admixtures, floor stock for specialty units, crash carts, narcotics, and control drug and outpatient dispensing).
• Determine methods to decrease errors, decrease cost, increase efficiency, increase control and increase accuracy of medication use. QUALIFICATIONS Education
• Bachelor's Degree Must have graduated from an accredited school of pharmacy.. Required
• Must be licensed to practice by State Board of Pharmacy in which the facility is located. Required
• . .
• Must be competent to provide basic pharmaceutical care services to infant, pediatric, adolescent, adult and geriatric patient populations either through personal expertise or through appropriate information sources of networking.
• Must be knowledgeable in area of expertise to survey the patient’s needs and incorporate those needs into a care plan that will result in positive patient outcomes.
• Must work closely with all pharmacy team members and health care professionals including: nursing, medical staff, students, residents and manufacturer’s representatives.
• Must communicate and collaborate daily with patient and health care professionals when appropriate to achieve optimal outcomes.
• Physical Demands: A thorough completion of this section is needed for compliance with legal standards such as the Americans with Disabilities Act. The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• Standing. Frequently
• Walking. Frequently
• Sitting. Occasionally
• Lifting/Carrying. Occasionally 60 lbs
• Pushing/Pulling. Occasionally
• Climbing. Occasionally
• Balancing. Occasionally
• Stooping/Kneeling/Bending. Occasionally
• Reaching/Over Head Work. Occasionally
• Grasping. Frequently
• Speaking. Constantly
• Hearing. Constantly
• Repetitive Motions. Constantly
• Eye/Hand/Foot Coordinations. Frequently
• Benefits A****vailable: Continuing Education, 403B Retirement Plan with Employer Match Contributions, Pet, Identity Theft and Legal Services Insurance, Wellness Programs and Incentives, Employee Assistance Program, Medical Benefits, License+ Certification Reimbursement, Life, Long-Term and Short-Term Disability, Group Accident, Critical Illness and Hospital Indemnity Insurance, Employee Discount Program, Other:, Early Access to Earned Wages, Tuition Assistance, Relocation Assistance, Paid Time Away, Special Employee Rates at NMMC Wellness Centers

Requirements

The following are requirements in addition to any stated in the above description.

Licenses

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Education

You must have the following education to apply: