Pharmacist

Description

The Pharmacist provides safe, accurate, timely, and compliant pharmacy services by reviewing and verifying medication orders, exercising professional judgment, resolving medication-related issues, guiding pharmacy technicians, and supporting production and clinical workflows. 

Essential Job Functions and Responsibilities 

•  Review, interpret, and clinically verify prescriptions and medication orders for accuracy, completeness, appropriateness, and compliance. 
•  Perform final verification of prepared medications and ensure product quality before dispensing. 
•  Identify and resolve interactions, duplications, dosing concerns, contraindications, allergies, and other medication-safety issues. 
•  Communicate with prescribers, facilities, caregivers, and internal partners to resolve prescription or medication concerns. 
•  Provide pharmacist oversight and direction to pharmacy technicians and student pharmacists within applicable law. 
•  Support controlled-medication, emergency-kit, MedBank, DOSIS, compounding, and other pharmacy workflows as qualified and assigned. 
•  Maintain complete documentation and comply with privacy, security, quality, controlled-substance, and regulatory requirements. 
•  Participate in quality assurance, service recovery, and continuous improvement activities.

Requirements

Basic Qualifications 

•  Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) or Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from an accredited pharmacy program. 
•  Active and unrestricted pharmacist license in the state of practice. 
•  Ability to exercise independent professional and clinical judgment in a high-volume pharmacy environment. 
•  Strong attention to detail, medication-safety orientation, communication skills, and ability to prioritize competing demands. 
•  Ability to work the schedule associated with the position and maintain all professional requirements. 

Preferred Qualifications 

•  Experience in long-term care, institutional, closed-door, specialty, infusion, IV, or high-volume pharmacy practice. 
•  Experience with pharmacy management systems, automation, and electronic medication-order workflows. 
•  Experience collaborating with pharmacy technicians and interdisciplinary healthcare partners.