Pharmacist

Scottish Rite for Children•Dallas, TX

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Our patients are our number one priority! We're committed to giving children back their childhood! This role maintains accountability for safe, accurate, and effective medication-use processes across inpatient, outpatient, and procedural care settings. The Pharmacist performs prospective and concurrent medication order verification for appropriateness, dosing, route, frequency, interactions, contraindications, monitoring needs, and patient-specific factors. They evaluate medication therapy and implement clinical interventions to optimize medication safety, therapeutic effectiveness, and patient outcomes. The Pharmacist maintains accurate patient medication profiles and supports continuity of care through medication reconciliation, discharge medication review, and patient/caregiver counseling as applicable. They apply age-specific and pediatric medication-use considerations, including weight-based dosing and developmental factors, in patient care decisions. The Pharmacist verifies and authorizes medication dispensing for inpatient, outpatient, procedural, and ambulatory workflows. They direct and prioritize pharmacy technician workflow to support safe, timely, and accurate medication preparation, distribution, inventory management, and service continuity. The Pharmacist maintains operational oversight of medication-use systems, including Epic Willow, Omnicell, medication builds, dispensing logic, inventory alignment, discrepancies, variances, and system-related alerts. They verify and, when needed, perform sterile and nonsterile compounding in accordance with organizational policy, USP standards, and applicable regulatory requirements. The Pharmacist ensures compounded products meet requirements for accuracy, stability, compatibility, labeling, documentation, and beyond-use dating. They maintain control and oversight of controlled substances, hazardous drugs, and medication storage areas in accordance with regulatory and organizational requirements. The Pharmacist identifies, evaluates, communicates, and mitigates medication safety risks, including medication errors, near misses, discrepancies, and workflow variances. They participate in medication-use evaluation, quality improvement, regulatory readiness, formulary support, medication stewardship, and practice advancement activities. The Pharmacist communicates effectively with prescribers, nurses, patients/caregivers, pharmacy staff, and other healthcare personnel to support safe and coordinated patient care. They maintain readiness for variable workload, staffing conditions, urgent clinical situations, and workflow disruptions in a non-24/7 pharmacy environment.

Requirements

Graduate of an ACPE-accredited school of pharmacy.
Current pharmacist license in good standing with the Texas State Board of Pharmacy.
Maintains active pharmacist licensure, required continuing education, and competency requirements in accordance with Texas State Board of Pharmacy requirements and organizational policy.
Completion of an ACPE-accredited sterile compounding (IV) certification program required.
Demonstrates and maintains sterile compounding competency in accordance with organizational and regulatory requirements.
Demonstrated proficiency in medication order verification, clinical evaluation, dispensing, compounding, medication-use systems, and workflow prioritization.
Effective oral and written communication skills, interpersonal skills, computer skills, and ability to manage competing priorities without loss of accuracy or safety.

Nice To Haves

Hospital pharmacy experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Maintains accountability for safe, accurate, and effective medication-use processes across inpatient, outpatient, and procedural care settings.
Performs prospective and concurrent medication order verification for appropriateness, dosing, route, frequency, interactions, contraindications, monitoring needs, and patient-specific factors.
Evaluates medication therapy and implements clinical interventions to optimize medication safety, therapeutic effectiveness, and patient outcomes.
Maintains accurate patient medication profiles and supports continuity of care through medication reconciliation, discharge medication review, and patient/caregiver counseling as applicable.
Applies age-specific and pediatric medication-use considerations, including weight-based dosing and developmental factors, in patient care decisions.
Verifies and authorizes medication dispensing for inpatient, outpatient, procedural, and ambulatory workflows.
Directs and prioritizes pharmacy technician workflow to support safe, timely, and accurate medication preparation, distribution, inventory management, and service continuity.
Maintains operational oversight of medication-use systems, including Epic Willow, Omnicell, medication builds, dispensing logic, inventory alignment, discrepancies, variances, and system-related alerts.
Verifies and, when needed, performs sterile and nonsterile compounding in accordance with organizational policy, USP standards, and applicable regulatory requirements.
Ensures compounded products meet requirements for accuracy, stability, compatibility, labeling, documentation, and beyond-use dating.
Maintains control and oversight of controlled substances, hazardous drugs, and medication storage areas in accordance with regulatory and organizational requirements.
Identifies, evaluates, communicates, and mitigates medication safety risks, including medication errors, near misses, discrepancies, and workflow variances.
Participates in medication-use evaluation, quality improvement, regulatory readiness, formulary support, medication stewardship, and practice advancement activities.
Communicates effectively with prescribers, nurses, patients/caregivers, pharmacy staff, and other healthcare personnel to support safe and coordinated patient care.
Maintains readiness for variable workload, staffing conditions, urgent clinical situations, and workflow disruptions in a non-24/7 pharmacy environment.