Clinical Pharmacist

Clinical Pharmacist

Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized.

Performs the clinical functions for the Department of Pharmacy. Will provide structure, guidance, and accountability from a clinical standpoint to customers (patients, physicians, employees, visitors, and investors) who receive pharmacy services in a professional and efficient manner.

What you will do in this role:

• Develops and coordinates the clinical functions of pharmacy practice and drug usage. Takes a proactive approach to pharmaceutical services paying attention to key industry trends and dynamics, population demographics, and local market dynamics. Recognizes customer preference and need for new product development and implements processes to support the initiative of providing high quality, effective and efficient health care services.
• Assess the needs of the department from a clinical skills standpoint. Designs, develops, and implements programs to improve the clinical skills of the departmental staff as identified by assessment processes.
• Assess the drug usage process within the facility to identify opportunities for improvement from both a quality and financial perspective. Designs, develops, and implements changes in the drug usage process to address the opportunities identified.
• Initiates and evaluates new programs to be implemented by the department of pharmacy as they pertain to the clinical operation of the department.
• Participates in all meetings of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee, Medication Safety Committee, Infection Control Committee and any other committee deemed appropriate by Administration or the Medical Staff as they relate to pharmaceutical services. Will coordinate all activities of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee with the chairperson of the committee and the director of pharmacy.
• Assists in the integration of clinical services with the distributive functions of the department.
• Performs distributive functions of the department with staff pharmacists and technicians when deem necessary to maintain effective operations.

HCA Houston Healthcare West, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

HCA Houston Healthcare West is a full-service, 300+ bed hospital that has been offering exceptional care to the West Houston communities for over 30 years. We proudly provide Houston residents with exceptional healthcare, including a vast-array of medical services from board-certified doctors and nationally accredited departments. We are recognized as a Certified Primary Stroke Center by the Joint Commission and under an affiliation agreement with The Woman's Hospital of Texas, we are able to bring our community The Woman's Hospital of Texas at West Houston, a three-story cardiac and critical care tower. The Sugar Land Cancer Center and the Sugar Land Diagnostic Center, departments with HCA Houston Healthcare West, provide additional services to meet the needs of our community. We are members of HCA Houston Healthcare, the most comprehensive family of hospitals in the region and part of the leading provider of healthcare in the country, HCA Healthcare. Together we are stronger, smarter and more accessible in providing the patient-centered care you need close to home.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our Clinical Pharmacist opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing - apply today!

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.