Pharmacist

Job description

Title: Pharmacist
Job Type: Part time
Schedule: Four weekdays 2- 8 pm
Your experience matters!
At CHRISTUS Health Rehabilitation Hospital, we are driven by a profound commitment to prioritize your well-being so you can provide exceptional care to others. Here, you’re not just valued as an employee, but as a person.
CHRISTUS Good Shepherd Medical Center- Longview and Lifepoint Rehabilitation, an operating division of Lifepoint Health, have formed a joint venture to operate Longview Rehabilitation Hospital.
With 36 private rooms, CHRISTUS Health Rehabilitation Hospital increases capacity for treating rehabilitation patients beyond the rehabilitation unit at CHRISTUS Good Shepherd Medical Center - Longview, allowing the current inpatient rehabilitation unit to be repurposed to support acute care demand.
As a Pharmacist joining our team, you’re embracing a vital mission dedicated to making communities healthier . Join us on this meaningful journey where your skills, compassion, and dedication will make a remarkable difference in the lives of those we serve.
How you’ll contribute:
Provides safe, timely, and effective pharmaceutical care. Verifies and dispenses medications, oversees medication-use processes, reviews drug therapy for appropriateness and safety (including anticoagulant monitoring), supervises pharmacy technicians, and collaborates with the care team on medication-related quality and performance improvement.
Essential Functions
• Verify physician medication orders with accuracy and timeliness; clarify and resolve discrepancies.
• Monitor and evaluate the critical processes of medication management (e.g., selection, storage, ordering/transcribing, preparation/dispensing, administration support, and monitoring); identify risk points and drive continuous quality and performance improvement with clinicians.
• Verify and approve work performed by Pharmacy Technician(s); provide coaching and feedback.
• Order, receive, and store medications to maintain integrity, security, and compliance.
• Review patient-specific drug therapy for indications, dosing, interactions, contraindications, and duplication; promote rational, evidence-based therapy and document interventions.
• Perform anticoagulant monitoring and communicate dose/therapy recommendations per protocol or provider order.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Additional Information
Ensures compliance with hospital policies, state/federal regulations, and accreditation standards. Maintains accurate records (e.g., inventory, controlled substances, medication safety reports). Supports medication safety initiatives, adverse event prevention, and staff education. Utilizes pharmacy information systems and automated dispensing technologies as required.
Qualifications and requirements:
Education: Graduate of an accredited school of pharmacy; BS Pharm or PharmD required; accredited clinical residency preferred.
Licensure: Current state license to practice pharmacy.
Experience: Two (2) years of hospital pharmacy experience preferred.
Skills: Clinical judgment; accuracy and attention to detail; strong oral/written communication and interpersonal skills; collaboration across disciplines; proficiency with pharmacy/EMR systems and inventory control.
About us
CHRISTUS Health Rehabilitation Hospital is part of Lifepoint Health, a diversified healthcare delivery network committed to making communities healthier ® with acute care, rehabilitation, and behavioral health facilities from coast to coast. From your first day to your next career milestone—your experience matters.
EEOC Statement
“ CHRISTUS Health Rehabilitation Hospital is an Equal Opportunity Employer. CHRISTUS Health Rehabilitation Hospital is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity for all applicants and employees and complies with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination and harassment in employment.”