Clinical Pharmacy Specialist

Clinical Pharmacy Specialist - Job Overview

Schedule: Monday-Friday (8AM-5PM)

Join our family as a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist and bring your passion for patient-centered care to a role where your expertise can make a meaningful difference. You will help patients manage chronic illnesses, navigate their medications, and work toward better health outcomes through compassionate, evidence-based pharmacy practice.

In this position, you will build trusted relationships through face-to-face and virtual visits, transitions of care, patient education classes, and shared visits. Your thoughtful medication management and collaborative approach will help make care safer, more effective, and more personal for patients and families throughout the community.

• Provide direct clinical pharmacy care for patients living with chronic illnesses.
• Promote health and wellness through medication education, adherence counseling, and individualized care planning.
• Collaborate with patients, providers, students, and pharmacy residents across the healthcare ecosystem.
• Support safe, effective, least toxic, and most economical medication therapy.
• Contribute to innovative patient visits, including transitions of care, patient education classes, and shared visits.
• Make a difference in community healthcare through compassionate, evidence-based clinical practice.

You will have meaningful clinical responsibility and the opportunity to practice independently under an individualized scope of clinical practice. Along the way, you will partner with a collaborative healthcare team and help shape the next generation of pharmacy professionals by serving as a preceptor to students at affiliated schools of pharmacy and pharmacy residents, when available.

• Build meaningful connections with patients through in-person and virtual care.
• Strengthen collaboration among patients, families, providers, students, and pharmacy residents.
• Contribute your clinical perspective to a connected community healthcare team.
• Grow professionally through independent practice, teaching, and preceptorship opportunities.

• →Provides pharmaceutical care services through direct interactions with patients and providers and works independently under individualized scope of clinical practice.
• →Conducts face-to-face or virtual care to provide chronic disease state medication management services.
• →Obtains comprehensive medical and/or medication histories from patients and/or their records and summarizes the significant findings as documented in the medical record to ensure safe and effective care.
• →Reconciles patient medications at ambulatory care clinic visits.
• →Performs physical assessments and triaging patients as needed.
• →Documents encounters and interventions in the patient electronic medical record.
• →Designs, implements, assesses, monitors, and documents therapeutic plans utilizing the most effective, least toxic and most economical medications under scope of practice.
• →Initiates, modifies, renews, refills, or discontinues medication therapy using approved delegated procedures.
• →Orders labs and other tests to help determine efficacy and toxicity of medication therapy using approved delegating procedures.
• →Documents/reports adverse drug events (ADEs) and medication allergies per procedure.
• →Practices pharmacy in compliance with all governing regulatory authorities.
• →Reviews patient profile to ensure appropriate drug selection and dosage.
• →Provides accurate, adequate, drug information/education to patients, families, and providers on drug interactions, side effects, dosage, and storage of pharmaceuticals.
• →Assesses medication adherence during the process of medication counseling.
• →Demonstrates the ability to set priorities, work independently and cooperatively with others within and outside the department.
• →Presents information (verbal and/or written) in a clear and concise manner.
• →Serves as preceptor to students at affiliated schools of pharmacy and pharmacy residents (when available).
• →Performs other duties as assigned.

• Graduate of an accredited college/university of pharmacy (PharmD or B.S. with equivalent experience)
• Completion of ASHP accredited PGY-1 Pharmacy Residency
• Valid license from the Board of Pharmacy of the State of Texas
• Certification in Basic Life Support / First Aid / CPR

• Board-Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist (BCPS) or Board-Certified Ambulatory Care Pharmacist (BCACP)
• 2+ years of community pharmacy experience
• 2+ years of medication adherence counseling experience
• Experience in HIV/AIDs, Geriatrics, and/or Pediatrics
• Completion of ASHP accredited PGY-2 Pharmacy Residency in Ambulatory Care, Adult Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, or Pediatrics
• Certification in immunization delivery or smoking cessation

• Computer experience – Windows, Microsoft Word & Excel
• Must be able to manage multiple deadlines and prioritize
• Excellent communication skills and customer service skills.
• This job requires access to confidential and sensitive information, requiring ongoing discretion and secure information management

• Significant knowledge and expertise in advanced pharmacy practice, specialty medication therapy management, and evidence-based medicine in area(s) appropriate for clinical assignments

Approachable & Collaborative — Leads with humility, values diverse perspectives, and builds trust through teamwork.

Driven & Committed — Takes initiative and goes the extra mile to improve patient outcomes and drive continuous improvement.

Thoughtful Communicators — Pairs clinical/technical skill with emotional intelligence, navigating complex situations with empathy and professionalism.