Empower Pharmacy

Empower Pharmacy

Staff Pharmacist 503A (2nd Shift)

Houston, TX · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 20 hours ago
ComplianceProcess ImprovementHRISPharmacy PracticeFDA RegulatoryLeadershipCollaborationAdaptability

About the role

  • The Staff Pharmacist serves as the final clinical authority responsible for verifying, releasing, and safeguarding compounded medications that impact thousands of patients daily.
  • Operating within the largest 503A and 503B compounding pharmacy in the world, this role combines clinical judgment, operational discipline, and regulatory precision to ensure every prescription meets uncompromising safety and compliance standards.
  • Success requires decisive thinking, learning agility, and the willingness to leverage AI-enabled verification tools, automation systems, and data insights as force multipliers that elevate accuracy, productivity, and patient safety at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Prescription Verification: Perform final verification of compounded prescriptions, ensuring dosing accuracy, labeling precision, allergy review, interaction screening, and regulatory documentation before medication release.
  • Clinical Interventions: Evaluate prescriptions for therapeutic appropriateness, identify dosing or formulation risks, communicate with prescribers for clarification, and document interventions clearly.
  • Safety Oversight: Maintain uncompromising patient safety standards by identifying discrepancies, preventing dispensing errors, and enforcing clinical safeguards throughout verification processes.
  • Queue Management: Monitor dispensing queues continuously, prioritize urgent prescriptions, maintain turnaround expectations, and balance verification speed with uncompromising clinical accuracy under pressure.
  • Process Improvement: Identify workflow inefficiencies, documentation gaps, and preventable rework patterns, recommending practical operational improvements that increase throughput and maintain regulatory compliance.
  • Audit Readiness: Maintain inspection-ready practices, proactively identifying compliance risks and correcting procedural gaps before they escalate into regulatory issues.
  • AI Utilization: Leverage AI-assisted verification tools and clinical decision support systems to strengthen accuracy, accelerate verification, and reduce cognitive workload.
  • Strong operational awareness with the ability to manage dispensing queues, prioritize workload under pressure, maintain accuracy, and guide technicians through structured workflows in fast-paced environments.

Requirements

  • While performing the responsibilities of the job, the employee is required to talk and hear.
  • Employees are regularly required to move about the office and around the corporate campus.
  • The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
  • Strong understanding of pharmacy regulations, quality standards, and patient safety practices.
  • Demonstrated ability to work effectively in high-volume, fast-paced environments with strong attention to detail and accountability.
  • Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree from an accredited institution required.
  • Active pharmacist license in good standing required (state-specific as applicable).
  • Proficiency using pharmacy management systems, barcode verification tools, automation platforms, and emerging AI-driven clinical decision support technologies to improve verification accuracy and operational efficiency.
  • Experience in 503A/503B compounding, sterile or non-sterile environments, or regulated healthcare settings preferred.

Nice to have

  • Minimum 1-3 years of experience in pharmacy operations, compounding, or clinical practice preferred.

Skills

  • Experience and

Benefits

  • We offer comprehensive benefits to support your health, well-being, and future, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, 401(k) matching, wellness perks, IV therapy, and compounded medications.

Company info

  • Empower Pharmacy is a visionary healthcare company dedicated to making quality, affordable medication accessible to millions of patients nationwide.
  • As the nation's most advanced 503A compounding pharmacy and FDA-registered 503B outsourcing facility, we're redefining what's possible in personalized medicine and pharmaceutical manufacturing.
  • We're proud to be recognized as one of Houston's fastest-growing private companies and ranked #116 in Healthcare & Medical on the Inc.
  • 5000 List for 2025.
  • Empowering people defines who we are.
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