Empower Pharmacy

Pharmacist, Dispensing 503A (3rd shift)

Houston, TX

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 20 hours ago

ComplianceProcess ImprovementHRISPharmacy PracticeFDA RegulatoryLeadershipCollaborationAdaptability

About the role

The Pharmacist, Dispensing serves as the final clinical authority responsible for verifying, releasing, and safeguarding compounded medications that impact thousands of patients daily.
Operating within Empower's 503A and 503B compounding pharmacy environment, 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.

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 daily verification processes.
Queue Management: Monitor dispensing queues, prioritize urgent prescriptions, maintain turnaround expectations, and balance verification speed with uncompromising clinical accuracy.
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.
Customer Focus: Builds trust through customer-centric solutions.

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.
Requires 2 years of experience in a pharmacy setting.
Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy or Doctor of Pharmacy degree required.
Proficiency using pharmacy management systems, barcode verification tools, automation platforms, and emerging AI-driven clinical decision support technologies.
Licensed and in good standing with the Texas State Board of Pharmacy.
Demonstrates strong attention to detail, adaptability in fast-paced and changing environments, and the ability to manage multiple tasks independently.
Accurate data entry skills required; bilingual abilities preferred.

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.

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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