Job Description
Hiring Post: Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – Correctional Health (25K Retention Bonus)
Compensation: $130,332.80 to $169,436.80/year
Career Area: Correctional Health
Location: Harris County Sheriff’s Office, Houston, TX 77002
Position Type: Full-Time
Job ID: 179286
Benefits
- Day 1 medical, dental, and vision coverage
- $10k student loan repayment
- $25K Retention Bonus
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
- Short- and Long-Term Disability insurance
- Life and AD&D insurance
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer contributions
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Subsidized parking
- Access to a credit union
- Employee disaster relief support
- Tuition Reimbursement (available after 6 months of employment)
About the Position
Harris Health System is seeking a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist (Infectious Diseases) to join the Correctional Health team. In this role, you will provide advanced clinical pharmacy services, ensuring optimal and cost-effective medication management for patients.
You will participate in multi-disciplinary rounds, deliver direct patient care, and support clinical initiatives. This role also includes educating pharmacists, technicians, and healthcare providers, as well as serving as a preceptor for pharmacy interns, technicians, and residents. The position requires a strong commitment to innovation, clinical excellence, and improving patient outcomes.
About Harris Health System
Harris Health System is the public healthcare safety-net provider established in 1966 to serve the residents of Harris County, Texas. As an essential healthcare system, Harris Health champions better health for the entire community, focusing on low-income, uninsured, and underinsured populations through acute care, primary care, wellness, disease management, and population health services.
Its flagship hospitals — Ben Taub Hospital (Level 1 Trauma Center) and Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital (Level 3 Trauma Center) — anchor a network of 39 clinics, health centers, and specialty locations, including telemedicine services. Harris Health is nationally recognized for Magnet® nursing excellence, NCQA patient-centered care, and strong academic partnerships with institutions such as Baylor College of Medicine, UTHealth, MD Anderson Cancer Center, and the University of Houston.
Requirements
- Education:
- Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD)
- Licensure/Certification:
- Registered with the Texas State Board of Pharmacy
- Must obtain Texas licensure within 90 days if new graduate or reciprocity applicant
- ACPE IV Sterile Certification required
- Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) Certification required
- Experience:
- Minimum of 3 years clinical pharmacy experience
- OR completion of ASHP-accredited PGY1 or PGY2 residency program
- Communication Skills:
- Above Average Verbal (heavy public contact)
- Strong written communication (reports)
- Technical Skills:
- Proficiency in MS Word and computer applications
- Knowledge/Skills:
- Analytical and research skills
- Medical terminology
- Statistical and mathematical knowledge
- Clinical design and problem-solving abilities
- Work Schedule:
- Flexible schedule including weekends, holidays, overtime, travel, and on-call
Join Harris Health System and play a vital role in advancing clinical pharmacy practice while improving patient outcomes in a correctional health setting.
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Numbers & Facts
| Location | Houston, TX |
| Job Type | Full-time |
| Industry | Healthcare Services |
| Company Size | 5,000 to 9,999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1966 |
| Website | https://www.harrishealth.org/en/pages/home.aspx |
About Company
Harris Health is a nationally recognized health system comprising three teaching hospitals and an extensive network of ambulatory care centers serving the people of Harris County, Texas, since 1966. Staffed by the faculty, fellows and residents from two nationally ranked medical schools, Baylor College of Medicine and The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), Harris Health is the first healthcare system in Houston to receive the prestigious National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) designation for its network of patient-centered medical homes.
Each year, Harris Health provides more than 1.8 million total outpatient visits through its more than 40 ambulatory care facilities. Additionally, Harris Health sees more than 177,000 emergency visits at its Level 1 and Level 3 trauma centers and 35,000 hospital admissions through its three hospitals: Ben Taub, LBJ and Quentin Mease. Established by voter referendum to enhance the level of charity care available in the community, Harris Health System has often received national recognition for serving those in need and for its achievements in operational excellence, such as being named to the 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 Most Wired Hospitals lists by the American Hospital Association's Hospitals & Health Networks magazine.
Additionally, Harris Health System is pleased that each of its three hospitals: Ben Taub, Lyndon B. Johnson and Quentin Mease - achieved Pathway to Excellence designation by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
Skills
- Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D)unmatched
- Acute Careunmatched
- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- Cancerunmatched
- Clinical Supportunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Community Healthunmatched
- Correctional Healthunmatched
- Cost Controlunmatched
- Credit Unionunmatched
- Disability Insuranceunmatched
- Disease Prevention and Controlunmatched
- Employee Assistance Planunmatched
- Flexible Spending Accountsunmatched
- Healthcareunmatched
- Healthcare Providersunmatched
- Hospitalunmatched
- Infectious Diseasesunmatched
- Insuranceunmatched
- Mathematicsunmatched
- Medical Terminologyunmatched
- Medicationsunmatched
- Medicineunmatched
- Microsoft Wordunmatched
- National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)unmatched
- Nursingunmatched
- Patient Careunmatched
- Pharmacyunmatched
- Primary Careunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Public Healthunmatched
- Public Safetyunmatched
- Quality of Careunmatched
- Research Skillsunmatched
- Student Loansunmatched
- Telemedicineunmatched
- Tuition Reimbursementunmatched
- Writing Skillsunmatched
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