Pharmacist PRN

Title: Pharmacist

Job Type: PRN

 

Your experience matters!

 

At Westpark Springs, 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. 

 

Westpark Springs is a mental health and addiction treatment center located at 6902 S Peek Road in Richmond, Texas. It offers both inpatient and outpatient services for adults, adolescents, and children dealing with psychiatric, substance use, or co-occurring disorders.

Here are some key highlights:

• Comprehensive Programs: Includes inpatient psychiatric care, detox services, and outpatient options like Partial Hospitalization (PHP) and Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOP).

• Specialized Youth Services: Offers tailored treatment for children and teens aged 12–18, with academic support and family involvement to ease reintegration into school and daily life.

• Dual Diagnosis Expertise: Focuses on treating individuals with both mental health and substance use disorders through evidence-based therapies.

• Supportive Services: Provides case management, group and family therapy, medication management, and discharge planning to ensure continuity of care.

• 24/7 Availability: Open around the clock for assessments and admissions, with a multidisciplinary team ready to respond to urgent mental health needs.

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: 

The Pharmacist collaborates with Pharmacy leadership to ensure safe, accurate, and compliant pharmaceutical services and medication management throughout the hospital. This role supports hospital‑wide performance improvement initiatives and serves as a clinical resource to Administration, Medical Staff, and interdisciplinary teams on matters related to quality, regulatory compliance, and risk management. The Pharmacist assists in coordinating and implementing pharmacy operations, supervises technical support staff, and contributes to clinical, quality, and educational programs. This position provides knowledgeable support to all departments and delivers pharmaceutical care to patients across the lifespan, including pediatric, adult, and geriatric populations.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: To perform this job, an individual must perform each essential function satisfactorily with or without reasonable accommodation. 

Accurately fills medication orders and verifies the work of staff prior to medication release.

Prioritizes workflow to ensure timely preparation of STAT, NOW, and other urgent orders.

Reviews patient profiles to ensure safe and appropriate drug therapy, preventing interactions, duplications, and avoidable adverse reactions.

Evaluates medication orders based on patient-specific factors including age, weight, renal function, disease state, labs, and other clinical data.

Provides drug information and supports staff education, patient consultation, and collaboration with Medical Staff and hospital teams.

Offers professional and technical guidance to pharmacy personnel.

Prepares unit-of-use doses when appropriate to enhance safety and efficiency.

Communicates workload status, operational concerns, and emerging issues promptly.

Demonstrates competency in serving pediatric, adult, and geriatric patient populations.

Processes medication orders efficiently while meeting established productivity standards.

Generates required reports, performs system backup procedures, and ensures completion of temperature and environmental monitoring logs.

Maintains up‑to‑date knowledge of new medications, therapies, and pharmaceutical advancements.

Provides on‑call pharmacy support after normal business hours and responds promptly to emergent situations, including medication-related emergencies, urgent physician or nursing requests, and critical drug procurement needs, ensuring continuity of safe, compliant, and effective pharmaceutical care.

Always exhibit the company’s core values of champion patient care, do the right thing, embrace individuality, act with kindness, and making a difference together. 

Other duties as assigned.

Additional Information:

Access to and/or works with sensitive and/or confidential information.

Exhibit a comprehensive understanding of healthcare regulatory and compliance (e.g., HIPAA). Skilled in the application of policies and procedures. 

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS: The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills and/or abilities required.

Knowledge of behavioral health.

Strong leadership and organizational skills.

Ability to work collaboratively with a diverse team of healthcare professionals.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Qualifications and requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy from an accredited school required. 

Licensed Pharmacist in the state in which the facility operates. 

Two years of pharmacy experience preferred. 

De-escalation certification is required within 30 days of employment and prior to any patient contact.

About us
Westpark Springs is located in Richmond, TX, and 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

“Westpark Springs is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Westpark Springs is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity for all applicants and employees and complies with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination and harassment in employment.”

About UsLifepoint Health is a leader in community-based care and driven by a mission of Making Communities Healthier. Our diversified healthcare delivery network spans 29 states and includes 63 community hospital campuses, 32 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, and more than 170 additional sites of care across the healthcare continuum, such as acute rehabilitation units, outpatient centers and post-acute care facilities. We believe that success is achieved through talented people. We want to create places where employees want to work, with opportunities to pursue meaningful and satisfying careers that truly make a difference in communities across the country. About the TeamWe employ and provide care to people from all walks of life. We are committed to promoting healing, providing hope, preserving dignity and producing value with an inclusive workforce in which diversity is leveraged, respected, and reflective of the patients, family members, customers and team members we serve.