Location: Houston, Texas 77030
Work Arrangement: 100% onsite
Employment Type: Full-time, permanent, salaried/exempt
Setting: Children’s Hospital – Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Experience Level: Clinical Specialist
Reports To: Pharmacy Director
Base Salary: $131,000–$156,000
Schedule: Five eight-hour day shifts
On-Call: Rotating coverage approximately once every 8–9 weeks
Travel: Not required
Relocation Assistance: Case-by-case assistance may be available
Visa Sponsorship: Not available
Position Overview
A nationally recognized children’s hospital in Houston is expanding its pediatric pharmacy team and seeking a residency-trained NICU Clinical Pharmacist Specialist.
This specialized clinical role provides direct pharmacy services to critically ill neonates within a high-acuity NICU. The successful candidate will work with neonatologists, physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other care-team members to optimize complex medication therapies and improve outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
• Provide direct clinical pharmacy services to critically ill neonates.
• Participate actively in multidisciplinary NICU rounds and care planning.
• Review medication regimens for safety, effectiveness and appropriateness.
• Make evidence-based pharmacotherapy recommendations.
• Support neonatal medication selection, dosing, administration and monitoring.
• Apply neonatal pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic principles.
• Consider gestational age, postnatal age, weight, organ maturity and clinical condition.
• Monitor therapeutic response, laboratory values and adverse effects.
• Prevent medication errors, interactions, duplication and inappropriate therapy.
• Provide drug-information consultation to physicians, nurses and pharmacists.
• Develop guidelines, order sets, protocols and medication-use standards.
• Lead medication-use evaluations, quality improvement and cost-containment work.
• Educate pharmacy residents, students, clinicians and other healthcare professionals.
• Support clinical research, publication and presentation activity.
• Participate in rotating on-call coverage.
Required Qualifications
• Doctor of Pharmacy degree from an accredited program.
• Current or eligible Texas pharmacist license.
• Completion of appropriate PGY2 residency training.
• Dedicated NICU clinical pharmacy experience.
• Strong knowledge of neonatal pharmacotherapy, pharmacokinetics and medication safety.
• Ability to communicate effectively within a multidisciplinary clinical team.
• Strong clinical judgement, research and teaching skills.
• Ability to work onsite in Houston.
• Current U.S. work authorization without sponsorship.
Preferred Qualifications
• Board certification in pediatric pharmacotherapy or another relevant specialty.
• Children’s hospital or high-acuity academic-medical-center experience.
• Experience with protocol development, medication-use evaluation and quality improvement.
• Research, publication and precepting experience.
Benefits may include medical, dental and vision insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, education support and professional-development opportunities.
Equal Opportunity
The hospital is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers qualified applicants without discrimination based on any status protected by applicable law.