What are the responsibilities and job description for the Pharmacist Outpatient- Contract position at Prairie Band Health Services?
Description
Looking for a pharmacist role where your skills make a daily impact? Step into a long-term assignment at Peach Springs Health Center, part of the Phoenix Area Indian Health Service. Here, you’ll provide essential pharmacy services to a welcoming community while working alongside a supportive, multidisciplinary care team. This is more than just a contract—it’s a chance to combine clinical expertise with meaningful service in one of Arizona’s most unique regions.
Learn more abo ut the facility: https://www.ihs.gov/Phoenix/healthcarefacilities/coloradoriver/
Position Highlights:
- Long-term contract with potential for extension
- Outpatient-focused pharmacy services at Peach Springs Health Center
- 8-hour shifts, 40 hours per week
- Active license from any U.S. state accepted
- Supportive, mission-driven team culture
- Opportunity to live and work in Arizona’s beautiful Hualapai region
Qualifications:
- Graduate of an accredited pharmacy program/school
- Active pharmacy license in any U.S. state
- Minimum of 2 years’ pharmacy experience
- Prior IHS or federal facility experience preferred
- Contract or travel experience is highly desired
- Must be able to pass a federal background check
Key Responsibilities:
- Interpret and verify provider orders to ensure safe, effective medication use
- Dispense medications and provide clear, patient-centered counseling
- Conduct assessments to monitor medication effectiveness and adherence
- Manage pharmacy inventory and ensure proper storage and security protocols
- Prepare and handle medications according to best-practice safety standards
- Collaborate with other clinical departments to support comprehensive patient care
- Serve as a resource for medication therapy management and drug information
Additional Duties: Additional duties and responsibilities may be added to this job description at any time. The job description does not state or imply that these are the only activities to be performed by the employee holding this position. Employees are required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related responsibilities as requested by the supervisor
Tribal Preference Exercised: Prairie Band, LLC is subject to Title 22 Employment Code of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation. In accordance with Title 22, this position is designated as a TIER 2 position. Preference will be granted to individuals as required by Section 22-2-4(8).
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Requirements
Requirements
- Be a graduate of an accredited pharmacy program/school
- Previous contract experience is a plus
- Previous IHS facility experience helpful
- Hospital pharmacy experience preferred
- Have a Pharmacist degree from a school of pharmacy approved by a state-accrediting agency
- Possess a current, active, unrestricted license from any of the 50 United States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or the District of Columbia.
- Maintain continuing education/certification
- Must be a US citizen, living primarily in the United States
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification
- Have a minimum of 2 years of experience as a pharmacist within the past 36 months
- References required
- Must meet all credentialing and background investigation requirements.
Apply today, we are looking forward to speaking with you.
