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Inpatient Pharmacist Team Lead

PharmacistFull-Time

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Job Description

Job Description Summary

  • Under the general guidance of the Inpatient Pharmacy Manager, provide operational and clinical pharmacy leadership within specialty area
  • Entity
  • Medical University Hospital Authority (MUHA)
  • Worker Type
  • Employee
  • Worker Sub-Type
  • Regular
  • Cost Center
  • CC000611 CHS - Pharmacy - IP (ART)
  • Pay Rate Type

Salary

  • Pay Grade
  • Health-34
  • Scheduled Weekly Hours
  • 40

Work Shift

Job Description

In collaboration with the health care team, ensure that the Pharmacy provides the optimal drug therapy to patients as evidenced by proper drug selection, dose, route, duration of therapy, and cost effectiveness.

Develop, implement, and coordinate pharmacy programs and enhance the quality of existing services in specialty area. Provide oversight and monitoring of clinical and operational pharmacy initiatives and services.

Collaborate with interdisciplinary team members to optimize the delivery of care, ensuring relevant safety, regulatory, certification and/or accreditation standard are maintained, and various required human resource functions.

Serves as the Pharmacist-In-Charge and ensures the operation of the pharmacy is in conformance with all laws pertinent to the practice of pharmacy and the distribution of drugs and supervision of pharmacy personnel.

Additional Job Description

  • Education: Doctor of Pharmacy degree and completion of a pharmacy residency program or 2 years of work experience as a registered pharmacist. Licenses and certifications: SC Pharmacist License, Current BLS Certification (within 90 days of start date)
  • If you like working with energetic enthusiastic individuals, you will enjoy your career with us!

The Medical University of South Carolina is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment based upon applicable qualifications, merit and business need.

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Key Responsibilities

Provide operational and clinical leadership for the inpatient pharmacy department while ensuring optimal drug therapy and safety for patients. Oversee pharmacy initiatives, maintain regulatory compliance, and supervise pharmacy personnel as the Pharmacist-in-Charge.

Requirements

Requires a Doctor of Pharmacy degree and either a completed pharmacy residency or two years of experience as a registered pharmacist. Must hold an SC Pharmacist License and obtain BLS certification within 90 days of starting.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Drug therapy optimizationPharmacy operationsStaff supervisionMedication safetyInterdisciplinary collaborationQuality improvementPharmacist-in-charge duties

Pharmacist Career Context

Of the 50 active Pharmacy listings this role was benchmarked against, 36% are remote, 56% have no call, 72% require no weekends.

Pharmacy pay on WeekdayDoc is down 1.7% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

The cost-of-living index for South Carolina is 93.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 60.6% of South Carolina clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Salary Distribution32 jobs · 29 employers

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$155k-170k
11
$170k-185k
3
$185k+

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks25 jobs

401k / retirement match
92%
Sign-on bonus
20%
Loan repayment
12%
CME allowance
8%
PSLF eligible
8%

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Work-life snapshot

median 2.8this job 1.5
Below most Pharmacy listings for work-life

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 9,813 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in Charleston

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$534k
Typical market rent
$2,312/mo
Residents’ average commute
24 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
101.0
State income tax
Up to 6.5%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Charleston-North Charleston, SC metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.