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Brookfield, Wisconsin

Inpatient Pharmacist

PharmacistPart-Time

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Job Description

  • Your future role at a glance
  • Location: Brookfield, WI
  • Facility: Elmbrook Hospital
  • Department: Pharmacy
  • Schedule: Part-time | 32 hours | rotating shifts
  • How you’ll make an impact in this role

Clinical Vignette & Order Management: Review, validate, and optimize medication orders for clinical appropriateness. You will proactively screen for drug interactions, therapeutic duplications, and contraindications, partnering directly with prescribers to resolve complexities and meticulously document clinical interventions.

Advanced Compounding & Precision Dispensing: Oversee and accurately compound specialized sterile and non-sterile medications—including high-stakes chemotherapy and Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN)—strictly adhering to regulatory standards to ensure flawless dispensing, labeling, and inventory control.

Interdisciplinary Collaboration & Safe Transitions: Serve as the pharmacy voice during patient rounds and clinical committees. You will design tailored, patient-specific medication regimens and lead the medication reconciliation process during admissions and discharges to eliminate errors and secure seamless transitions of care.

Patient Consultation & Complex Care Advocacy: Conduct focused, high-touch consultations for patients on complex or high-risk regimens (such as anticoagulants or insulin therapies), empowering them with clear education on administration, side effects, and adherence to optimize their therapeutic outcomes.

Team Leadership & Operational Mentorship: Supervise and elevate our pharmacy technicians, ensuring rigorous quality control and unwavering regulatory compliance. You will also serve as a mentor to pharmacy students and residents while managing workflows across central, satellite, or specialty pharmacy services.

What minimum requirements you’ll need

Licensure/Certification/Registration

Pharmacist credentialed from the Wisconsin Pharmacy Examining Board obtained prior to hire date or job transfer date required.

Education

  • Bachelor's or advanced degree in Pharmacy required.
  • Benefits that help you thrive
  • Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, vision, prescription coverage and HSA/FSA options
  • Financial security & retirement: employer-matched 403(b), planning and hardship resources, disability and life insurance
  • Time to recharge: paid time off (PTO) and holidays

Career growth: Ascension-paid tuition (Vocare), reimbursement, ongoing professional development and online learning

Emotional well-being: Employee Assistance Program, counseling and peer support, spiritual care and stress management resources

  • Family support: parental leave, adoption assistance and family benefits
  • Other benefits: optional legal and pet insurance, transportation savings and more

Life at Ascension: Where purpose meets opportunity

Ascension is a leading nonprofit Catholic health system with a culture and associate experience grounded in service, growth, care and connection. We empower our 99,000+ associates to bring their skills and expertise every day to reimagining healthcare, together. Recognized as one of the Best 150+ Places to Work in Healthcare and a Military-Friendly Gold Employer, you'll find an inclusive and supportive environment where your contributions truly matter.

Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

Ascension provides Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) to all associates and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions, lactation, breastfeeding, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, all as defined by applicable law, and any other legally protected status or characteristic in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. For further information, view the EEO Know Your Rights (English) poster or EEO Know Your Rights (Spanish) poster.

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Key Responsibilities

The Inpatient Pharmacist will validate medication orders, perform complex sterile and non-sterile compounding, and lead medication reconciliation processes. They will also provide patient consultations and supervise pharmacy technicians to ensure high-quality clinical care.

Requirements

Candidates must hold a Bachelor's or advanced degree in Pharmacy and possess a valid pharmacist credential from the Wisconsin Pharmacy Examining Board. The role requires expertise in clinical pharmacy practices and the ability to work in a hospital setting.

Qualifications

Education
Bachelor degree
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Medication order validationChemotherapy preparationAnticoagulant therapy managementInsulin therapy managementPharmacy operationsStaff supervisionClinical documentation

Pharmacist Career Context

Of the 50 active Pharmacy listings this role was benchmarked against, 38% are remote, 48% have no call, 78% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Wisconsin is 94.1 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 60.7% of Wisconsin clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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

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Salary Distribution29 jobs · 25 employers

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks22 jobs

401k / retirement match
91% this job
Sign-on bonus
18%
Loan repayment
5%
CME allowance
5%
Relocation assistance
5%

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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 10,058 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

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Living in Brookfield

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$468k
Typical market rent
$2,237/mo
Residents’ average commute
21 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
96.9
State income tax
Up to 7.7%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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

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Benefits & Perks

Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, vision, prescription coverage and HSA/FSA options
Employer-matched 403(b)
Planning and hardship resources
Disability and life insurance
Paid time off (PTO) and holidays
Ascension-paid tuition (Vocare)
Reimbursement
Ongoing professional development and online learning