Community Pharmacist - Holts Summit
Listed compensation
$109k-$178k
The week · per this posting · Monday – Friday
Ask the employer about call expectations, nights and shift pattern and time off.
Job Description
- Shift: Monday – Friday 8:30am – 6pm
- Department: Mizzou Pharmacy – Holts Summit
- Address: 140 Northstar, Holts Summit, MO 65043
Compensation
- Base Pay Range: $108,971 - $177,590/year, based on experience
- $10,000 Sign-On Bonus
About the Job
Join our dynamic Mizzou Pharmacy team as a community clinical pharmacist, where your expertise will make a meaningful impact on the health and well-being of our community! Within our Mizzou Pharmacy we partner with other healthcare professionals to improve the lives of our patients.
In this fast-paced and rewarding role, you will interpret, dispense, and compound medications, promoting an efficient workflow, and ensuring patients receive the right treatments and support.
Your responsibilities include clinical problem-solving, patient counseling, and providing drug information, while creating a compassionate and professional environment for all.
We value your ability to communicate effectively with patients and multidisciplinary care teams, provide an exceptional customer experience with every interaction, and ensure pharmacy operations adhere to state and federal laws.
Join us at MU Health Care, where your empathy, precision, and dedication to patient well-being will thrive, and you'll be an integral part of our commitment to delivering exceptional healthcare services. Come be a part of our caring and dynamic team where your potential for growth and impact is boundless!
About MU Health Care
MU Health Care is proud to be named one of Forbes’ Best-in-State Employers seven years in a row, and that’s largely a result of the incredible culture and team we’ve built. At MU Health Care, we have an inspired, hard-working and collaborative environment driven by our mission to save and improve lives.
Here, we believe anything is possible and rally around solutions. We celebrate innovation and offer opportunities to be a part of something bigger — to have a voice and role in the work that is serving our community and changing the field of medicine.
Our academic health system — the only in mid-Missouri — is home to seven hospitals, including the region’s only Level 1 Trauma Center and region’s only Children’s Hospital, as well as over 90 specialty clinics. Here you can define your career among our many clinical and nonclinical positions — with growth, opportunity and support every step of the way.
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- Learn more about living in mid-Missouri.
Employee Benefits
- Health, vision and dental insurance coverage starting day one
- Generous paid leave and paid time off, including ten holidays
- Multiple retirement options, including 100% matching up to 8% and full vesting in three years
- Tuition assistance for employees (75%) and immediate family members (50%)
- Discounts on cell phone plans, rental cars, gyms, hotels and more
- See a comprehensive list of benefits here.
Detailed Job Description
- Accurately and efficiently complete all components of processing, verifying, and dispensing a prescription.
- Maintain records of the transactions of the pharmacy as required by state and federal law and as necessary to maintain adequate control and accountability of all drugs.
- Contribute to the overall cleanliness of the pharmacy.
Contribute to an efficient workflow in all steps of the prescription process including accurate point-of-sale services (e. g. cash handling, prescription mail out, and mobile delivery) and third-party adjudication; other duties as assigned.
Provide clinical problem-solving, health care education, drug information, medication use evaluation, patient counseling on prescription and over-the-counter therapy, and other direct patient activities.
- Effectively communicate with staff members, medical professionals, and patients about medications.
- Demonstrate knowledge of and take correct action in clarification of medication orders, facilitation of controlled substance discrepancy resolution, significant drug interactions, and appropriate patient medication dosage.
- Document clinical interventions and troubleshoot complex problems and situations.
- Display professional integrity and empathy in all written and oral forms of communication.
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with departmental personnel, superiors, employees, and the public.
- May complete unit/department specific duties and expectations as outlined in department documents.
Required Qualifications
Pharmacist licensure by the Missouri Board of Pharmacy.
Medication Therapy Services (MTS) endorsement within one (1) year as a condition of continued employment in this job classification.
Notice of Intent to Immunize (NOI) endorsement within one (1) year as a condition of continued employment in this job classification.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in retail pharmacy. Completion of an ASHP-accredited PGY1 Residency.
Additional license/certification requirements as determined by the hiring department.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met with or without reasonable accommodation. The performance of these physical demands is an essential function of the job. The employee may be required ambulate, remain in a stationary position and position self to reach and/or move objects above the shoulders and below the knees. The employee may be required to move objects up to 10 lbs.
Equal Employment Opportunity
The University of Missouri is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Key Responsibilities
The pharmacist will interpret, dispense, and compound medications while providing clinical problem-solving and patient counseling. They are responsible for maintaining pharmacy records, ensuring regulatory compliance, and collaborating with healthcare teams to improve patient outcomes.
Requirements
Candidates must hold a pharmacist license from the Missouri Board of Pharmacy. Additionally, obtaining Medication Therapy Services (MTS) and Notice of Intent to Immunize (NOI) endorsements within one year is required.
Key Skills
Pharmacist Career Context
Of the 40 active Pharmacy listings this role was benchmarked against, 20% are remote, 45% have no call, 53% require no weekends.
The cost-of-living index for Missouri is 90.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$143k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $158k in an average-cost state. 60.1% of Missouri clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
| Measure | This job | Market |
|---|---|---|
| Work-life score | 3.9 / 10 · above average in pharmacy | ranked against 10,129 Pharmacy listingslisting-based score, 0–10 |
| Cost-of-living adjusted pay | ~$158k in purchasing power | Missouri index 90.8 (US = 100)BEA Regional Price Parities (2024) |
| Pharmacy listings in Missouri | 205 active | 10,301 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026 |
| Work setting | on-site | peers: 20% remote · 45% no call · 53% no weekends40 benchmarked listings |
| Sign-on & loan repayment | $10k sign-on | Missouri Pharmacist listings: 24% state a sign-on bonus (median $28k) · 20% offer loan repayment215 active listings, Nov 2026 |
| New Pharmacy listings | 3,778 in the last 30 days | 3,272 the 30 days before (+15%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026 |
| Pharmacy pay trend | +2.9% vs prior quarter | —through Oct 2026 |
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