Clinical Pharmacist

Boston Children’s Hospital; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on bonus

Job summary

Boston Children’s Hospital seeks a 40-hour inpatient pharmacist for evening coverage. The role involves interpreting orders, ensuring safe dosages, and supervising support staff in the hospital pharmacy.

Responsibilities include patient education, drug information provision, and contributing to quality improvements, with Massachusetts licensure required or achieved within 90 days. A sign-on bonus is offered.

Qualifications

• Pharmacist licensure in Massachusetts or intern license with licensure within 90 days.
• Completion of degree in pharmacy; Doctorate preferred for advanced practice.
• Experience with hospital pharmacy operations and EPIC Willow/Beacon systems.

Responsibilities

• Interpret and evaluate medication orders to ensure appropriate drug and dosage.
• Review, fill and dispense physician orders; ensure proper labeling.
• Check orders filled by staff and verify correct preparation.
• Provide drug information as a subject matter expert and educate patients.
• Participate in quality improvement activities and supervise staff as needed.

Skills

Analytical skills

Hospital pharmacist experience

EPIC Willow

Beacon

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy

Doctorate degree in Pharmacy preferred

Tools

EPIC Willow

Beacon

Job description

Position Summary

The mission of the Department of Pharmacy is to provide excellent and innovative pharmaceutical care to patients and the community through safe and collaborative practices, incorporating education, research, and technology. We are currently searching for a 40-hour pharmacist, evening shift, to provide coverage in our inpatient operations area.

Key Responsibilities

• Controlled substances distribution, non-sterile compounding oversight, inventory functions oversight, discharge prescriptions, and hospital patient daily medication supply provision review.
• Interpreting and evaluating medication orders to ensure drug and dosage are appropriate for patient and to identify possible adverse reactions, contacting physician as needed.
• Reviewing, filling and dispense physician medication orders/prescriptions.
• Checking orders/prescriptions filled by support personnel, verifying products are correctly prepared and labeled.
• Providing drug information as a subject matter expert.
• Providing patient education.
• Completing medication history documentation.
• Performing quality improvement activities.
• Supervising support personnel within the assigned work area and ensuring products are prepared and distributed in accordance with established procedures, schedules and protocols

Minimum Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in pharmacy, Doctorate degree in pharmacy preferred

Experience

• Up to one year of post degree course work and/or an internship and: two to three years general pharmacy experience, or one year directly related‑ pediatric experience.
• Analytical skills to collect information from diverse sources, apply professional principles in performing various analyses, and summarize the information and data to solve problems OR design relatively complex systems and programs.
• Hospital pharmacist experience preferred
• Experience with EPIC Willow and Beacon highly preferred
• Analytical skills to collect information from diverse sources, and summarize the information and data to solve problems or design relatively complex systems and programs

Licensure/Certification

• Massachusetts pharmacist license, or Massachusetts pharmacy intern license is required; Massachusetts pharmacist intern license holders must obtain pharmacist licensure within the first 90 days of employment.

$10,000 Sign On Bonus

This position is eligible for full-time benefits