Clinical Pharmacist, Inpatient Operations 32 hours, evening shift

Boston Children's Hospital; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible schedules

Health, vision and dental insurance

403(b) Retirement Savings plan

Tuition and Certification Reimburse

Job summary

Boston Children's Hospital is seeking a pharmacist for inpatient operations, covering a 32-hour week. The role emphasizes accurate medication orders, patient education, and collaboration with the care team.

The position requires Massachusetts pharmacist licensure (or intern) and pediatric-related experience. The department offers comprehensive benefits and rotating day/evening shifts with every fourth weekend.

Qualifications

• Analytical skills to collect information from diverse sources, apply professional principles to analyses and solve problems.
• Hospital pharmacist experience preferred.
• Experience with EPIC Willow and Beacon highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Controlled substances distribution and non-sterile compounding oversight; inventory functions oversight and discharge prescriptions.
• Interpret and evaluate medication orders to ensure appropriate drug and dosage; contact physician as needed.
• Reviewing, filling and dispensing physician orders/prescriptions.
• Checking orders/prescriptions filled by support personnel; verify correct preparation and labeling.
• Providing drug information as subject matter expert.
• Providing patient education.
• Completing medication history documentation.
• Performing quality improvement activities.
• Supervising support personnel and ensuring procedures and protocols are followed.

Skills

Analytical skills

Hospital pharmacist experience

EPIC Willow and Beacon

Pediatric pharmacy experience

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 32-hour pharmacist 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.

This position is eligible for full-time benefits

This is a day/eve rotating weekend shift position (1 eve/week 2:30PM -3PM start, every 4th weekend)

The posted pay range is Boston Children's reasonable and good-faith expectation for this pay at the time of posting.

Any base pay offer provided depends on skills, experience, education, certifications, and a variety of other job-related factors. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive benefits package that includes flexible schedules, affordable health, vision and dental insurance, child care and student loan subsidies, generous levels of time off, 403(b) Retirement Savings plan, Pension, Tuition and certain License and Certification Reimbursement, employee discounts and discounted commuter benefits at certain locations. Experience the benefits of passion and teamwork.