Clinical Pharmacist, Inpatient Operations 32 hours, evening shift

Boston Children's Hospital; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 68,000 - 88,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible schedules

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Retirement plan

Tuition and license reimbursement

Generous time off

Job summary

Boston Children's Hospital seeks a licensed pharmacist to provide inpatient coverage in our operations area. This 32-hour position supports day/evening rotations and every fourth weekend, contributing to safe and effective patient care.

The role emphasizes medication order verification, drug information, patient education, and collaboration with the care team within our pediatric hospital environment. Massachusetts pharmacy licensure required, EPIC Willow/Beacon experience preferred.

Qualifications

• Massachusetts pharmacist license or Massachusetts pharmacy intern license; interns must obtain licensure within 90 days of employment.
• Inpatient pharmacy experience and ability to interpret and evaluate medication orders.
• Ability to provide drug information and educate patients and staff.

Responsibilities

• Oversee controlled substances distribution and non-sterile compounding oversight.
• Review, fill, and dispense physician medication orders.
• Verify orders prepared by staff and ensure correct labeling and preparation.
• Provide drug information and patient education; document medication histories.
• Participate in quality improvement activities and supervise support personnel.

Skills

Attention to detail

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in pharmacy

Doctorate 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
• cell phone plan discounts and discounted rates on T-passes.

Experience the benefits of passion and teamwork.