Per Diem - Clinical Pharmacist

Boston Children’s Hospital; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 89,000 - 114,000; Full time

Job summary

Boston Children’s Hospital’s Department of Pharmacy seeks a Per Diem pharmacist to support inpatient operations. The role emphasizes safe drug use, timely dispensing, and collaboration with clinicians in a busy hospital environment.

Responsibilities include reviewing orders for appropriate drug and dose, providing drug information, educating patients, and overseeing support staff in accordance with procedures. Massachusetts licensure is required or eligibility.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in pharmacy is required; Doctorate preferred.
• Analytical skills to interpret and evaluate medication orders for appropriate drug and dosage.
• Experience in hospital pharmacy and EPIC Willow/Beacon systems is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Interpreting and evaluating medication orders to ensure drug and dosage are appropriate and to identify adverse reactions; contact physician as needed.
• Reviewing, filling and dispensing physician medication orders/prescriptions.
• Providing drug information as a subject matter expert and patient education.
• Completing medication history documentation and participating in quality improvement activities.
• Supervising support personnel and ensuring proper preparation and distribution of medications.

Skills

Clinical pharmacy

Medication order review

Patient education

Quality improvement

Education

Bachelor's degree in pharmacy

Doctorate degree in pharmacy

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 Per Diem 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.