Pharmacist - Per Diem

Shriners Children's; California; On-site; USD 91,000 - 136,000; Full time

Job summary

Shriners Children’s is seeking a pharmacist to provide distributive, clinical, consultative, and research pharmaceutical services in a pediatric burn, orthopedic, and rehabilitation hospital. You will operate as part of an interdisciplinary team to ensure safe and effective medication use for children up to 18 years old.

The role requires CA licensure and PALS within 6 months, with on-site duties and potential collaboration across inpatient and outpatient settings.

Qualifications

• CA pharmacy license is required.
• PALS certification within 6 months of hire.

Responsibilities

• Ensures proper technique to prepare medications for dispensing.
• Accepts, verifies, and transmits prescription orders from prescribers.
• Screens prescriptions for appropriateness (drug, dosage, form, indication, route).
• Compounds, fills, and dispenses medications in compliance with standards and laws; verifies doses and contents.
• Supervises and instructs volunteers, technicians, interns, and colleagues.
• Participates in Quality Assurance and Pharmacy and Therapeutics activities including drug utilization reviews and formulary updates.
• Maintains and documents services and records as required by law.

Skills

Prescription verification

Drug dispensing

Interdisciplinary teamwork

Education

CA Pharmacy License

Job description

Company Overview

Shriners Children's is an organization that respects, supports, and values each other. Named as the 2025 best mid-sized employer by Forbes, we are engaged in providing excellence in patient care, embracing multi-disciplinary education, and research with global impact. We foster a learning environment that values evidenced based practice, experience, innovation, and critical thinking. Our compassion, integrity, accountability, and resilience define us as leaders in pediatric specialty care for our children and their families.

With 20+ hospitals, outpatient clinics, ambulatory care centers and outreach locations across the globe, we provide excellent care to children up to age 18 regardless of their family's ability to pay or insurance status. Please click here to learn more about our locations.

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Job Description

To provide distributive, clinical, consultative, and research pharmaceutical services in a pediatric burn, orthopedic, and rehabilitation hospital; to function as a member of an interdisciplinary team.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensures that the appropriate technique is used to prepare medications to be dispensed for patient administration
• Accepts, verifies, and transmits written, verbal, telephone, or computer-entered prescription orders from prescribers.
• Screens all prescriptions and drug orders for appropriateness (i.e.- drug, dosage form, dose, indication, route, and incompatibilities,).
• Compounds or fills and dispenses medications in compliance with institutional standards, laws, and accepted standard of practice. When a technician or intern is involved in the process, independently calculates or evaluates the dose and checks the accuracy of contents of all ingredients (including syringes) and the final product.
• Assists in the supervision and instruction of volunteers, technicians, intern pharmacists, and colleagues.
• Participates in Quality Assurance and Pharmacy and Therapeutics related committees (i.e. Assists in drug utilization reviews, target drug programs, formulary revision, quality assurance, and development of guidelines and protocols for drug use.).
• Maintains and documents services and records as required by law, including workload statistics, narcotic inventory and control, and nursing unit inspection records.

Required Qualifications

• Pharmacy license in CA
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) within 6 months

Preferred Qualifications

• 3 Years (inpatient and outpatient)
• 3 Years Pediatric Critical Care, Surgical or Orthopedic

The pay range for this position is $65.92 - 98.88/hour.

Compensation is determined based on years of relevant experience and departmental equity.