Clinical Pharmacist, Inpatient Operations, every/other weekend

Boston Children's Hospital
$23616.32-$37787.36 Annual
dental insurance, 403(b)
United States, Massachusetts, Boston
Jun 16, 2026
Position Summary The Clinical Pharmacist, Inpatient Operations (Every Other Weekend Shift) is responsible for delivering comprehensive pharmaceutical care that promotes safe, effective, and patient-centered medication use within the hospital setting. This role reviews, interprets, verifies, and dispenses medication orders to ensure appropriate therapy, identifies and resolves potential medication-related concerns in collaboration with prescribers, and oversees controlled substance distribution, non-sterile compounding, inventory management, discharge prescriptions, and daily medication supply processes. The Clinical Pharmacist serves as a medication expert by providing drug information and patient education, completing medication history documentation, supporting quality improvement initiatives, and supervising pharmacy support personnel to ensure medications are prepared and distributed accurately and in accordance with established policies, procedures, and regulatory standards. Working every other weekend, this position plays a vital role in maintaining continuity of pharmacy operations and delivering exceptional patient care in a collaborative inpatient environment. 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. Inpatient hospital pharmacist experience highly preferred. 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. 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 is an every-other-weekend position, shift flexibility ideal. This position is not benefits eligible. 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.