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El Camino Health
Mountain View, California

Pharmacist - PD - Days - Pharmacy @ MV

PharmacistNo nightsPer Diem

Listed compensation

$103.94-$122.36/hr

The week · per this posting

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Posted 26m ago · Verified live

Job Description

El Camino Health is committed to hiring, retaining and growing the best and brightest professionals who will carry our mission and vision forward. We are proud of our reputation in the community: One built on compassion, innovation, collaboration and delivering high-quality care. Come join the team that makes this happen.

Applicants MUST apply for position(s) by submitting a separate application for each individual job posting number they are interested in being considered for.

  • FTE
  • 0
  • Scheduled Bi-Weekly Hours
  • 0

Work Shift

Day: 8 hours

Job Description

To provide quality pharmaceutical services to inpatients, outpatients, employees and the general public. To provide education, information, and advice to physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals on the use, selection, dosage, and administration of medications. To effectively supervise support personnel.

To oversee and precept pharmacy students and residents ensuring they have a valuable educational experience while guiding them towards competence in providing compassionate, safe and effective pharmaceutical care to patients.

Key Responsibilities

Under direction and subject to state and federal laws and regulations and professional practice standards governing the practice of pharmacy in the State of California, to select, prepare, distribute, dispense, and monitor drugs, chemicals, solutions, and materials for medical and scientific use; to functionally direct supportive personnel involved in the above activities; to provide clinical expertise and judgments necessary for proper utilization, administration, and monitoring of medications in cooperation with the medical and nursing staff; and to provide patient counseling and medication education services to multidisciplinary team of healthcare providers including pharmacy students and residents.

Qualifications

Pharm. D degree from an accredited college of pharmacy.

  • ASHP Accredited Postgraduate Year 1 Residency (PGY1)
  • License/Certification/Registration Requirements
  • Current California pharmacist license

Salary Range

$103.94 - $122.36 USD Hour

The Physical Requirements and Working Conditions of this job are available. El Camino Health will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with a disability if that will allow them to perform the essential functions of a job unless doing so creates an undue hardship for the hospital, or causes a direct threat to these individuals or others in the workplace which cannot be eliminated by reasonable accommodation.

Light Work - Walking or standing up to 49% of shift, duties require standard movement, may occasionally lift up to 20 lbs. - (Physical Requirements-United States of America)

An Equal Opportunity Employer

El Camino Health seeks and values a diverse workforce. The organization is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of qualifications and competencies.

El Camino Health prohibits discrimination in employment based on race, ancestry, national origin, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, marital status, age, medical condition or any other status protected by law.

In addition to state and federal law, El Camino Health also follows all applicable fair and equitable employment policies from the County of Santa Clara.

Qualifications

Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Medication administrationSupervisionPreceptingDrug monitoringDispensingPharmacy operations

Pharmacist Career Context

Of the 40 active Pharmacy listings this role was benchmarked against, 30% are remote, 48% have no call, 65% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for California is 110.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$235k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $213k in an average-cost state. 63.6% of California clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks24 jobs

401k / retirement match
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CME allowance
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Sign-on bonus
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Work-life snapshot

median 2.8this job 5.1
Better work-life than 80% of Pharmacy listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 10,286 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

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Living in Mountain View

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$2.08M
Typical market rent
$4,536/mo
Residents’ average commute
23 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
110.4
State income tax
Up to 13.3%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.